Rachel Leow is Associate Professor of Modern East Asian History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She took up her lectureship at Cambridge in 2013 after a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University as Prize Fellow in Economics, Politics and History. She holds a PhD in History and an MPhil in Historical Studies from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. She is the author of Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia.
