Daniel Jew
Academy Alumni
History and College of Alice & Peter Tan
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Daniel Jew is Associate Professor in the Department of History, and Director of Studies at the College of Alice & Peter Tan (CAPT), within the National University of Singapore (NUS). He has been a Teaching Fellow at CAPT since 2014, and was a Resident Fellow from AY2020-AY2026. He read Classics (Ancient History) at Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1998; MPhil, 1999; PhD, 2009) and was formerly Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellow in Ancient History at Darwin College, Cambridge (2010-2012). He is co-editor of Making Learning-Centred Teaching Work in Asia & Beyond (Routledge, 2026, with Lynette Tan & Phyllis Blumberg), and co-editor of The Uncertain Past: Probability in Ancient History (with Myles Lavan & Bart Danon, 2023, Cambridge University Press) and M.I. Finley: An Ancient Historian and His Impact (with Robin Osborne & Michael Scott, 2016, Cambridge University Press).
It is very humbling to be amongst such accomplished teachers. My hope is that we can work together to harness evidence and global best practices to further strengthen teaching and learning, and educational policy, within the university.
• Learner/Learning-Centred Teaching, as applied to Asia
• Significant Learning
• Constructive Alignment
• Living and Learning Communities
• Teaching the Classics (Greece & Rome) in Asia
• NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2020, 2021, 2022)
• NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Honour Roll (AY2023-AY2027)
• NUS Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Award (2017, 2018, 2020)
• NUS Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Honour Roll (AY2021-AY2023)
• NUS Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Committee (AY2022-AY2026)
• NUS Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Committee (AY2021–AY2023; Chair, AY2026)

