Julian CH Lee is a Lecturer in Global Studies, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Australia. His research has focused on civil society, gender, sexuality and multiculturalism with an area focus on Malaysia. He has been an Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Kent, and maintains an interest in public engagement through regular columns in non-academic periodicals. His published academic work includes his sole-authored books Islamization and Activism in Malaysia (2010), and Policing Sexuality: Sex, Society, and the State (2011).