Dr. Hanafi Bin Hussin
Department of South East Asian Studies
University of Malaya
Malaysia
Biography
Hanafi Hussin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya. He holds the MA in Southeast Asian Studies with a thesis entitled “The Development of Philippine Political Theatre During Marcos Regime, 1969-1972”, and he received his PhD in Performing Arts Studies from the Academy of Malay Studies, University of Malaya in 2007. His main focus of research in the performing arts of Southeast Asia encompasses ritual and identity mainly with Kadazandusun of Penampang and the Lotud Dusun community of Tuaran in the state of Sabah. He also conducting research on ritual and performing arts of the maritime communities of Southeast Asia mainly Sama Dilaut of east coast of Borneo and Southern Philippines. Currently he serve as Deputy Dean (Undergraduate Studies) of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and as Head of Maritime Culture and Geopolitics Unit, Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences (IOES), University of Malaya.
Research Interest
Southeast Asian Culture-Performing Arts
Publications
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Hyung Jung, Kim & Hanafi Hussin. 2015. South Korea-Malaysia Relations: Political and Economic Interactions on the Perspectives of Bilateralism and Regionalism. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press.
