
Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL DETAILS
DR. RUSASLINA BINTI IDRUS
Senior Lecturer
- Gender Studies
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences - rusaslina@um.edu.my
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
(Role),(Level),(Duration)
(Role),(Level),(Duration)
- Panel Penilai dan Penasihat, UMCARES, University Malaya, 01/08/2015 to 31/07/2017
- PROGRAMME COORDINATOR, Faculty, 07/07/2014 to 31/08/2016
- Ahli Jawatankuasa Kualiti Fakulti Sastera dan Sains Sosial, Faculty, 01/03/2013 to 28/02/2015
- Ahli Jawatankuasa, Jawatankuasa Penyelidikan, Penerbitan, Persidangan dan Perundingan, Faculty, 01/02/2013 to 31/01/2014
- Ahli Jawatankuasa Semakan Kurikulum Rancangan Pengajian Gender, Faculty, 04/12/2013 to present
- Auditor, Audit Dalaman Universiti, University Malaya, 06/05/2013 to 23/09/2013
- Ahli Jawatankuasa, Jawatankuasa Ijazah Dasar, Faculty, 15/01/2013 to present
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
(Qualification),(Field),(Institution),(Year)
(Qualification),(Field),(Institution),(Year)
- PhD (Social Anthropology), ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY(SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY), HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE
- MA (Anthropology), ANTHROPOLOGY(ANTROPOLOGI), HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE
- MEnvSc (Ecology & Development), SOCIAL SCIENCES(SOCIAL ECOLOGY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT), UNIVERSITY OF YALE, NEW HAVEN
- BSc (Natural Resource Management), SCIENCE(NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT), CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA
MEMBERSHIPS
(Organisation),(Role),(Duration),(Level)
(Organisation),(Role),(Duration),(Level)
- National Chiao Tung University, Consultant, 2018 to 2019 (International)
- Indonesia and the Malay World, Article Reviewer, 2018 to 2019 (International)
- Institut Wanita Berdaya, Consultant, 2018 to 2018 (University)
- UMCARES, Fellow, 2018 to 2018 (University)
SPECIALIZATION
(Area)
(Area)
Area of Expertise
TEACHING
(Course Title),(Level of Study),(Institution),(Academic Session)
(Course Title),(Level of Study),(Institution),(Academic Session)
Teaching
PUBLICATIONS
(Title of publication in APA style)
(Title of publication in APA style)
WoS
2021
- Idrus, Rusaslina (2021). The Refugee Festival: Power and Hope in the Face of Precarity, SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY. 120(3), 677-683. doi:10.1215/00382876-9155395
Scopus
2022
- Idrus R. (2022). Competing for the 'Indigenous' Slot: Layered Histories and Positionings in Peninsular Malaysia, Sojourn. 37(1), 58-84. doi:10.1355/sj37-1c
2021
- Idrus, R., Man, Z., Williams-Hunt, A., & Chopil, T. Y. (2021). Indigenous resilience and the COVID-19 response: a situation report on the Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia. AlterNative, 17(3), 439-443. doi: 10.1177/11771801211038723
ESCI
2021
- Douangphachanh, M., Idrus, R., Phommavong, S., & Jaquet, S. (2021). AGRICULTURE TRANSITION AND WOMEN'S DECISION-MAKING POWER IN COFFEE-FARMING HOUSEHOLDS IN LAO PDR. Jati-Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 26(1), 49-71. doi: 10.22452/jati.vol26no1.3
Refereed Journals
2019
- Idrus, R. 2019. The Forgotten Voters: the Orang Asli in the Malaysia Baru. New Mandala: ANU. 29 May 2019. (Non-WoS/Non-SCOPUS)
2018
- Rusaslina Idrus. 2018. Becoming Arab: Creole histories and modern identity in the Malay world (Book review). Kajian Malaysia 36(2): 165 167. https://doi.org/10.21315/ km2018.36.2.8 (SCOPUS)
2016
- Idrus, R. Book review: Temiar Religion, 1964-2012: Enchantment, Disenchantment and Re-enchantment in Malaysia's Uplands, Singapore: NUS Press by Geoffrey Benjamin. Asian Journal of Social Science. (WoS)
- Idrus, Rusaslina, 2016. Book review: Humanizing the Sacred: Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia by Azza Basaruddin. Contemporary Southeast Asia. Vol 38 (3):546-48 (WoS)
- Idrus, Rusaslina. The Multicultural Hang Tuah: Cybermyth and Popular History Making in Malaysia. Indonesia and The Malay World. (17 February 2016) (WoS)
2011
- Idrus, R, 2011, The Discourse of Protection and the Orang Asli in Malaysia, in Kajian Malaysia, Vol. 29, No.1, Special Issue, Abdul Rahman Embong and Chin Yee Whah, Eds. Pp. 53-74 (SCOPUS)
- Idrus, R, 2011, Review of Leaves of the Same Tree by Leonard Andaya, Sojourn. October 2011. Pp 345-348.
