Rate My Professor Timothy Barnard

Timothy P. Barnard is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He teaches introductory modules on Asian History in addition to upper-level modules focusing on the Malay World, Environmental History, and Film. His research specializations include environmental history, Southeast Asia, and the Malay World. Barnard has published books such as Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942 (NUS Press, 2019) and Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City (NUS Press, 2024). He also edited Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore (NUS Press, 2014). His scholarship examines human-animal relations and environmental changes in colonial and contemporary Singapore, contributing to broader understandings of regional environmental and cultural history.