Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Scholarship

  1. Macassan encounters shaped Aboriginal Islamic contact in northern Australia
    Explore how Macassan Muslim traders introduced Islam to Aboriginal Australians centuries before British colonisation, examining cultural syncretism and selective religious adoption among Yolŋu.
  2. Asian nursing service quality research centers on care, systems, and outcomes
    Systematic review of 1,271 articles examining nursing service quality research in Asia from 2004-2024, identifying key themes, antecedents, and future research directions.
  3. Experts validated an interdisciplinary AI engineering curriculum
    Learn how experts validated a comprehensive AI engineering curriculum design, balancing interdisciplinary education with practical implementation challenges in higher education.
  4. Off-balance-sheet finance reshapes green industrial policy in Europe
    How EU fiscal constraints drive off-balance-sheet financing in green industrial policy, enabled by techno-political coalitions bridging technical expertise and political influence.
  5. African multilingualism conflicts with imported language theories
    Decolonising African linguistics: critiquing Global North frameworks, exposing research extraction, and reclaiming multilingual realities distorted by colonial legacies
  6. A Research Course to Develop AI Tools for K–12 Learning
    University course integrating AI/ML software development with educational research training, producing tools for K-12 instruction through authentic school partnerships.
  7. Partisanship shapes support for deporting unauthorized immigrants
    Survey experiment reveals how partisan identity shapes deportation attitudes toward unauthorized immigrants based on sexual orientation and economic contributions.
  8. Black So Man's songs critique Burkina Faso's postcolonial failures
    Explore how Burkinabé artist Black So Man uses human constellations and affective language in his music to critique postcolonial state dysfunction and neocolonial exploitation in Burkina Faso.
  9. Designerly practices can help make the constitutive idea more available
    Designerly approaches to make the constitutive idea of law and social life accessible to scholars and wider audiences, addressing empirical, conceptual, and normative dimensions.
  10. Cultivating Reflective Islam
    Explore Ngaji Filsafat, a mosque-based philosophical study movement among young Muslims in Yogyakarta that challenges conventional Islamic engagement through reflective inquiry and intellectual.
  11. Reassessing Women’s Economic Agency Through the Lens of the Shariʿa Court Records: The Case of Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Tripoli
    Examine how eighteenth-century Ottoman Tripoli women actively engaged in economic transactions through shariʿa courts, challenging stereotypes of economic passivity through analysis of court records.
  12. Ukraine’s victory-oriented strategy was deemed unlikely to succeed
    Assesses structural feasibility of Ukraine's military victory strategy using frozen conflict analysis and counterfactual scenarios of Western military aid.
  13. Late-Soviet Moscow tied migrant inclusion to labor compliance
    Explore how Soviet Moscow managed migrant workers through labor-based citizenship conditionality, revealing socialist mechanisms that predate neoliberal governance practices and reshape migration.