Previous Members of the Directory
Bowes, Julia
Honorary Assistant Professor, Department of History, School of Humanities
Gender and diversity related research interests: Gender, the History of the Family, and US Conservatism
Website link: https://www.history.hku.hk/staff-j-bowes.html
Chiu, Patricia PK
Honorary Assistant Professor, Department of History, School of Humanities
Gender and diversity related research interests: gender and women’s history
Selected publication: Promoting All-Round Education for Girls: A History of Heep Yunn School, Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 2020.
Cunich, Peter
Director of the University of Hong Kong Centenary History Project
Gender and diversity related research interests: women in the history of University of Hong Kong; European missionaries in China and Australia
Selected publication: “Deaconesses in the South China Missions of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), 1922-1951.” Christian Women in Chinese Society: The Anglican Story. Ed. Wai Ching Angela Wong and Patricia P.K. Chiu. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 2018. P. 85-106.
Website link: https://history.hku.hk/staff-p-cunich.html
Guo, Ting
Gender and diversity related research interests: (post)secularism
and political religion, including issues of gender and technology
Selected publication: “Politics of love: Love as a religious and political discourse in modern China through the lens of political leaders.” Critical Research on Religion. Issue 8:1. 2020. P. 39–52.
Website link: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/dls/ting-guo
Jaworski, Adam
Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor, School of English
Gender and diversity related research interests: sociolinguistics; language and art
Selected publication: “Visual Silence and Non-Normative Sexualities: Art, Transduction and Performance.” Gender and Language. Issue 10:3. 2016. P. 433–454.
Website link:
https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/48/Professor_Adam_Jaworski
Jhaveri, Aditi
Gender and diversity related research interests: gender representation in the news
Selected publication: “Using News Narratives to Learn about Gender Ideologies in Contemporary China.” Media Literacy Education in China. Ed. Cheung Chi Kim. Springer. 2016. P. 73-90.
Website link: https://cle.hkust.edu.hk/about/staff/lcaditij
Marchetti, Gina
Honorary Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities
Gender and diversity related research interests: feminist film and cultural studies; Hong Kong women filmmakers
Selected publication: "Clara Law, Asia, and World Cinema," in Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, Gina Marchetti, and Tan See-Kam, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema (Palgrave-Macmillan Publishers, 2018), pp.689-707.
Website link: https://www.pratt.edu/people/gina-marchetti/
Meek, Laura
Gender and diversity related research interests: gender, aging, and the body in Tanzania; misogynoir (anti-black misogyny) & racial capitalism; feminist science and technology studies
Selected publication: “Bibi’s Uchungu: Eating, Bitterness, and Relationality Across Indian Ocean Worlds.” Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds. Eds. Smriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng’weno, and Neelima Jeychandran. New York, NY: Routledge. 2020. P. 197-211.
Nakano, Yoshiko
Honorary Associate Professor, Japanese Studies, School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Gender and diversity related research interests: globalization of Japanese products and services; international tourism advertising and gender
Selected publication: “‘Wings of the New Japan’: Kamikaze, Kimonos, and Airline Branding in Postwar Japan.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias. Issue 4:1. 2018. P. 160-186.
Shih, Shu Mei
Hon-Yin and Suet-Fong Chan Professor in Chinese 2014-2020
Gender and diversity related research interests: Sinophone studies, modern Chinese literature, comparative literature, critical theory, postcolonial studies, feminism, transnationalism, critical race theory, world literature, and minority discourse
Website link: https://complit.ucla.edu/person/shu-mei-shih/
Valdez, Jessica R
Gender and diversity related research interests: nineteenth-century British literature and culture
Selected publication: “How to Write Yiddish in English, or Israel Zangwill and Multilingualism in Children of the Ghetto.” Studies in the Novel. Issue 46:3. 2014. P. 315-334.
Website link:
https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/64/Dr_Jessica_Valdez