Dr Lena Tan

Lecturer

Lena received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2007. While completing her dissertation, she was a visiting lecturer at Mount Holyoke College. Her research interests include IR theory, constructivism, identity, decolonization, and the construction and constitution of the developing world in International Relations.

Publications include a book chapter on Indonesia's disengagement from East Timor and a co-edited reader on Asian politics. She is currently working on a book-length project on the role of metropolitan identities in twentieth century decolonization.