MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT
Sea Ling CHENG
Chairperson / 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
Andrew KIPNIS
Professor
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
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
Aaron HAMES
Assistant Professor
ajhames@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Ethnography; aging; kinship; demographic change; loneliness; cooperative organizations; medical anthropology; political ecology; Japan; Hong Kong; East Asia
Venera R. KHALIKOVA
Assistant Professor
Interest
Highly skilled migration; racialization; gender; citizenship and belonging; nationalist discourse; medical anthropology; alternative medicine; wellness; anthropological theory; anthropology of India and Indian diaspora; South Asians in Hong Kong
Adam LIEBMAN
Assistant Professor
adamliebman@cuhk.edu.hk
Interest
Environmental, political, economic, visual, public, and community-engaged anthropology; discard studies; junk art; the environmental humanities; and Chinese, Asian, and American studies.
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.
Wyman TANG
Senior Lecturer
Interest
Sports anthropology, drug studies, South Asian studies, Hong Kong studies, migration, ethnicity
Sharon Wai-yee WONG
Senior Lecturer
Interest
Archaeology, China-Southeast Asian cultural interaction in pre-modern period, trade ceramic studies, technology of craft production, museology, cultural heritage studies
Tim ROSENKRANZ
Lecturer
Interest
Economic Anthropology, Globalization and the Nation-state, Media and Marketing, Work and Occupations, Consumption and Markets, Organization and Crisis
Niko BESNIER
Visiting Scholar (Spring 2025)
N.Besnier@latrobe.edu.au
Interest
Anthropology of the body, gender and sexuality, economic relations, political processes, anthropological theory, Pacific Islands, Japan, United States