Singapore
Shirlena Swee Lian Huang
- National University of Singapore
Shirlena Huang is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore where she was previously its Head of Department, 2004/05-2010/11. Currently she serves as Vice-Dean (Graduate Studies) of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS. She also serves as Regional Editor (Asia) of Women’s Studies International Forum and is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Population Research and the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. She is also the Southeast Asian representative on the Steering Committee of the International Geographical Union’s Geography and Gender Commission.
One key aspect of her research interests focuses on gender and transnational migration (particularly as related to labour and the family) within the Asia-Pacific region. Within this strand of research, she has published widely on the issues of foreign domestic workers as well as the 'Asian' transnational family.
Arising from her other area of research on urban conservation and heritage issues within Singapore, Shirlena currently serves as a member of the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) of Singapore’s Conservation Advisory Panel.
Nguyen Quang Dung
Nguyen Quang Dung was born in Hoi An City, Vietnam. He obtained his BA in Oriental Studies from Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City, and worked there as a research assistant at the Center for Vietnamese-Southeast Asian Studies. In 2007, he won a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to study in the MA program of Southeast Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. In 2011, he was offered the NUS-HYI Joint Doctoral Scholarship and is now a PhD candidate in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS. His research interests are ethnic identity, education for the hill tribes in Thailand, and ethnic language loss.
Manuel Victor Sapitula
Manuel Victor Sapitula is a Ph.D. Candidate at the National University of Singapore and faculty member in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. His interests include sociology/anthropology of religion, qualitative research and Christianity in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. His current research project is about Marian piety and popular religion in the Philippines.
Wei Bingbing
Wei Bingbing is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. Born in 1982 in Nanjing, China, he obtained his B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from Nanjing University in 2004 and 2007 respectively. His academic interest initially focused on the political history of Republican China, and later shifted more towards the socio-cultural history of modern China. Taking commercial theaters as the subject, his dissertation examines the transformation of operatic entertainment culture in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, with the ultimate aim of shedding light on the underlying social changes and cultural politics. During his stay at Harvard, besides finishing the dissertation, he also intends to take this opportunity to broaden his academic horizon and strengthen the foundation for his future career.
Yang Bin
Bin Yang is an associate professor of history at the National University of Singapore. His dissertation "Between Winds and Clouds: the Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE -- Twentieth Century CE)" was awarded the AHA 2004 Gutenberg-E Prize and published by Columbia University Press in 2008. His research articles have appeared in Modern Asian Studies, The China Quarterly, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, and Journal of World History. He is interested in both Chinese and world history.
Current Research Projects and Interests: Sexual Abuses in Rural China, 1950s-1960s
- Featured book review in American History Reivew Thomas S. Mullaney, Coming to Terms with the Nation, Ethnic Classification in Modern China, with a foreword by Benedict Anderson (Berkeley, Los Angles and London: University of California Press, 2011), featured review in American Historian Review Vol. 116, No. 4 (October 2011): 1068-1071.
- Book chapter “The Bay of Bengal Connections to Yunnan,” in Pelagic Passageways: The Northern Bay of Bengal before Colonialism ed. Rila Mukherjee, Primus Books, New Delhi, 2011, pp. 317-42.
Jack Chia Meng-tat
Jack Meng-Tat Chia is a Ph.D. student in Southeast Asian history at Cornell University. Born and raised in Singapore, he received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from the National University of Singapore, and his A.M. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University, where he was a Harvard-Yenching Scholar. His research interests include Chinese Buddhism and popular religion, China-Southeast Asia interactions, and overseas Chinese history. His articles have appeared in Asian Culture, China Quarterly, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies and SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia.
WONG John C.H.
TANAKA Kyoko
Quah Jon Siew Tien
- Retired Professor of Political Science, National University of Singapore
Current Research Projects and Interests:
Anti-Corruption Strategies in Asian Countries, Civil Service Reforms in Asian Countries
1. Jon S.T. Quah, Curbing Corruption in Asian Countries: An Impossible Dream? (Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2011)
2. Jon S.T. Quah, Public Administration Singapore-Style (Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing,2010)
3. Jon S.T. Quah, Taiwan's Anti-Corruption Strategy: Suggestions for Reform (Baltimore: School of Law, University of Maryland, 2010)
QUAH Stella
Current Research Projects and Interests: Health services research; family caregivers of loved ones affected by serious illness
Quah, S.R. (2011) “Gender and the burden of disease in ten Asian countries: An exploratory analysis,” Asia Europe Journal, 8, 499-512.
Quah, S.R. (2010) “Health and Culture”. In William C. Cockerham, ed., The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology. London: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 27-46.
Quah, Stella R. (2010) “Governance of epidemics: Trust and health consensus building.“ In J. Killewo, K Heggenhougen and SR Quah, eds., (2010) Epidemiology and Demography in Public Health. Burlington, MA, and London: Elsevier, 157-166.
Quah, Stella R. (2009) Families in Asia – Home and Kin. 2nd Edition. London: Routledge.
Heggenhougen, Kris and Quah, Stella R. (eds) (2008) International Encyclopedia of Public Health. London: Elsevier. Six Volumes.
Quah, S.R. (2008) “In Pursuit of Health: Pragmatic Acculturation in Everyday Life”, Health Sociology Review, 17, 4, 419-421.
Quah, Stella R. ed. (2007) Crisis Preparedness: Asia and the Global Governance of Epidemics. Stanford, CA: Stanford Shorenstein APARC & Brookings Institution.
