Our People

Board of Directors

Helen F. Siu

Yale University, Professor of Anthropology

May Bo Ching

City University of Hong Kong, Professor and Head of Department of Chinese and History

Jascha K. L. Yu

Senior Chinese Editor; Former Senior Research Officer at The University of Hong Kong

Gershom Tse

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Teaching Associate; Professional Editor, Writer and Composer

Advisory Committee

Members of the Committee are renowned academics positioned globally with multi-disciplinary expertise. They assume active roles to make recommendations, to help build programs, and to brainstorm with the Board of Directors on the operations of the Foundation.

Angela Ki Che Leung (Chair)

Emeritus Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

Francesca Bray

Professor Emerita, School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh

Daniel Chua

Chair Professor of Music, Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong

Ellen Hertz

Professeure, Institut d’ethnologie, Université de Neuchâtel

Denise Ho

Associate Professor, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Ronnie Hsia

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History, Department of History, The Pennsylvania State University

Dorothy Ko

Professor of History, Department of History, Barnard College, Columbia University

Yukiko Koga

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Yale University

James Kung

Griffin Chair in Economic History, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne

Elizabeth Kӧll

Professor and Chair of History, William Payden Collegiate Professor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame

Zhiwei Liu (劉志偉)

Professor of History, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou

Barbara Mittler

Professor and Deputy Director, Institut für Sinologie, Universität Heidelberg

Matthew Mosca

Dau-lin Hsu Endowed Professor, Associate Professor of History and International Studies, Department of History, University of Washington, Seattle

Till Mostowlansky

Research Professor in Anthropology & Sociology, Geneva Graduate Institute

Peter C. Perdue

Professor Emeritus of History, Department of History, Yale University

Leo K. Shin

Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, Department of History, University of British Columbia

Elizabeth Sinn

Honorary Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences & Department of History, The University of Hong Kong

Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan

Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Forestry & Environmental Studies;
Co-Director, Program in Agrarian Studies; Chair, South Asian Studies Council, Yale University

Chloë Starr

Professor of Asian Christianity & Theology; Director of MAR in Asian Religions, Yale Divinity School

Michael Szonyi

Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Eric Tagliacozzo

John Stambaugh Professor of History, Department of History, Cornell University

Song Tian (田松)

Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Director of the Center for Science and Civilization, Center for the Humanities, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen

David Wang

Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Robert P. Weller

Professor of Anthropology, Department of History, Boston University

Shi Xie (謝湜)

Vice President, Professor of History, Dean of Institutes for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou

Ruby Yang

Professor of Practice, Director of Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong; Academy award-winning filmmaker