Current Students

Haytham

ALTHUBAITI HAYTHAM

PhD (Anthropology)

haytham@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Business, Organisations, Humour, Middle East, Saudi Arabia

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AMIEL JANSEN DEMETRIAL

PhD (Anthropology)

ajdemetrial@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Death, Linguistic Anthropology, Visual Ethnography

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HIDEKI KITAMURA

PhD (Sociology)

hideki_kitamura@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Economic sociology; anthropology of Islam; historical sociology; Malaysia; Islamic finance

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HUAZHI QIN

PhD (Sociology)

hqin@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Education; Migration; International Student Mobility

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HU JUNHAN

PhD (Anthropology)

junhan.hu@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: indigenous environmental politics; more-than-human; religion and ecology; conservation and tourism; Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau

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LEE CHEN EN

PhD (Sociology)

e0446041@u.nus.edu

Research Interests:
Lived Experiences of Transnational Commuting: Malaysian Cross-Border Workers and the Co-Production of Urbanism in Johor Bahru and Singapore

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LIU JINHAN

PhD (Sociology)

jinhanliu@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Homeownership, Family Formation, Youth, Education, China

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LIANG YICHEN

PhD (Sociology)

liangyichen@u.nus.edu

Research Interest: Child Development, Family, Community, Gender, China

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LIM RACHYL

PhD (Sociology)

rachyl.lim@u.nus.edu

Research Interest: Organized Crime, Deviance, Trust, Singapore, East Asia, Taoism

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LIU YUANYING

PhD (Sociology)

e1154500@u.nus.edu

Research Interest: Ageing and Health; Population Studies; Cognition; Lifelong Learning; Inequality

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LOW QING YING TIMOTHY

PhD (Sociology)

timothylow@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Sociology of Health and Illness, Life course and Aging, Social Demography, Sociology of Family, Southeast Asia

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MO YAN

PhD (Sociology)

moyan@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Ageing and Health, Population Studies, Research Methods

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NI ANNI

PhD (Sociology)

anni.ni@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Gender and migration, Motherhood, China

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NG JIA HAN, BERNARD

PhD (Anthropology)

bernard.ngjh@u.nus.edu

Research Interests:
Nusantara's Plan: Infrastructure and Sustainability Transformation in Sabah

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PAKEEZEH (PADMINI) BARUAH

PhD (Anthropology)

pbaruah@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Migration, Statelessness, Gender Studies, Land Rights.

Yaxuan

SU YAXUAN

PhD (Anthropology)

yaxuan.su@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Borders and Borderlands, Gender and Mobility, Transnational Relatedness, Digital Labor, Human Trafficking

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SUN MINGQIAN

PhD (Sociology)

mingqiansun@u.nus.edu 

Research Interests: Social Policy; Inequality; Work and Family; Population Studies  

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TAN YEOW HUI, BRIAN

PhD (Anthropology)

e1448147@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Religion, Catholicism, Education, Social Networks, Social Histories

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TINNAPHOP SINSOMBOONTHONG

PhD (Sociology)

e1154483@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Queer Theory, Sociology of Human Rights, Sociology of Humor, Postcolonial/Decolonial Theory, and Internet Culture

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YANG BIYING

PhD (Sociology)

yangbiying@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Ageing, Retirement, Population Health; Intergenerational Relationship

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YAP WAY SHEN RUSSELL JAMES JR

PhD (Anthropology)

russellyap@u.nus.edu

Research Interests:
Why we work: an anthropological investigation into the lived experiences of gay men in Singapore

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ZHANG YUXIN

PhD (Sociology)

yuxin.zhang@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Health, Demography, Gender

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ZHOU XIAOYU

PhD (Sociology)

e1632489@u.nus.edu

Research Interests: Gender, Migration, Civic Participation, Qualitative Methods