Established in 2022, the College of Integrative Studies is SMU’s seventh School and plays a pivotal role in helping students traverse the disciplinary areas associated with the other SMU Schools – Accountancy, Business, Economics, Computing, Law and Social Sciences. The CIS is different in that it emphasises the importance of integrating ideas and perspectives across disciplines to derive new solutions in areas related to SMU’s Strategic Priorities. Its faculty members research on topics such as Computer Science, Economics, Environmental History, Geography, Law, and Urban Climate, amongst others. The College seeks to cultivate an environment conducive to intellectual exploration across academic disciplines and to bring their distinct disciplinary perspectives together to address modern challenges in today’s complex world.

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Submissions from 2021

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On aqueducts and anxiety: Water infrastructure, ruination, and a region-scaled Anthropocene imaginary, Sayd RANDLE

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Lethal, viral, global: The role of mobile media and the growing international scourge of fake news, Gordon Kuo Siong TAN, Sun Sun LIM, and Roy KHENG

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Russian logics and the culture of impossible: Part 1. recovering intelligentsia logics, Ksenia TATARCHENKO, Anya YERMAKOVA, and Liesbeth DE MOL

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Preparing workplaces for digital transformation: An integrative review and framework of multi-level factors, Brigid TRENERRY, Samuel CHNG, Yang WANG, Zainal SUHALIA, Sun Sun LIM, Han Yu LU, and Peng Ho OH

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ICTs and transnational householding: The double burden of polymedia connectivity for international ‘study mothers’, Yang WANG and Sun Sun LIM

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Nomadic life archiving across platforms: Hyperlinked storage and compartmentalized sharing, Yang WANG and Sun Sun LIM

Musing on national education in higher education, Aidan Marc WONG

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Online patriarchal bargains and social support: Struggles and strategies of unwed single mothers in China, Xiaoman ZHAO and Sun Sun LIM

Submissions from 2020

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Marriage migrants’ use of social media, Soontae AN, Sun Sun LIM, and Hannah LEE

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Singapore's climate action: It is time to be more ambitious, Winston T. L. CHOW News Article

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Screening Southeast Asia: Film, politics, and the emergence of the nation in postwar Southeast Asia, Darlene Machell ESPENA Book Chapter

Indigenous communities, ICT and rural development: Case studies in Tanzania and Sarawak, Malaysia, Terry Van GEVELT

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Evaluating human versus machine learning performance in classifying research abstracts, Yeow Chong GOH, Xin Qing CAI, Walter THESEIRA, Giovanni KO, and Khiam Aik KHOR Journal Article

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Impacts of green infrastructure on flood risk perceptions in Hong Kong, Seung Kyum KIM, Paul JOOSE, Mia M. BENNETT, and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Manufacturing hate 4.0: Can media studies rise to the challenge?, Sun Sun LIM

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Front liners fighting fake news: Global perspectives on mobilising young people as media literacy advocates, Sun Sun LIM and Kai Ryn TAN

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The Ehrenfests’ use of toy models to explore irreversibility in statistical mechanics, Joshua LUCZAK and Lena ZUCHOWSKI Book Chapter

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Summer average urban-rural surface temperature differences do not indicate the need for urban heat reduction, Alberto MARTILLI, Matthias ROTH, Winston T. L. CHOW, and et al Working Paper

Sino-Christian Theology, Teng-kuan NG

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Claiming the Los Angeles River for ‘the public’, by boat and by permit, Sayd RANDLE

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Ordinary disasters: On unexceptional flooding in LA's San Fernando Valley, Sayd RANDLE

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Unmaking California’s Central Valley, Sayd RANDLE

The water-energy-food nexus: Bridging the science-policy divide, Terry VAN GEVELT

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End-user perceptions of success and failure: narratives from a natural laboratory of rural electrification projects in Malaysian Borneo, Terry VAN GEVELT, T. ZAMAN, F. GEORGE, M.M BENNETT, S.D. FAM, and J.E. KIM

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A global regression method for thermal sharpening of urban land surface temperatures from MODIS and Landsat, James. W. WANG, Winston T. L. CHOW, and Yi-Chen WANG Journal Article

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Central inspection teams and the enforcement of environmental regulations in China, C. XIANG and Terry VAN GEVELT

Submissions from 2019

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Commentary: How effectively can Singapore adapt to sea level rise?, Winston T. L. CHOW News Article

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What they meant: On Helena Rosenblatt’s "The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century", Christine HENDERSON Book Review

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The UK summer heatwave of 2018 and public concern over energy security, Shaun LARCOM, Po-Wen SHE, and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Tuning networks for prosocial behavior: From senseless swarms to smart mobs [Commentary], Sun Sun LIM and Roland BOUFFANAIS

Comparative global knowledge about the use of digital technologies for learning among young children, Sonia LIVINGSTONE, Sun Sun LIM, Anulekha NANDI, and Becky PHAM

