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Joseph Bosco
Associate Professor, Department of
Anthropology
Joseph Bosco (Columbia PhD
1989) is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Head of the Graduate
Division at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has done research in
Panama, Taiwan and south China. His Research in gender has focused on the
deity Tin Hau and on gender ideals in new religions, and on family
factories and women factory worksers in Taiwan.
[ Selected Publications]
Cynthia Chan
Associate Professor, Department of Community
and Family Medicine
Cynthia Chan obtained her
medical degree and practiced as a family physician in Canada before she
joined the Chinese University in 1986. She has fellowships in Family
Medicine from Hong Kong, Canada and Australia. She is Director of the
Diploma programme in Family Medicine for practicing primary care
physicians in Hong Kong.
She
has special interest in women's health, patient-doctor communication and
psychological medicine.
[ Selected Publications]
Fanny Mui-ching Cheung
Professor, Department of Psychology
Fanny Cheung (Ph.D., Univ.
of Minnesota) established the Gender Research Programme at CUHK in 1985.
When she was Dean of the Faculty of Social Science in 1995-96, she
initiated the Gender Studies Programme. An active advocate for women's
development in a community and a recognized women's leader in the
Asia-Pacific region, she served as the Founding Chairperson of Hong
Kong's Equal Opportunities Commission from 1996-99.
Her
research interests include gender roles, violence against women, women's
health, and gender equality.
[ Selected Publications ]
Gwendolyn Gong
Professor, Department of English
Since joining CUHK in 1994,
Gwendolyn Gong (Ph.D., Purdue University) has been a Visiting Scholar
(1994-1995), the Acting Director of the English Language Teaching Unit
(1996-1998), and a professor in the Department of English (1998-current).
She teaches courses in gender and language, psycholinguistics, and
discourse analysis; she is also the co-editor of the Asian Journal of
English Language Teaching, an international refereed journal on ESL/EFL
research, theory, and pedagogy.
Her
research interests include rhetoric and writing, Asian culture and
language use, and gender and language.
[ Selected Publications ]
Eleanor Holroyd
Associate Professor, Department of Nursing
Eleanor Holroyd, Ph.D. (
Medical Anthropology), joined the Chinese University in 1992. She is
currently programme co-ordinator of the BN post registration programme.
Her
research interests focus on medical anthropology and include Chinese
women's health in respect to health beliefs, women's roles, pregnancy,
family care giving and Chinese medicine.
[ Selected Publications ]
Eva Hung
Director/Editor, Research Centre for
Translation
Eva Hung received her B.A.
(1st Hons) and M. Phil. degrees from Hong Kong University and her Ph.D.
from London University. She has been the Director of the Research Centre
for Translation, CUHK and Editor of Renditions since January 1987, and
was appointed honorary Guest Professor by Peking University in 1997.
Her
latest research project on gender issues is "Silent Protagonists:
The Wives of Leading May Fourth Writers".
[ Selected Publications ]
Jane Jackson
Associate Professor, Department of English
Jane Jackson (Ph.D.,
University of Toronto) joined the Chinese University in 1995. She is
Associate Professor in the Department of English where she is Coordinator
of Postgraduate Studies in Applied English Linguistics. She teaches
courses in intercultural communication, language acquisition, second
language classroom research, and curriculum design.
Her
research interests include case-based learning and teaching in second
language contexts, intercultural communication, cultural identity
formation and second language acquisition.
[ Selected Publications ]
Gordon Mathews
Associate Professor, Department of
Anthropology
Gordon Mathews earned his
Ph. D. from Cornell University.
His
major research area in gender is comparative masculinities. Currently he
is the Acting Chairperson of the Gender Studies Programme Committee.
[ Selected Publications ]
Lynne Yukie Nakano
Associate Professor, Department of Japanese
Studies
Lynne Nakano (Ph.D., Yale
University) is a cultural anthropologist in the Department of Japanese
Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also the
Coordinator of Undergraduate Minor Programme in Gender Studies.
Her
research interests include gender roles, marriage, and self-identity. She
has written on welfare, volunteerism and social change in Japan.
[ Selected Publications]
Hang-Yue Ngo
Associate Professor,
Department of Management
Ngo Hang-Yue earned his M.
A. and Ph. D. from the University of Chicago.
His
major research areas are gender and employment, organization, and labor
issues in Hong Kong and China.
[ Selected Publications ]
Siumi Maria Tam
Associate Professor, Department of
Anthropology
Maria Tam is a social and
cultural anthropologist with research interests in gender, modernization
and social development, migration, ethnicity and ethnic relations. Her
area focus is Hong Kong, China and overseas Chinese in Australia.
She
is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, and chairs the
Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
[ Selected Publications ]
Catherine So Kum Tang
Professor, Department of Psychology
Catheirne Tang earned her M.
S. and Ph. D. from the University of North Texas.
Her
major research areas are sexual violence, women's roles and gender
equality.
[ Selected Publications ]
Sheila Twinn
Professor, The Nethersole School of Nursing
Sheila Twinn's (Ph.D., Univ.
of London) research interest is in public health with a particular focus
on women's health.
Her
current research projects include women's knowledge about cervical cancer
and the implications of knowledge levels on screening uptake and women's
perceptions of factors that influence attendance patterns for cervical
screening.
[ Selected Publications ]
Vivienne
Wee
Associate Professor, Department of Applied
Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Vivienne
Wee got her Ph.D. from Australian National University.
Her
major research interest is Women’s health, female labour migration,
as well as gender in the context of sustainable livelihoods, economic
empowerment and globalisation.
[ Selected Publications ]
Angela Wai Ching Wong
Associate Professor, Department of Cultural
and Religious Studies
Wong Wai Ching earned her M.
A. and Ph. D. from the University of Chicago.
Her
major research areas are Religion and Women, Asian Theology, Feminist
Biblical Hermeneutics, Postcolonialism and Hong Kong Christianity and
Gender, Nationalism and Religion in Asia.
[ Selected Publications ]
Hon-Ming Yip
Professor, Department of History
Yip Hon Ming (BA in History,
CUHK; MA, CPh and Ph.D., UCLA)joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong
in 1987. Her research interests are modern and contemporary Chinese
socioeconomic history, local history of north and south China, history of
the overseas Chinese and women's/gender history.
[ Selected Publications ]
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