Keat Gin Ooi PJK (Penang) | |||||||||||||||
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| 黃吉仁 | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 October 1959 | ||||||||||||||
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| Notable work | Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Beh Swee Im (m. 2002) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sub-discipline | Women's history, history of Southeast Asia, war studies, underwater archaeology, and history of Borneo and Brunei | ||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 黄吉仁 | ||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 黃吉仁 | ||||||||||||||
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Keat Gin Ooi (Chinese: 黃吉仁; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ûiⁿ Kiat-jîn; pinyin: Huáng Jírén;[1] born 10 October 1959) is Malaysian academician, historian and educator of Chinese descent who is a professor at the Modern History of Brunei/Borneo in Universiti Brunei Darussalam's Academy of Brunei Studies. He is an expert in the following fields: women in history, Southeast Asian history, war and conflict, indigenous historical sources, underwater archaeology, underwater cultural heritage, modern history and historiography of Borneo, Brunei history, colonial urban history, Borneo in international history.[2]
Throughout Europe, the Americas, Australasia, South, East, and Southeast Asia, Ooi has established a sizeable professional network. He has been a visiting lecturer and recipient of fellowships from institutions in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Japan. He has worked as a professional reviewer for several journals in addition to publishing with prestigious publishers as USM, Oxford, Palgrave Macmillan, and Routledge.[3]