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An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0), Naika MEILI, Gabriele MANOLI, Paolo BURLANDO, Elie BOU-ZEID, Winston T. L. CHOW, Andrew M. COUTTS, Edoardo DALY, Kerry A. NICE, Matthias ROTH, Nigel J. TAPPER, Erik VELASCO, Enrique R. VIVONI, and Simone FATICHI Journal Article

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Vietnamese pre-schoolers’ tablet use and early childhood learning: an ecological investigation, Becky PHAM and Sun Sun LIM

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Bare mountaintops and thirsty cities: On California and its snowpack, Sayd RANDLE

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Harvesting Alternative Water Resources (U.S. West), Sayd RANDLE

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Catching up with the ‘core’: The nature of the agricultural machinery sector and challenges for Chinese manufacturers, M. T. SAFDAR and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Thinking algorithmically: From Cold War computer science to the socialist information culture, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

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Indigenous perceptions of climate anomalies in Malaysian Borneo, Terry VAN GEVELT, H. ABOK, M. M. BENNETT, S. D. FAM, F. GEORGE, N. KULATHURAMAIYER, C. T. LOW, and T. ZAMANE

Submissions from 2018

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The two foundings thesis, Sonu BEDI and Elvin T. LIM Journal Article

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Constructing underachievement: The discursive life of Singapore in US federal education policy, Roberto Santiago DE ROOCK and Darlene Machell ESPENA Journal Article

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Cosmopolitan cinema: Cross-cultural encounters in East Asian film [Book review], ESPENA Darlene Machell Book Review

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The value of green certification in the Singapore housing market, Eric FESSELMEYER

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How much do users value a network expansion? Evidence from the public transit system in Singapore, Eric FESSELMEYER and Haoming LIU

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The effect of localized density on housing prices in Singapore, Eric FESSELMEYER, Kiat Ying Sky SEAH, and Jonathan Ci Yi KWOK

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Do voluntary commons associations deliver sustainable grazing outcomes? An empirical study of England, Shaun LARCOM and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Scaling the nexus: Towards integrated frameworks for analysing water, energy and food, Scott J. MCGRANE, Michele ACUTO, Francesca ARTIOLI, Po-Yu CHEN, Robert COMBER, Julian COTTEE, Geremy FARR-WHARTON, Nicola GREEN, Ariella HELFGOTT, Shaun LARCOM, Julie A. MCCANN, Patrick O'REILLY, Gloria SALMORAL, Marian SCOTT, Lindsay C. TODMAN, Terry VAN GEVELT, and Xiaoyu YAN

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Pedestrian dharma: slowness and seeing in Tsai Ming-Liang’s Walker, Teng-kuan NG

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Landscapes of power: Politics of energy in the Navajo Nation, Sayd RANDLE

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The meanings and limits of ‘local water’ in Los Angeles, Sayd RANDLE

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Liquid futures: Water management systems and anticipated environments, Sayd RANDLE and Jessica BARNES

The Great Soviet calculator hack, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

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Achieving universal energy access and rural development through smart villages, Terry VAN GEVELT, C. Canales HOLZEIS, S. FENNELL, B. HEAP, J. HOLMES, M.Hurley DEPRET, B. JONES, and M.T. SAFDAR

Submissions from 2017

Supporting smallholders in improving wheat cultivation, Tinashe CHIURUGWI, Simon KERR, Ian MIDGLEY, L. A. BOYD, Johnson KAMWAGA, Peter NJAU, Terry Van GEVELT, Claudia CANALES, and Max MARCHESELLI

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Remembering 1965: Indonesian cinema and the 'Battle for History', ESPENA Darlene Machell Journal Article

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Neighborhood segregation and black entrepreneurship, Eric FESSELMEYER and Kiat Ying SEAH

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A people of the law: Review of Kevin Butterfield’s "The Making of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: Law and Association in the Early United States", Christine Dunn HENDERSON Book Review

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Level up! Refreshing parental mediation theory for our digital media landscape, Hee Jhee JIOW, Sun Sun LIM, and Julian LIN

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Regulating the water-energy-food nexus: Interdependencies, transaction costs and procedural justice, Shaun LARCOM and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Youth workers' use of Facebook for mediated pastoralism with juvenile delinquents and youths-at-risk, Sun Sun LIM

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Unsustainability in action: An ethnographic examination, Sayd RANDLE, Lauren BAKER, C. Anne CLAUS, Chris HEBDON, Alder KELEMAN, and Michael R. DOVE

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Estimating and decomposing changes in the White-Black homeownership gap from 2005 to 2011, Kiat Ying SEAH, Eric FESSELMEYER, and Kien LE

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"The computer does not believe in tears": Soviet programming, professionalization, and the gendering of authority, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