- Idrus, R, 2011, Review of Submitting to God: Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia by Slyva Frisk, American Anthropologist, Pp 672-673 (WoS)
2010
- Idrus, R. 2010, Indigenous Rights and Citizenship in Malaysia, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Vol.33, No.1, May 2010, pp. 89-108 (WoS)
- Idrus, R, 2010, Invited commentary to "Indigeneity, Capitalism, and Countermovements" by Tania Li, Current Anthropology, Vol.51, No.3, June 2010, Pp.403-404 (WoS)
Book
2018
Book Chapter
2015
- Thambiah, Shanthi; Zanisah Man; Rusaslina Idrus. 2015. Orang Asli Women Negotiating Education and Identity: Creating a Vision of the Self with Socially Available Possibilities. Edited by Kirk Endicott, NUS Press
2014
- Idrus, Rusaslina (2014), "Transforming the Orang Asli Development Policy" in Transforming Malaysia: Ideas for the Next Decade, Sanchita Basu and Lee Poh Onn, Eds. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
2013
- Idrus, R. 2013. Left Behind: Orang Asli under the New Economic Policy in The New Economic Policy in Malaysia: Affirmative Action, Ethnic Inequality and Social Justice. Eds.Terence Gomez and Johan Saravanamuttu, SIRD, NUS Press and ISEAS Publication.
- Idrus, R. 2013. Hang Tuah Revisited, in Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity, Barker et al. Eds. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
2011
- Idrus, R., 2011, Malays and Orang Asli: Contesting Indigeneity in Melayu: Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Race, Maznah Mohamad and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied, Eds. Singapore: NUS Press
1999
- Idrus, R. and J. Nais. 1999, Country paper-Malaysia in Collaborative Management of Protected Areas in the Asian Region Oli, Krishna Prasad, Ed. Kathmandu: IUCN Nepal.
Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,TV,Popular Magazine)
2013
- The great dog debate revisited, 4 August 2013. The Malaysian Insider.
- Keep calm and vote, 4 May 2013. Elections roundtable, Info Pilihanraya Malaysia.
- Time to listen to the people, 15 April 2013, Elections roundtable, Info Pilihanraya Malaysia.
2011
- Interview on Indigenous land rights court case in Sarawak. Channel News Asia. 28 April 2011.
2010
- A village's fight against 'drowning' by development, 14 August 2010, Straits Times (Singapore)
- This land is our land (Orang Asli land crisis), 6 May 2010, Malaysian Insider
- Basic human rights for the Orang Asli, 10 March 2010, Malaysian Insider
- Malaysia as a role model: what not to do, 15 Jan 2010, Malaysian Insider
RESEARCH PROJECT
(Project title),(Role),(Duration),(Level)
(Project title),(Role),(Duration),(Level)
High Impact Research (HIR)
SUPERVISION
Postgraduate Student
(Title of Thesis),(Name of Candidates),(Institution),(Academic Level)
(Title of Thesis),(Name of Candidates),(Institution),(Academic Level)
Ongoing
- GENDER DIVISION OF LABOUR AND WOMEN'S DECISION-MAKING POWER IN COFFEE FARMING HOUSEHOLDS IN SOUTHERN LAOS, MALIPHONE DOUANGPHACHANH, University of Malaya (UM) (Post Graduate Student)
- SINGLISM IN MALAYSIA: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES AND NEGOTIATING SINGLEHOOD ON SOCIAL MEDIA (PROPOSAL), TAN JENNY, University of Malaya (UM) (Post Graduate Student)
- MY TRUTH MAKES YOU UNCONFORTABLE: ASIAN AND AFRICAN YOUTH REVOLT AND RECLAIM THE BODY (PROPOSAL), GNEI MEGHANA BAHAR, University of Malaya (UM) (Post Graduate Student)
- A GENDER ANALYSIS OF FARMERS' AGROBIODIVERSITY CHOICES AND PARTICIPATION IN DECISION MAKING IN SOUTH WEST BANGLADESH: TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING EMPOWERMENT IN VULNERABILITY, DOROTHY CHANDRALEKHA A/P CHANDRABALAN, University of Malaya (UM) (Post Graduate Student)
- SINGLISM IN MALAYSIA: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES AND NEGOTIATING SINGLEHOOD ON SOCIAL MEDIA (PROPOSAL), TAN JENNY, University of Malaya (UM) (Post Graduate Student)
- MY TRUTH MAKES YOU UNCONFORTABLE: ASIAN AND AFRICAN YOUTH REVOLT AND RECLAIM THE BODY (PROPOSAL), GNEI MEGHANA BAHAR, University of Malaya (UM) (Post Graduate Student)
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ACTIVITIES
(Contribution to Society),(Duration),(Level)
(Contribution to Society),(Duration),(Level)
- Coordinator, Kedai Jalanan, 2022
- Board of Directors, Pusat Sejarah Rakyat, 04/08/2013 to 31/12/2017
- Coordinator and co-founder, Sejarah Wanita.org, 22/03/2013 to 31/12/2018
- Coordinator and Founder, Mari Kita Membaca, 01/09/2010 to 31/12/2017
AWARD AND STEWARDSHIP
(Name of Award/Stewardship),(Awarding Institution),(Year Awarded),(Type of Award)
(Name of Award/Stewardship),(Awarding Institution),(Year Awarded),(Type of Award)
- Sijil perkhidmatan cemerlang, UM, 2019 (SERVICES)
- Anugerah Cemerlang UM 2019-Hadiah Khas , Universiity Malaya, 2019 (SERVICES)
- Certificate of Excellent Service, University Malaya, 2017 (SERVICES)
- Anugerah Cemerlang Universiti Malaya- Ketegori Jalinan Masyarakat, University Malaya, 2017 (SERVICES)
- CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENT SERVICE, University of Malaya, 2017 (CERTIFICATE)
- The Star Golden Heart Award, The Star Foundation, 2016 (SERVICES)
- CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENT SERVICE, University of Malaya, 2016 (CERTIFICATE)