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CHEN Ju-Chen
Faculty of Arts
Department of Anthropology
Title
Senior Lecturer
Tel
3943 7672
Email
juchen@cuhk.edu.hk
Spoken Language
, English, Putonghua, Taiwanese
Area of Expertise
Anthropology of China, globalization, urban studies, social differences, labor migration, gender, consumption and mass media
CHENG Sealing
Faculty of Arts
Department of Anthropology
Title
Chairperson / Associate Professor
Tel
3943 7673
Email
sealing@cuhk.edu.hk
Spoken Language
, Cantonese, English, Korean
Area of Expertise
Sex work, human trafficking, 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
CHEUNG Sidney C H
Faculty of Arts
Department of Anthropology
Title
Professor
Tel
3943 7662
Email
sidneycheung@cuhk.edu.hk
Spoken Language
, English, Cantonese, Putonghua, Japanese
Area of Expertise
Anthropology of Tourism, Food and Foodways
KHALIKOVA Venera
Faculty of Arts
Department of Anthropology
Title
Assistant Professor
Tel
3943 7676
Email
venera.khalikova@cuhk.edu.hk
Spoken Language
, English
Area of Expertise
Anthropology of India, nationalism, nationalist discourse, plural and alternative medicine (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani), medical knowledge, ideologies of healthy consumption, body and sexuality, cultural citizenship
KIPNIS Andrew
Faculty of Arts
Department of Anthropology
Title
Chairman / Professor
Tel
3943 1899
Email
abkipnis@cuhk.edu.hk
Spoken Language
, English, Putonghua
Area of Expertise
Anthropology of governing, urbanization, postsocialism and postsocialist societies, anthropology of education, processes of subjectification, kinship and gender, gift giving and economic exchange, ritual industries, language and culture, truth and “post-truth”, China, East Asia
KUAN Teresa
Faculty of Arts
Department of Anthropology
Title
Associate Professor
Tel
3943 7728
Email
tkuan@cuhk.edu.hk
Spoken Language
, English, Putonghua
Area of Expertise
Anthropology of China, childhood studies, psychological anthropology, medical anthropology
LAM Weng Cheong
Faculty of Arts
Department of Anthropology
Title
Associate Professor
Tel
3943 7705
Email
wlam@cuhk.edu.hk
Spoken Language
, English, Cantonese, Putonghua
Area of Expertise
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
MAK Yan Yan
Faculty of Arts
Department of Anthropology
Title
Assistant Professor
Tel
3943 1547
Email
graceyymak@cuhk.edu.hk
Spoken Language
, English, Cantonese, Putonghua
Area of Expertise
Chinese-language cinema, Hong Kong studies in the Cold War era, Modern and contemporary Chinese literature
TANG Wyman Wai Man
Faculty of Arts
Department of Anthropology
Title
Senior Lecturer
Tel
3943 7675
Email
wymantang@cuhk.edu.hk
Spoken Language
, English, Cantonese, Putonghua
Area of Expertise
Sports anthropology, drug studies, South Asian studies, Hong Kong studies, migration, ethnicity
VEVAINA Leilah
Faculty of Arts
Department of Anthropology
Title
Assistant Professor
Tel
3943 7716
Email
leilah.vevaina@cuhk.edu.hk
Spoken Language
, English
Area of Expertise
The relationship between religion and economic life, Religious endowment forms and finance, Urban spaces and property, Death rituals and religious infrastructure, Postcolonial law and society, Charity and Philanthropy, Transnational Giving, Anthropology of South Asia
