Dr Fabian Charles Graham is an alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He joined the Religion and Globalization research cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore in December 2018 and left in December 2022. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, and two master's degrees, one in 'Taiwan Studies' from National Chengchi University in Taipei and the second in 'Social Anthropological Analysis' from the University of Cambridge.Previously a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Germany, based on research in Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan, his first monograph 'Voices from the Underworld: Hell deity worship in contemporary Singapore and Malaysia' was published by Manchester University Press in 2020, an updated and revised paperback edition retitled 'Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan' was released in 2022.See: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B09F2J8N7N/aboutOutside of academia, Fabian Graham has also been a traveler since the age of fourteen when he went on his first solo trip cycling from Wales to London in the summer holidays. After interrailing and backpacking around Europe for almost a year, his adventures took him on an overland trip from London to Nairobi, Kenya. Unable to stop, he visited Sri Lanka at the height of the civil war, and then India and Nepal before finally making it to Southeast Asia which he loves. He paid for his travels busking, teaching English and then by designing, making and selling his own style of jewelry. He also holds a BA in Jewelry Design from Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design, London (1997)Apart from travel, spirituality, photography and art, all of which he loves, his academic research interests have included the anthropology of Chinese religion; spirit possession / mediumship; temple ritual, material culture and museum archaeology; Southeast Asian 19th and 20th century history; the invention, inversion and reinterpretation of tradition; visual anthropology; and new ethnographic, narrational and analytical approaches to the study of religious phenomenon and experiences.
