Aihwa Ong

Aihwa Ong

Aihwa Ong at the Graduate Center, CUNY, October 2016
Native name Wáng Ài Huá
Born 1950
Penang, Malaysia
Nationality Malaysian
Occupation anthropologist, professor, scholar
Title Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology
Website www.aihwaong.info
Academic background
Education Ph.D.
Alma mater Columbia University[1]
Thesis title Women and Industry: Malay Peasants in Coastal Selangor, 1975-80[2]
Thesis year 1982[2]
Doctoral advisor Robert F. Murphy[2]
Academic work
Discipline Anthropologist
Sub discipline Sociocultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Southeast Asia
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Main interests Science, Technology, Anthropology of Citizenship, Neoliberalism, Modernity
Notable works Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty

Aihwa Ong (simplified Chinese: 王爱华; traditional Chinese: 王愛華; pinyin: Wáng Ài Huá) is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Biography

Ong was born in Penang, Malaysia to a Straits Chinese family. She was educated in the Convent Light School, Penang. She attended Barnard College, where she received her B.A in anthropology (honors, 1974). She then went on to graduate with a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 1982. She was visiting lecturer at Hampshire College. (1982–84), before joining the Department of Anthropology at Berkeley (1984 – present).[3]

Academic work

She has written on globalization, transformations in citizenship, neoliberalism, science studies, gender, labor, biotechnology, and immigration. Her work draws from field studies conducted in Malaysia, the United States, China, and Singapore. Her work focuses on contemporary practices of citizenship, governance, and globalization in the Asia Pacific region.[4]

Publications

Affiliations

She has also been Chair, US National Committee for Pacific Science Association, (2009–2011), Visiting Professor, Yonsei University, (2010), Visiting Senior Researcher, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2009), Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong, (2001).and Chair, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Berkeley, (1999–2001).

References

  1. Ong, Aihwa (2015). "Aihwa Ong - Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Ong, Ai-hwa (1982). Women and Industry: Malay Peasants in Coastal Selangor, 1975-80 (Ph.D.). ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  3. "Personal Page". Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  4. "Most-cited Articles". positions Asia Critique. Duke University Press. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  5. Stevens, Maila (May 2007). "Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (Review)". Intersections: Gender, History, and Culture in the Asian Context (15).
  6. Choy, Timothy (November 2008). "Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (Review)". Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 31 (2): 338–342. doi:10.1111/j.1555-2934.2008.00027_4.x.
  7. Rhee, Young Ju (2004). "Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, and the New America (Review)". Journal of Refugee Studies. 17 (4): 477–478. doi:10.1093/jrs/17.4.477.
  8. Karam, John (January 2001). "Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality (Review)". Anthropological Quarterly. 74 (1): 45–46. doi:10.1353/anq.2001.0006.
  9. Douglas, Christopher (Summer 2000). "Review of "Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality."". Brwn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature. 2 (1).
  10. "Book Awards". Association of Asian American Studies. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  11. Hathaway, Donna (1989). "Review of "Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia."". Signs. 14 (4): 945–947. doi:10.1086/494558.

External links

Personal Page http://www.aihwaong.info

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