MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT
Andrew KIPNIS
Professor / Chairperson
Interest
Urbanization, ritual industries, education, gift giving, gender and kinship, social relations, and truth
Sidney C. H. CHEUNG
Professor
Interest
Visual anthropology, anthropology of tourism, cultural heritage, food and identity, social change and agriculture development, Ainu-Japanese relations, social resilience.
Gordon MATHEWS
Research Professor & Emeritus Professor
Interest
Meanings of life, culture and identity, low-end globalization, asylum seekers, life after death
Sea Ling CHENG
Associate Professor
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
Interest
Anthropology of China, anthropology of ethics, childhood studies, psychological anthropology, medical anthropology.
LAM Weng Cheong
Associate Professor
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
Christina CHEUNG
Assistant Professor
christina.cheung@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Bioarchaeology; Palaeodiet; palaeomobility; palaeoclimate; stable isotope analysis; big data analysis
Venera R. KHALIKOVA
Assistant Professor
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.
Leilah VEVAINA
Assistant Professor
Interest
Anthropology of property, Anthropology of South Asia, urban studies, giving and philanthropy, Anthropology of religion and secularism, socio-legal studies
Chaoxiong ZHANG
Assistant Professor
chaoxiongzhang@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Anthropology of China, medical anthropology, addiction, morality, care, ecological and environmental anthropology, development studies, ethnicity & minority cultures, cultural heritage.
Tim ROSENKRANZ
Lecturer
Interest
Economic Anthropology, Globalization and the Nation-state, Media and Marketing, Work and Occupations, Consumption and Markets, Organization and Crisis
Wyman TANG
Lecturer
Interest
Sports anthropology, drug studies, South Asian studies, Hong Kong studies, migration, ethnicity