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Dr. Hongxuan Lin, who defended his dissertation “Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915–1959" in Winter 2020, has won the Graduate School’s 2020 Distinguished Dissertation Award (category: Humanities & Fine Arts). His committee consisted of Laurie Sears (Chair), Christoph Giebel, and Vince Rafael. Dr. Lin is currently an adjunct lecturer at the National University of Singapore and will begin a postdoctoral term at London School of Economics and Political Science in 2021.