Thomas Barker

Thomas Barker is an honorary associate professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University and formerly head of school and associate professor at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. He has held visiting positions at UCLA, National Chengchi University, Universitas Indonesia, and the National University of Singapore. In 2019 he was an Asia Research Scholar at the National Library of Australia.

He researches and writes on topics in cultural sociology focussing on the Southeast Asia screen industries, including on creative migration, censorship and regulation, Islamic pop culture, and streaming platforms.