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
Thesis title	Women and Industry: Malay Peasants in Coastal Selangor, 1975-80
Thesis year	1982
Doctoral advisor	Robert F. Murphy
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.

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).

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.

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).

Personal Page http://www.aihwaong.info