Biography
Associate Professor Dr Awang Azman Awang Pawi is an academician at the Department of Sociocultural, Academy of Malay Studies, University of Malaya. He is also a research fellow at the University of Malaya Center for Democracy and Elections (UMCEDEL). He has received a PhD in Malay Studies and has been involved in Malay Studies for more than 20 years in area studies, including Malay sociocultural and heritage, political culture and literature. His research grants include the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, Ministry of Higher Education (FRGS) from the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), Astro Awani Grant, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Yayasan Sarawak and others. He has been a Visiting Scholar at The Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS University of Leiden, Netherlands and at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences). He has also received frequent travel grants and international workshops from the Toyota Foundation, SEASREP and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Global Network, International Institute for Cultural Studies & National Chiao Tung University, University System of Taiwan, and Friedrich Naumann Foundation. He has been a reviewer for various grants and journal articles local and abroad from, to name a few, the USAID/OTI Malaysia Program - Malaysia Reform Initiative (MARI) and Round Table - the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and in the board of Journal of The Malaysian Parliament. In addition, he has been a columnist for Utusan Sarawak and Sin Chew Daily and is also a member of EUROSEAS (European Association For South East Studies) and SEALG (Southeast Asia Library Group).
