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Shirley Hsiao-Li SUN
孫曉莉
Associate Professor of Sociology
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
14 Nanyang Drive, HSS-05-48, Singapore 637332
Tel: 65.6316.8832
Email:
[email protected]
EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
2005
Ph.D. Sociology, New York University
1997
M.A. Sociology, New York University
1995
B.A.
Economics, College of Law, National Taiwan University
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2016-present
Assistant Dean (Research 2017 onwards; Undergraduate Education
2016-2017), College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
(CoHASS), Nanyang Technological University
2014-2015
Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British
Columbia (UBC), Canada
2013-present
Associate Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University.
2005-2013
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University
(NTU). Singapore.
2002-2005
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, New York University. U.S.A.
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RESEARCH
Publications
Books/Monographs
Sun, Shirley. 2017. Socio-economics of Personalized Medicine in Asia. London and
New York: Routledge. (http://www.routledge.com/products/9781138933835)
This book contributes to a growing body of literature on the molecularization of
identities by offering an explanation for how dominant social actors and institutions
involved in the creation, development, and implementation of personalized/precision
medicine think about “population” in Asia and beyond, particularly in relation to cancer
prevention and treatment. It shows that there are inextricable transnational linkages
between developing and developed countries, and examines the various social forces
shaping the "co-production" of genomic science, medicine and social order in
transnational settings. Theoretically guided and empirically grounded, the book
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provides important insights into the formation and usage of racial and ethnic human
taxonomies in population-based genomic science and medicine.
Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore:
Making Future Citizens. London and New York: Routledge.
(http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415670685)
This book examines the relationship between population policies and individual
reproductive decisions in low fertility contexts through the theoretical lens of
citizenship. It demonstrates that the effectiveness of population policy is a combined
function of competing notions of citizenship, and the gap between seemingly neutral
policy incentives and the perceived and experienced disparate effects.
Journal Articles
1) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li, Chong Wen-Ee, and Lim, Si Hui. 2014, “Gender and Divorce
in Contemporary Singapore.” In “Changing Chinese Families” A special issue of
Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 65(1):127-143. [SSCI]
2) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Care expectations, mismatched: State and family in
contemporary Singapore.” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy,1 Vol.
32 (11): 650-663. [ARCI]
3) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Decision-makers’ framing, knowledge, and perceptions:
Social class and pronatalist population policies in Singapore.” Social & Public Policy
Review,2 Vol. 6 (1): 40-66.
4) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Social Reproduction and the Limits of a Neo-Liberal
Approach to Citizenship.” Citizenship Studies, Vol. 16 (2): 223-240. [SSCI]
5) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2010. “From Citizen-Duty to State-Responsibility:
Globalization and Nationhood in Singapore.” New Global Studies,3 Vol. 4 (3): 1-26.
6) Lin, Trisha Tsui-Chuan and Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun. 2010. “Connection as a Form of
Resisting Control: Mobile Phone Usage of Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore.”
Media Asia: An Asian Communication Quarterly, Vol. 37 (4): 183-192. [ARCI]
7) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2010. “The ‘Final Say’ is not the Last Word: Gendered
Patterns, Perceptions, and Processes in Household Decision-making among Chinese
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ARC-Indexed journals refer to journals included in the Australian Research Council (ARC) journal index. The
Australian government established the Australian Research Council journal ranking to facilitate evaluating
faculty performance and the distribution of research funding.
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The journal Social & Public Policy Review is an international peer reviewed journal established in 2007. The
editorial board can be found on the websit: http://www.uppress.co.uk/socialpublicpolicyreview.htm
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The journal New Global Studies is under review for the Thomson/ISI Social Science Citation. The editors are:
Nayan Chanda (Yale University), Akira Iriye (Harvard University), Bruce Mazlish (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology), and Saskia Sassen (Columbia University).
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Immigrant Couples in Canada.” Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology
and Sociology,4 Vol. 1 (1): 91-115.
8) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2009. “Re-producing Citizens: Gender, Employment, and
Work-Family-Balance Policies in Singapore.” Journal of Workplace Rights, Vol. 14
(3): 351-374. [SSCI]
9) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2008. “Not Just a Business Transaction: the Logic and Limits
of Grandparental Childcare Assistance in Taiwan.” Childhood: New Themes in the
Sociology of Childhood, Vol. 15 (2): 203-224. [SSCI and ARCI]
10) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2008. “Housework and Gender in Nuclear versus Extended
Family Households: Experiences of Taiwanese Immigrants in Canada.” Journal of
Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 39 (1): 1-19. [SSCI and ARCI]
Book Chapters (refereed)
1) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Grandparents as ‘Moral Guardians’ in the Context of
Care for Grandchildren by Foreign Domestic Workers.” Pp.113-136 in Contemporary
Grandparenting: Changing Family Relationship in a Global Context, edited by S.
