Timothy began his undergraduate studies in the astronomical sciences before pivoting into history. Since then he has been working as an administrative assistant for the department before joining their 2021 graduate cohort as an MA student.

Timothy is looking into editorial comics published in the 1920s and 1930s British Malaya to examine the ways understandings and imaginings of community and race were expressed and argued for. Through a comparative examination of the comics across the different languages and communities they were produced in, he will contend with the intersections of race, community, class, and capitalism in the construction of identities under the British colonial regime.

John Roosa