SODA Naoki is Professor at the Institute of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He specializes in modern Southeast Asian history and Malaysian political and social history. He received his PhD in Area Studies from Kyoto University in 2008, and served at the National Museum of Ethnology as Researcher and at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies as Lecturer in 2002 and as Assistant Professor in 2006, before taking up his current position in 2019.