The War Memoryscapes in Asia Project (WARMAP) brings together scholars from various disciplines and universities across the globe who all share an interest in the study of war remembrance in Asia in its various forms.
Dr. Mark R. Frost
Founder and Core Member of WARMAP
Associate Professor of Public History, University College London (UK)
Mark is a historian of Asia who for the last twenty years has specialized in transnational history writing. He is the author (with Yu-Mei Balasingamchow) of the award-winning Singapore: A Biography (2009, 2013) and of numerous articles which explore global connections in the Asia region. These have appeared in The American Historical Review, Past and Present, The English Historical Review, Modern Asian Studies, and The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. Most recently he co-edited, with Daniel Schumacher and Edward Vickers, Remembering Asia’s World War Two (2019).
Currently, he leads the ‘Living with Violent Heritage: Contests and coexistence in post-war Sri Lanka’ exchange (LiVHerE), which is part of the larger War Memoryscapes in Asia Partnership.
Mark has also worked as a museum designer, documentary filmmaker and series consultant. Between 2005 and 2007 he was Content Designer, Senior Scriptwriter and Senior Historical Consultant for the National Museum of Singapore’s award-winning History Gallery revamp (2006-2016). He also wrote and co-produced the television programmes I Remember the Fall of Singapore (2017) and the three-part Love in a Time of Change (2018). At present, he is completing a feature-length documentary that explores the rich history of counter-culture music in post-independence Singapore.
Email: m.frost@ucl.ac.uk
Dr. Daniel Schumacher
Core Member of WARMAP
Lecturer, Binational School of Education, University of Konstanz (DE)
Daniel is a historian who works at the intersection of the secondary and higher education sectors, training prospective teachers while researching transnational and public history. For the past decade, much of his research has focused on the commemoration of 20th-century war and conflict in East and Southeast Asia and its relationship with decolonization and globalization processes. He was a key investigator of the British Academy-sponsored "Writing the War in Asia Network", served as WARMAP’s Academic Network Facilitator and held fellowships at the Universities of Hong Kong (China) and Essex (UK) before joining the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 2020 to teach at its Binational School of Education.
Daniel’s research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Modern Asian Studies, History Compass, and Memory Studies. He co-edited the books Exhibiting the Fall of Singapore (with Stephanie Yeo, NMS, 2018) and Remembering Asia’s World War Two (with Mark R. Frost and Edward Vickers, Routledge, 2019) and co-authored a series of history school textbooks in Germany (Westermann Group, 2019-2022). He furthermore contributed his expertise to education companies in China and civil society projects in Europe. His current research interests also include digital education and history didactics.
Email: schum.dan@gmail.com
Professor Edward Vickers
Core Member of WARMAP
UNESCO Chair on Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship, Kyushu University, Japan
Edward began his career as a teacher and textbook author working in Hong Kong and Beijing before embarking on an academic career. After almost a decade at the Institute of Education in London (now part of UCL), he moved to Kyushu University in 2012. He is the author and editor of many books on the history and politics of education in contemporary Asia, including (with Zeng Xiaodong) Education and Society in Post-Mao China (2017), and (with Krishna Kumar) Constructing Modern Asian Citizenship (2015). He has also helped coordinate two major reports for UNESCO: Rethinking Schooling for the 21st Century (2017) and Reimagining Education (2022), both published by UNESCO's Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGIEP).
In addition to his work on education, Edward has written extensively on public history and the politics of identity in Asian societies. He co-edited (with Paul Morris and Naoko Shimazu) Imagining Japan in Postwar East Asia: identity politics, schooling and popular culture (2013) and (with Mark R. Frost and Daniel Schumacher) Remembering Asia's World War Two (2019). With Mark Frost, he co-edited a 2021 special issue of Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus on 'The Comfort Women as Public History', and with Shu-Mei Huang and Hyun Kyung Lee, he co-edited the 2022 volume, Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific: Difficult Heritage and the Transnational Politics of Colonial Nationalism (published by Hong Kong University Press).
