Rate My Professor Wen-Qing Ngoei

Wen-Qing Ngoei is an Associate Professor of History in the College of Integrative Studies at Singapore Management University. He specialises in the history of U.S. foreign relations and international affairs, with a focus on U.S.-Southeast Asia relations, the global Cold War, empire, and decolonisation. He received his PhD in History from Northwestern University in 2015 and his MA in History from the same institution in 2010. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the National Institute of Education, Singapore (2002) and a BA with Honors in English from the National University of Singapore (2000). Prior to joining SMU in 2020, Ngoei served as Assistant Professor in the History Program at Nanyang Technological University from 2016 to 2019. He has held postdoctoral positions at Northwestern University and Yale University.

His major publication is the book Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2019). His articles have appeared in Diplomatic History, the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, International Journal, and The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War. Ngoei has received fellowships and awards including the Global and Diversity Scholars Fellowship from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2018-19), the Lacey Baldwin Smith Prize for Teaching Excellence from Northwestern University (2016), and the Henry Chauncey ’57 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University (2016). He serves as Associate Dean (External Engagement) in the College of Integrative Studies at SMU. His current research examines intersections between diplomatic history and culture in Singapore-superpower relations from the Cold War to the present.