Nyi Nyi Kyaw

Overview

Nyi Nyi Kyaw is a fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI)/Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Germany. He is also an honorary fellow at Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the University of Melbourne. After obtaining his PhD in international and political studies from the University of New South Wales, he was a postdoctoral research fellow and assistant professor (adjunct) at the National University of Singapore in 2016–18 and 2020, respectively. He was affiliated with the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore as a visiting fellow from June 2019 until December 2020. Nyi Nyi has published papers in peer-reviewed journals including Social Identities, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, and Review of Faith & International Affairs, and book chapters on citizenship, nationalism and constitutional change in Myanmar, among other topics. He is currently working on a manuscript on Myanmar Spring.