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Faizah Zakaria

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Faizah Zakaria is assistant professor of history at Nanyang Technological University. Her research and teaching interests are in the fields of religious and environmental histories of modern Southeast Asia, with focus on conversions, sustainability, and environmental justice. Her forthcoming book, Spiritual Anthropocene: Religious Conversions in Maritime Southeast Asian Uplands, is under contract with University of Washington Press. She received a Ph.D. in history from Yale in 2018.

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