MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT
Andrew KIPNIS
Professor / Chairperson
abkipnis@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Urbanization, ritual industries, education, gift giving, gender and kinship, social relations, and truth
Gordon MATHEWS
Professor
cmgordon@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Meanings of life, culture and identity, low-end globalization, asylum seekers, life after death
Sidney C. H. CHEUNG
Professor
sidneycheung@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Visual anthropology, anthropology of tourism, cultural heritage, food and identity, social change and agriculture development, Ainu-Japanese relations, social resilience.
Sea Ling CHENG
Associate Professor
sealing@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Sex work, human trafficking, refugees, women’s activism, and policy-making, HIV/AIDS campaigns and policies, The Vagina Monologues and transnational feminism, the politics of representation in anti-trafficking discourses, pedagogical issues in women's and gender studies and Asian studies
Teresa KUAN
Associate Professor
tkuan@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Anthropology of China, anthropology of ethics, childhood studies, psychological anthropology, medical anthropology.
Hsuan-Ying HUANG
Assistant Professor
hsuan-ying.huang@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Medical and psychiatric anthropology, contemporary China, history of psychiatry, psychotherapy research, digital mental health, and mental health policy
LAM Weng Cheong
Assistant Professor
wlam@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Archaeology of the Qin-Han empire and Bronze Age China, metallurgy, zooarchaeology, GIS in archaeology, development of metal technology in China, history of material culture and art in ancient China, craft production, gender archaeology, commodities and economic anthropology
Sharon Wai-yee WONG
Assistant Professor
sharonwwy@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Archaeology, China-Southeast Asian cultural interaction in pre-modern period, trade ceramic studies, technology of craft production, museology, cultural heritage studies
Leilah VEVAINA
Assistant Professor
leilah.vevaina@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Anthropology of property, Anthropology of South Asia, urban studies, giving and philanthropy, Anthropology of religion and secularism, socio-legal studies
CHEN Ju-chen
Senior Lecturer
juchen@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Labor migration, globalization, gender, music, economic anthropology, anthropology of senses, visual anthropology, anthropology of China
Venera R. KHALIKOVA
Lecturer
venera.khalikova@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Anthropology of India, medical anthropology, plural and alternative medicine (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani), medical knowledge production, healthy eating, duty and consumption, body, sexuality, embodied nationalism and nationalist discourse.
Wyman TANG
Lecturer
wymantang@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Sports anthropology, drug studies, South Asian studies, Hong Kong studies, migration, ethnicity