Hanafi Hussin is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya.  He has received his PhD in Cultural and Performing Arts Studies.  His main focus of research is in the anthropology of Southeast Asia, particularly on ritual and performing arts. He actively researches and publishes on rituals and identity of Kadazandusun community of Sabah particularly in Penmpang and Tuaran Sabah and Bajau and Bajau Laut/Sama Dilaut of the east coast of Borneo and Southern Philippines. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts (2022-2024) and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2016-2018). He was also served as Head of Maritime Community, Law, Policy and Governance Unit, Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences (IOES), Head, Universiti Malaya Cultural and Heritage Research Centre (UMCHRC), and Head of Universiti Malaya Migration Research Centre (UMMRC), University of Malaya. He can be reached at hanafih@um.edu.my.