Fadzilah Yahaya
@nfyahaya.bsky.social
Historian at Yale
Book - Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia (Cornell UP, 2020) | Second book on and reclamation in British Empire (under review) | Currently writing third book on history of petroleum in Indonesia
Book - Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia (Cornell UP, 2020) | Second book on and reclamation in British Empire (under review) | Currently writing third book on history of petroleum in Indonesia
Happening today at American Society for Legal History conference in Detroit!
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Happening today at American Society for Legal History conference in Detroit!
My fave Dutch words are 'oliemonopolie' and 'pompoen.'
August 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
My fave Dutch words are 'oliemonopolie' and 'pompoen.'
I will be speaking on September 10 on my current book project on History of Land Reclamation in the British Empire at the Council on Southeast Asian Studies at Yale. macmillan.yale.edu/southeast-as...
Nurfadzilah Yahaya- "British Hydrocolonialism in Southeast Asia"
Wed, Sep 10 2025, 12 - 1pm | Across the British Empire, from the Caribbean to Hong Kong, colonial engineers perfected the art of manufacturing new territories from dredged sand and legal precedent, cr...
macmillan.yale.edu
August 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I will be speaking on September 10 on my current book project on History of Land Reclamation in the British Empire at the Council on Southeast Asian Studies at Yale. macmillan.yale.edu/southeast-as...
I've had three tweets go viral in my life but this is the one I'm proudest of.
July 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I've had three tweets go viral in my life but this is the one I'm proudest of.
Very excited to teach History of Southeast Asia (graduate seminar) and History of Indian Ocean Crossings again this Fall!
July 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Very excited to teach History of Southeast Asia (graduate seminar) and History of Indian Ocean Crossings again this Fall!
Super excited for this book by the outstanding Durba Mitra!
Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
press.princeton.edu
June 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Super excited for this book by the outstanding Durba Mitra!
Reposted by Fadzilah Yahaya
And we're back! My latest in the Chronicle is now live: "How to Promote Your Scholarly Book," ft Libra-coded advice such as "use social media" & "or don't use social media." No doubt other publishers will have lots of tidbits to add. Pls share/reach out for a PDF. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
Advice | How to Promote Your Scholarly Book
An acquisitions editor offers eight tips for marketing-shy academics.
www.chronicle.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
And we're back! My latest in the Chronicle is now live: "How to Promote Your Scholarly Book," ft Libra-coded advice such as "use social media" & "or don't use social media." No doubt other publishers will have lots of tidbits to add. Pls share/reach out for a PDF. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
Join me in Chicago for LSA @lawandsociety.bsky.social annual conference on 5/23. I will talk about how field of Law & Society has impacted discipine of History. ww3.aievolution.com/lsa2501/Even...
May 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Join me in Chicago for LSA @lawandsociety.bsky.social annual conference on 5/23. I will talk about how field of Law & Society has impacted discipine of History. ww3.aievolution.com/lsa2501/Even...
Ramadan mubarak! 🌙
March 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Ramadan mubarak! 🌙
Op-Ed by Sunil Amrith www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...
Opinion | War Is Killing The Planet (Gift Article)
In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn driver of planetary harm.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Op-Ed by Sunil Amrith www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...
Reposted by Fadzilah Yahaya
Another Hurst Institute for Legal History will be happening this coming summer here in Madison, Wisc., co-sponsored by the UW Law School & ASLH. Applications are due Jan.15, 2025. A great tradition & one-of-a-kind experience for junior scholars. Please apply! www.law.wisc.edu/hurst-instit...
Hurst Institute Applications | University of Wisconsin Law SchoolSite iconsUniversity logo that links to main university websitefacebooktwitteryoutubelinkedininstagramUW Crest
www.law.wisc.edu
November 24, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Another Hurst Institute for Legal History will be happening this coming summer here in Madison, Wisc., co-sponsored by the UW Law School & ASLH. Applications are due Jan.15, 2025. A great tradition & one-of-a-kind experience for junior scholars. Please apply! www.law.wisc.edu/hurst-instit...
Honored and grateful for high level of engagement on two chapters on my second book project at University of Michigan and Stanford this past month! If you could workshop chapters while writing, please do. Such a critical boost during writing process.
November 17, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Honored and grateful for high level of engagement on two chapters on my second book project at University of Michigan and Stanford this past month! If you could workshop chapters while writing, please do. Such a critical boost during writing process.