Biography
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Bridget Welsh is an Associate Professor in
Political Science at Singapore Management University where she teaches
courses on comparative politics, parties, political participation
gender and international relations. She received her doctorate from the
Department of Political Science at Columbia University, her MA from
Columbia University, language training (FALCON) from Cornell University
and BA from Colgate University.
She has edited Reflections: The Mahathir YearsLegacy
of Engagement in Southeast AsiaImpressions of the Goh Chok Tong
Years in Singapore (2009), and Transition or Transformation: Abdullah
Badawi's Tenure (2011 forthcoming). Democracy
Takeoff?: Reflections on the BJ Habibie Period is also forthcoming. She is currently working
on three books single authored books that include Beyond Ethnicity:
Malaysian Voting Behavior, How Malaysians Think About Politics and Reformasi
Elections in Malaysia as well as
an edited volume with Yun-han Chu and Alex Chang on regime support in Southeast
Asia with the Asia Barometer Project. In June 2011 she published on
Singapore’s 2011 General Election in Voting
in Change (edited by Kevin YL Tan and Terence Lee) and helped coordinate
the Merdeka Center poll during the campaign. She has also written numerous
articles on a range of issues from human rights in Southeast Asia, Islamic
Parties and Democracy to US-Southeast Asia relations and gender. She is a
contributor to malaysiakini, the leading news website in Malaysia. (2004), (2008),
She
is the Malaysia Director of the Asia Barometer Survey Project and in
collaboration with her colleagues in the project is co-editing a
manuscript examining attitudes toward regime resilience in Southeast
Asia. She is also working on ongoing projects examining Islamist
parties in Malaysia and Indonesia, vigilante violence in Indonesia, and
humanitarian conditions in Myanmar/Burma. Her dissertation at Columbia
University examined the relationship between state power, political
rights and revenue extraction in colonial Malaya. These projects
reflect a keen interest in democracy and development in Southeast Asia.
From 1997 to 2001 she taught political science at Hofstra
University in New York. In 2001 she joined the Southeast Asia Studies
program at the Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies
(SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. She joined the faculty of Singapore
Management University in July 2009. In 2004 she was a Henry R. Luce
Southeast Asian Fellow at the Australian National University. In 2006
she received a grant from the USIP to study Islamic political parties
in Southeast Asia. In 2009 she received the Max Fisher Teaching
Excellence Award at Johns Hopkins University. In 2011 she was nominated
for the Distinguished Teacher Award in the School of Social Sciences at
Singapore Management University. Bridget Welsh is the former Chair of
the Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Studies Group and a consultant to
Freedom House.
She had the fortunate experience of being raised abroad and
lived in South America, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Europe and
Southeast Asia. Her hobbies include travel, wine tasting, reading and
movies. She currently resides in Singapore, although is often on the
road conducting fieldwork in Southeast Asia.
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