52. Helen Siu, Professor of Anthropology and Member of the Council on East Asian Studies.

Since the 1970s, she has conducted historical and ethnographic fieldwork in South China and Hong Kong, examining socialist and post-socialist transformations, the revival of market towns, community festivals and rituals, and lately, migration and vernacular modernity. She served as an overseas member of the University Grants Committee and the Research Grant's Council in Hong Kong for which she was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star. In the U.S. she served on the Committee for Advanced Study in China and the National Screening Committee for Fulbright awards. In 2001, she set up the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Institute promotes creative, interdisciplinary research that aims to bond scholars in major universities in North America, Europe, China and Hong Kong. Her teaching interests are historical and political anthropology, urban anthropology and global change, culture, history, power and representation. She has written numerous articles and book chapters.