Cliopatria Welcomes Rachel Leow

Cliopatria is pleased to welcome Rachel Leow to its circle. Originally from Malaysia, she is, at 22, Cliopatria's youngest member. At 16, she won the International Herald Tribune Journalist Challenge Award with an essay on globalization, which was published in the IHT in 2002. She received a B.A. with honours in Modern European History from Warwick University, graduating first in her class. Subsequently, Rachel took an M. Phil. in Historical Studies at Cambridge University, and is now a Cambridge Gates Scholar and doctoral candidate specializing in Southeast Asian history.

With Dr. Farish A. Noor, Rachel is co-editing A Women's History of Malaysia: Essays and Articles on Women's History of Malaysia, from the Pre-Colonial Era to the Present. She is also an editor of The Cicak, an independent Malaysian socio-political e-zine. Rachel writes personally at idlethink, and academically at the more recent A Historian's Craft on history matters. Cliopatria's delighted to welcome Rachel Leow.