The first, and probably the only non-Muslim Malaysian with a PhD in Religion, specialising in Islam
According to the Asia-Europe Foundation website, Dr Patricia Martinez is an Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow for Religion & Culture, and Head of Intercultural Studies at the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya.
She is also the Head of the Intercultural Studies Research Hub.
She is the first non-Muslim Malaysian with a Ph.D specialising in Islam.
Her current research project is as the Malaysian collaborator of a multi-nation study on Ethnic and Religious Conflict and Peace-building Capacities in Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Nigeria.
She is on the International Board of Directors of the Islam and Pluralism Project, Indonesia, as well as a member of the International Advisory Council of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, Japan. Dr. Martinez has served as a consultant to UNICEF Indonesia in 2000-2 for a pilot education project to revise curricula to enable schoolchildren to deal with ethnic and religious difference.
She has been awarded a number of fellowships including at the East-West Center in Hawaii and a Fulbright Award at Stanford Univeristy, USA.
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Wow. Very interesting indeed!