Edward is currently collaborating with Mark Frost on the LIVHERE project, investigating the relationship between education, public history and conflict and peace in contemporary Sri Lanka. He is also working on a project examining the politics of education and public history relating to communities on the periphery of Chinese society.
Email: edvickers08@googlemail.com
Professor Tim Winter
Core Member of WARMAP
National University of Singapore
Tim Winter is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore and previously an Australian Research Council Professorial Future Felloww (Heritage Diplomacy and Belt and Road). Tim has published widely on heritage, development, urban conservation, and the international politics of heritage. He has previously worked with the World Bank, Getty Conservation Institute, and World Monuments Fund, and his recent books include The Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia and Shanghai Expo: An international forum on the future of cities, Geocultural Power: China’s Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty First Century (University of Chicago Press, 2019) and The Silk Road: Connecting histories and futures (Oxford University Press, 2022). As a member of WARMAP, Tim looks into the practices of war heritage diplomacy and its ramifications across Asia.
Neluni Tillekeratne
Project Manager of LiVHerE
Research Consultant
Neluni Tillekeratne has a multi-disciplinary background in development with a recurring focus on government reforms and post-war reconciliation. Neluni has served as a Co-National Director of Sri Lanka Unites, a youth movement advocating for grassroots reconciliation, and engaging withdiverse schools and communities across the country.
In 2019, she was awarded a Chevening Scholarship by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office to pursue an MSc. in Conflict, State-building and Development at the University of Birmingham (UK). Her current research interests include climate conflict's role in social dynamics in Sri Lanka. Neluni has worked with local government institutions in all 9 provinces of the country with a team which advocated for policy reforms on inclusive and participatory budgeting practices.
Hasini A. Haputhanthri
Project Manager of LiVHerE
Cultural Sociologist, Museologist, Sri Lanka
Hasini collaborates with a global network of researchers and practitioners on peace-building, education, arts and heritage management. Her publications include Shared Sanctities: Art and Architecture of Religious Confluence in Sri Lanka, Archive of Memory: Reflections of 70 years of Independence, and Museums, Memory and Identity Politics in Sri Lanka. She has also produced nine documentary films on multicultural heritage sites across the island and currently works with Thailand and Myanmar in documenting tangible and intangible heritage. She co-curates the digital initiative, the ‘World Art and Memory Museum’ a collaboration with 7 other countries.
Initially trained as a sociologist at Delhi University India and Lund University Sweden, Hasini later specialised in Oral History and Museum Anthropology at Columbia University New York. She has worked with several international and local organisations on peacebuilding in Sri Lanka for the past 15 years, most notably with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) where she lead the culture and conflict programme for 10 years. She speaks regularly on social inclusion, culture and heritage management issues on a variety of international platforms.
Dr. Hamzah Muzaini
Associate Member of WARMAP
Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore (SG)
Hamzah Muzaini is Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore (NUS). After obtaining his PhD (Geography) from Durham University (UK) in 2009, he has been Visiting Fellow with NUS and Assistant Professor in Cultural Geography at Wageningen University (the Netherlands). His research interest spans the politics of remembering and forgetting the Second World War in Singapore and Malaysia, representations within cultural theme parks in Southeast Asia, and the production and consumption of postcolonial migrant heritages(capes) in the Netherlands. He has published in internationally-refereed journals and also co-authored Contested Memoryscapes: The Politics of Second World War Commemoration in Singapore (with Brenda Yeoh, Routledge, 2016).
Email: seahm@nus.edu.sg
Toyah Horman
Website Coordinator and Content Producer
Toyah Horman is a program manager at the Australian Museum and Galleries Association, overseeing digitisation and training workshops in regional and community museums. Previously she has worked as a researcher in the areas of Cultural Heritage, Cultural Diplomacy and Digital Heritage at the University of Western Australia, LaSalle College of the Arts and Deakin University. Obtaining a Masters in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies she has been involved in a variety of projects, including at Melbourne Museum, Heritage Victoria, National Film and Sound Archive and the 'Kelabit Highlands Museum Project' (Sarawak, Malaysia). Toyah has participated in multiple WARMAP workshops, managed the development of the WARMAP platform and the production of the short films and podcasts featured on this website.
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