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Jenny
So,
Professor of Fine Arts, Department of Fine Arts and Director,
Institute of Chinese Studies.
Professor So
received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, USA, in 1982.
She is an art historian specializing in ancient Chinese bronzes
and jades. Before returning to Hong Kong, Professor So was
the Senior Curator of Chinese Art at The Freer Gallery of
Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
Professor So joined the Department of Fine Arts, CUHK in 2001.
She lectures on the history of Chinese jades, Chinese bronzes
and Methodology in Art-historical studies. She also supervises
M.Phil. and Ph.D. students. Since 2002, she has been Director
of the Institute of Chinese Studies.
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Sidney
Cheung,
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology and Associate
Director, Centre for Cultural for Cultural Heritage Studies.
Prof. Sidney
C.H. Cheung received scholarships given by Japanese Government/Monbusho
(1984-94) for his undergraduate, masters and doctoral programmes
and his anthropological training in Japan. Currently he is
Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Anthropology
as well as Associate Director of the Centre for Cultural Heritage
Studies. He has been doing research about freshwater fish
farming in Hong Kong in order to understand the fishermen
and their perspectives on environmental change, sustainable
development and wetland conservation. Currently, he is working
on an ongoing multi-site research project exploring the impact
of the move of American crayfish from the U.S. to Asia and
on the global consumption and production of crayfish in China,
Japan, and the U.S. Besides academic publications, Cheung
was co-hosting two 15-session hourly RTHK radio programme
entitled 《港飲食、講文化 (Hong Kong Foodways
and Culture)》 in 2004 and 《文化非主流
(Culture Unconventional)》 in 2005, through which he was able
to bring anthropological perspectives to the audience. Again,
some of his research findings were used for the RTHK documentary
series of 香港故事 (Hong Kong Stories)
such as [年年有魚]
and [東江逆流] in 2008.
Areas
of Interest: Visual anthropology, anthropology of tourism,
cultural heritage, food and identity, ethnicity and cultural
nationalism, Ainu-Japanese relations
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Tracey
Lu,
Professor, Department of Anthropology and Director, Centre
for Cultural Heritage Studies.
Prof. Tracey
Lie-Dan Lu obtained her Ph.D. from the Australian National
University. She has been receiving funding from the Research
Grant Council and the HKSAR Antiquities and Monuments Office
(AMO) to conduct archaeological research in South China and
Hong Kong. Recently she has published two articles, one for
an edited book about Mid-Holocene climate and cultural dynamics
in Central and Eastern China, and another about natural resources
and subsistence strategies in Hong Kong. From 2003 she has
also been working on urban renewal and heritage conservation
in Hong Kong and mainland China, and has published several
papers on this topic. In 2008, Prof. Lu was interviewed by
RTHK Channel III on the participation of the younger generation
in heritage preservation in Hong Kong, as well as by Asian
Television (ATV) on the Nanyue Kingdom in South China. Prof.
Lu has received two awards with co-authors of the book Zengpiyan:
A Prehistoric Cave Site in Guilin, published in 2003, namely
the 2nd prize of the Biennial Research Award of the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences and the 1st prize of the Research
Award of the Institute of Archaeology in the Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences. She is recently appointed as a member
of the Antiquity Advisory Board of Hong Kong SAR.
Areas of Interest: Archaeology, the origin and development
of agriculture in China, use-wear analysis of prehistoric
tools, phytolith analysis, palaeo environments and palaeoclimates,
humans' exploitation and impact upon environment and natural
resources, cultural heritage management, museology, art history
in ancient China.
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Oscar
Ho,
Professional Consultant, Department of Cultural and Religious
Studies
Oscar Ho received
his M.F.A. degree at University of California, Davis and furthered
his training in museum management at the Deutsche Museum in
Munich and Museum of Modern Art in New York. He was the Exhibition
Director of the Hong Kong Arts Centre from 1988 to 2001, and
Founding Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai.
He has curated numerous exhibitions locally and internationally,
and served as guest curator for major exhibitions including
the 2nd and the 3rd 'Asia Pacific Triennial' in Australia,
'MX Art Festival' in Canada and 'Containers 96' in Denmark.
He is the Founder and President of the Hong Kong chapter of
the International Art Critics Association. In addition to
his writing for exhibition catalogues, he writes regularly
for local and international publications and is a founding
member of the editorial board of the British art journal and
Chairman of the Board of Director of the . As founding member
of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, and was member
of the Museum Advisory Group for the West Kowloon Cultural
District, responsible for conceiving the concept of 'Museum
Plus'. In 2008, he was a member of the International Committee
for the selection of the artistic director of documenta 13.
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Steven
Lubar,
Professor, Departments of American Civilization and History; Director,
John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage
and Director, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology |
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Emily Stoke-Rees,
Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Postdoctoral
fellow in museum anthropology. Her research involves a comparative
study of the role of new national museums in postcolonial Hong Kong,
Singapore, and Macau, addressing topics such as architecture and identity,
writing the 'national story' in the postcolonial world, and the material
representation of ethnic and indigenous minorities. Recent publications
include Recounting (Hi)Story: Constructing a National Narrative
in the Hong Kong Museum of History and We Need Something of Our Own:
Representing Ethnicity, Diversity and National Heritage in Singapore.
She teaches on museums and national identities. |
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Krysta
Ryzewski, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology
(at Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World) and
in Engineering
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Caroline
Frank, Visiting Scholar, Department of American Civilization
and Co-principal investigator, Greene Farm Archaeology Project |
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Annie Valk, Associate
Director for Programmes of John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities
and Cultural Heritage
Associate director for programs at the John Nicholas Brown Center.
A historian by training, her interests include oral history, local
history, women's history, and African American history. She has worked
extensively on community oral history projects in the Midwest and
the South, examining experiences of immigration, industrialization
and deindustrialization, and racial segregation. |
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Ian
Russell - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of American Civilization |
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