Ivan Kwek is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, NUS. Trained as a media anthropologist at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Univ. of London), and with a prior background as a TV current affairs and documentary producer, Ivan has worked on the ethnography of media production at Suria, the minority Malay-language television channel in Singapore. His research remains focused on the so-called Malay worlds as they relate to, not just media and ethnicity, but also spaces, memories, and future-making. As an educator, he has taught visual ethnography and visual culture, race and ethnicity, media and popular culture, art and cultural production as well as the gateway module to the newly launched Anthropology major.