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Indigenous community preferences for electricity services: Evidence from a choice experiment in Sarawak, Malaysia, Terry VAN GEVELT, C. Canales HOLZEIS, F. GEORGE, and T. ZAMAN

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Mediating intimacies through mobile communication: Chinese migrant mothers’ digital ‘bridge of magpies’, Yang WANG and Sun Sun LIM

Submissions from 2016

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Strategic interactions in a one-sector growth model, Eric FESSELMEYER, Leonard J. MIRMAN, and Marc SANTUGINI

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Precolonial institutions and deforestation in Africa, S. LARCOM, Terry VAN GEVELT, and A. ZABALA

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At home in the watershed: Environmental imaginaries and spatial politics in Los Angeles, Sayd RANDLE

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The effluent society, Sayd RANDLE

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Insights from an energy poor Rwandan village, Terry VAN GEVELT, C. Canales HOLZEIS, B. JONES, and M.T. SAFDAR

Submissions from 2015

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Expropriation risk and competition within the military, Madhav S. ANEY and Giovanni KO Journal Article

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Energy for development: The concept, HOLMES J. and Terry VAN GEVELT

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The federalist provenance of the principle of privacy, Elvin T. LIM Journal Article

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Seeing California’s water future(s) at Orange County’s Groundwater Replenishment System, Sarah Priscilla RANDLE

Resilient life: the art of living dangerously by Brad Evans and Julian Reid, Sayd RANDLE

Submissions from 2014

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Dynamic pricing in the Singapore condominium market, Eric FESSELMEYER and Haoming LIU

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Risk sharing in an asymmetric environment, Eric FESSELMEYER, Leonard J. MIRMAN, and Marc SANTUGINI

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"Those stubborn principles": From stoicism to sociability in Joseph Addison’s Cato, Christine Dunn HENDERSON and Mark YELLIN Journal Article

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Poverty and politics in Tocqueville’s Memoir on Pauperism, Christine Rodman HENDERSON Magazine Article

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Political thought, political development, and America’s two foundings, Elvin T. LIM Journal Article

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The lovers' quarrel: The two foundings and American political development, Elvin T. LIM Book

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Community-based management of Tricholoma matsutake: A case study of South Korean mountain villages, Terry VAN GEVELT

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Rural electrification and development in South Korea, Terry VAN GEVELT

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The role of state institutions in non-timber forest product commercialisation: A case study of Tricholoma matsutake in South Korea, Terry VAN GEVELT

Submissions from 2013

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Landscape configuration and urban heat island effects: Assessing the relationship between landscape characteristics and land surface temperature in Phoenix, Arizona, John Patrick CONNORS, Christopher S. GALLETTI, and Winston T. L. CHOW Journal Article

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Changes in the white-black house value distribution gap from 1997 to 2005, Eric FESSELMEYER, Kien T. LE, and Kiat Ying SEAH

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Strategic exploitation of a common resource under environmental risk, Eric FESSELMEYER and Marc SANTUGINI

Modernity of this century: Four ethnographic perspectives, Erik HARMS, Ryan JOBSON, Caroline MERRIFIELD, and Sarah Priscilla RANDLE

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The anti-federalist strand in progressive politics and political thought, Elvin T. LIM Journal Article

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Are tournaments optimal over piece rates under limited liability for the principal?, Kosmas MARINAKIS and Theofanis TSOULOUHAS Journal Article

The economic contribution of non-timber forest products to South Korean mountain villager livelihoods, Terry VAN GEVELT

Submissions from 2012

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Vulnerability to extreme heat in Metropolitan Phoenix: Spatial, temporal, and demographic dimensions, Winston T. L. CHOW, Wen-Ching CHUANG, and Patricia GOBER Journal Article

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A household-level decomposition of the white-black homeownership gap, Eric FESSELMEYER, Kien T. LE, and Kiat Ying SEAH

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A comparison of cardinal tournaments and piece rate contracts with liquidity constrained agents, Kosmas MARINAKIS and Theofanis TSOULOUHAS Journal Article

Submissions from 2011

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Globalization, modernity, and migration: The changing visage of social imagination, Darlene Machell ESPENA Journal Article

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Tracking the language of time and space, 1945-2008, Roderick P. HART and Elvin T. LIM Journal Article

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"Now my eyes have seen you": A comparative study of Secret Sunshine and the Book of Job, Teng-kuan NG

Submissions from 2010

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Urban-biased policies and the increasing rural-urban expenditure gap in Vietnam in the 1990s, Eric FESSELMEYER and Kien T. LE

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Cold War origins of the International Federation for Information Processing, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

Submissions from 2009

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Plus ça Change: Innovation and the spirit of enterprise in Tocqueville’s America, Christine Dunn HENDERSON Journal Article

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Traditions of philanthropic order, Christine Dunn HENDERSON Journal Article