Professor Wan Zawawi Ibrahim is an anthropologist who has published on a wide range of topics, from early work on the Malay peasantry to more recent writings on identity among the indigenous peoples of Sabah and Sarawak.

In early 2020, “Prof Wan,” as he is affectionately known, presented a seminar at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) entitled “On the Making of Transnational Scholarship in the Periphery: Reflections of an Anthropologist.”