Anthropology

Ngô Thị Thanh Tâm is a researcher at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Gottingen, Germany. She received a Ph.D in Anthropology from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research topics include the recent Protestant Conversion among the Hmong in Northern Vietnam, the social memory of the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese border war in China and Vietnam, and the unfolding of Cold War politics in the experience of the Northern and Southern Vietnamese in Berlin, Germany. As a fellow in the Coordinate Research Program under the guidance of Professor Hue Tam Ho Tai, she will be working on her book manuscript title “Sex, Soul, Spirits: Becoming Protestant Hmong in Contemporary Vietnam.”.

Seung-Mi Han is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies and Anthropology at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Her current research interests are citizenship, nationality, and globalization as well as the culture industry in the information age. She has written on late Meiji colonial travel writing, politics of identity in a Japanese local industry, consumption of Japanese culture in contemporary Korea, politics and ethos of the New Community Movement during the South development era, and humanitarian aid to North Korea by South Korean NGOs.

Professor Pan Shouyong is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Museum Studies, Central University for Nationalities, Department of Ethnological Studies. He obtained his B.A. in Archaeology and Museum Studies from Jilin University, his M.A. in History and Museology from Nankai University, and his Ph.D. in Ethnology from the Central University for Nationalities. His research at the Harvard-Yenching Institute was titled: “Revisiting History: A New Study of Taitou Village”. In this study, he re-examined a community that was featured prominently in early influential writings by Chinese anthropologists.

Dr. Nguyen is an anthropologist who received his Ph.D. from the Vietnam National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities. He is a researcher and an International Cooperation Assistant at the Institute of Ethnology. His past research has focused on ethnic groups in the Vietnamese Central Highlands. Specifically, he has investigated their religion, migration, land use and resource management.

Professor Chen is an accomplished anthropologist and archaeologist who has conducted significant fieldwork in southern Taiwan. She obtained her M.A. in anthropology from National Taiwan University, where she has returned to become an assistant professor. She received her Ph.D. in Archaeology from Arizona State University. She is interested in the study of ceramics, the subsistence system, settlement patterns, and socioeconomic organization.

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.

Current Research Projects and Interests:

Parent-Children Dynamics among Migrant Families; Returned Migrant Children in Central and West China: General Situation, Problems and Countermeasures; Social Impact of the Relief & Regulation System: A Case Study of Zhejiang