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Aihwa Ong

Head, Socio-Cultural House
Department of Anthropology
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
University of California, Berkeley
aihwaong@berkeley.edu

1999 -- 2001            Chair, Center of Southeast Asian Studies

Education
1974 --            B.A. in Anthropology (honors), Barnard College
1982 --            Ph.D. in Anthropology, Columbia University

Fellowships and Honors
2006                UC Pac Rim Grant for “Asian Biotechnology” Workshop, Honolulu
2003                UC Pac Rim Grant for “Privatizing China” Workshop, Shanghai
2002                Sloan Foundation Grant for “Oikos/anthropos: Rationality, Technology, Infrastructure” Workshop, Prague
2002-2003       MacArthur Fellowship, for study of risk and security in Asian cities
1989-90           Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for research on SE Asian immigrants

Research Experience
2005-2006    Research on biotechnology in Singapore & SE Asia
2002- 2006   Research on managerial knowledge & urban planning in Shanghai
2001 - 2002 Investigate neoliberal strategies in Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur
1999, 1998   Study managerial practices in Hong Kong, Shanghai
1996            Field trip to investigate human rights, Jakarta.
1989-91       Research on new Asian immigrants in Northern California
1979-80        Dissertation field research on peasants & factory workers in Malaysia

Professional Activities
Reviewer for Daisy & Paul Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Southeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, 1998 -- 2001
Executive Board, Society for Cultural Anthropology, 1995 – 2001
Editorial Board, Anthropology Quarterly, 2001--
Editorial Committee, Asian Journal of Women's Studies (Ewha University)

Languages
Malay-Indonesian
Mandarin
South Chinese dialects

Research/Teaching Specialization
Southeast Asia, China, US
Governmentality, citizenship, sovereignty, neoliberalism, Asian cities
Asian Islam, Chinese transnationalism, US multiculturalism, refugees.

Publications

Books
n.d.                 Absolute Privacy: The Ownership of Self in Socialist China
                       (co-editor Li Zhang), Cornell University Press.
2006               Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship & Sovereignty
                       Durham, NC: Duke University Press
2005               Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems
                       (co-editor, Stephen J. Collier), Malden, Ma.: Blackwell
2003               Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America (in Italian, 2005)
                       Berkeley: University of California Press. Leeds Prize Honorary Mention, 2005
1999             Flexible Citizenship: the Cultural Logics of Transnationalit
                       Durham: Duke University Press (in German 2005)
                       Cultural Studies Prize, Assoc. of Asian American Studies, 2001
1997               Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism
                       (co-editor, Don Nonini) New York: Routledge
1995               Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Labor Politics in Southeast Asia
                       (co-editor, Michael Peletz). Berkeley: UC Press.
1987               Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia
                       Albany: State University of New York Press.

Articles (selected)
2006               Intelligent City: From Ethnic Governmentality to Ethnic Evolution, The Other Global City: Intimations of Cosmopolitical Being in Asia
                       ed. Shail Marayam, New Delhi (forthcoming)
2005               (Re)Articulations of Citizenship
                       Political Science & Politics (October): 763-65
2004               Latitudes of Citizenship
                       People Out of Place
                       ed. by Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir
                       New York: Routledge.
                       The Chinese Axis: Zoning Technologies and Variegated Sovereignty
                       Journal of East Asian Studies 4: 69-96
2003               Higher Learning: Educational Availability and Flexible Citizenship in Global Space
                       Diversity and Citizenship Education
                       ed. James A. Banks, New York: J. Wiley, pp. 49-70
                       Oikos/Anthropos: Rationality, Technology, Infrastructure
                       (co-author Stephen J. Collier)
                       Current Anthropology, vol. 44, no. 3:421-26
                       Cyberpublics and Diaspora Politics among Transnational Chinese
                       Interventions, vol. 5, no. 1:82-100
2001               Modernity, Anthropological Aspects
                       International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 15.
                       N. J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (editors)
                       Pergamon, Oxford, pp. 9944-49.
2000               Graduated Sovereignty in Southeast Asia
                       Theory, Culture, and Society. Vo. 17, no. 4, (Aug.):55-75
1999               Muslim Feminists in the Shelter of Corporate Islam
                       Citizenship Studies Vol. 3, no. 3, (1999):355-71



International Activities
Honorary Member, Origens: Associacio Cultural, Barcelona
Co-organizer (with Nancy Chen), Asian Biotechnology, Honolulu, May 2006
Co-organizer (with Li Zhang), Privatizing China. Shanghai, June 26-27, 2004

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