Arber and V. Timonen. Bristol, UK: The Policy Press.
2) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2008. “The “Right” Citizen/Family versus the Right to
Citizenship/Family: State Policies Regarding Foreign Workers in South Korea, Japan
and Singapore.” Pp. 363-394 in Social Subsumption and Exclusion in East Asia,
edited by Dong No Kim. Seoul, Korea: Yonsei University Press.
Book Review
Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li and Jui-Chung Allen Li. 2014. “Thung-Hong Lin 林宗弘 et al.,
Beng shidai: Caituan hua, pinqiong hua, yu shao zinu hua de weiji 崩世代：財團化、貧
窮化與少子女化的危機 [Generation of Collapse: Crises of Capital Monopoly, Poverty,
and the Lowest Fertility in Taiwan] East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An
International Journal 8:143–146.
Articles In Progress
1) Shao-Tzu Li, Shirley Sun, Desiree Lie, Marie Met-Domestici, Rebecca Dent, Lim
Geok Hoon, and Joanne Ngeow, “Factors Influencing Sharing of Genetic Information:
An In-depth Interview Study of Hereditary Breast Cancer Patients In Singapore”
2) Sun, Shirley and Joanne Ngeow, “Factors Influencing Taking Up Predictive Genetic
Testing: An In-depth Interview Study of Hereditary Breast Cancer Patients In
Singapore”
3) Sun, Shirley, book review, “Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life,”
East Asian Science, Technology and Society, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
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A new interdisciplinary journal established in 2010. The international editorial board includes Sociologist Loïc
Wacquant (University of California – Berkeley). The journal website: http://compaso.ro/editors/
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Conference and Workshop Papers
1) Sun, Shirley, 2016 “Big Data, Personalized Medicine and Cancer in Comparative
Perspectives,” Paper presented at the Big Data in Asian Society workshop, October
27-28, 2016, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2) Sun, Shirley, 2016, “Post-Genomic Medicine and the remaking of race/ethnicity in
Asia”, September 1st, 2016, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) / EASST
(European Association for the Study of Science and Technology) joint annual
conference “Science and Technology by Other Means”, August 31st -September 3rd,
2017, Barcelona, Spain.
3) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2015, “Care migration in selected countries in Asia,” April 21st,
presented at the workshop “Gender, Migration and the Work of Care: McDaniel
Project Workshop,” University of Calgary, Canada.
4) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2015, “Personalized Medicine and Asian DNA:
Pharmacogenomics and Market Forces,” April 22nd, University of Lethbridge, Canada.
5) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2014, “Between race and ethnicity: Globalization and genomic
medicine in Singapore,” December 4th, presented at the workshop “Genomic
Sovereignty in a Global Context: Comparative Exchanges in Justice, Ethics and
Genomic Medicine,” Brocher Foundation, Switzerland.
6) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2014, “The study of human genetic variation in a transnational
context: Asianism and the racialization of ethnicity,” August 16th, American
Sociological Association annual meeting 2014, San Francisco, U.S.A.
7) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2014, “Evolving liberal familialism in Singapore,” August 17,
American Sociological Association annual meeting 2014, San Francisco, U.S.A.
8) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2013, “Gender and Divorce in Contemporary Singapore.”
Presented at the international conference “Social Reproduction and Gender Justice:
Mechanism in Family, School Campus and Workplace in Taiwan,” October 4-5,
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
9) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2013. “Between personalized medicine and racialized
medicine: the story of IRESSA.” Presented at the American Sociological Association
annual meeting, August 10, New York City.
10) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2013. “Exploring Post-Divorce Experiences among
Professional Women in Singapore.” Presented at the North American Chinese
Sociologist Association (NACSA), August 9, New York City.
11) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2013. Reconsidering Race, Texas A&M University, May 3-4,
College Station, Texas, USA.
12) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li, and Chong, Wen Ee. 2013. “Exploring Post-Divorce
Experiences among Professional Women in Singapore.” Presented at the International
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Sociological Association RC06 seminar “Demographic and Institutional Change in
Global Families,” March 28-30, Taipei, Taiwan.
13) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2013. “Low fertility and the politics of population: the case of
Singapore.” Presented at “Citizenship, Identity, and Community” workshop, February
28, organized by Campus Asia and the East Asian University Institute, the School of
Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
14) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Claims-making about personal genomics vs. the use of
group taxonomies.” Presented at Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences
conference, August 15-16, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
15) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Deconstructing and reifying ‘Asian’ and ethnicities in
Asia: Exploring HUGO pan-Asian SNP consortium’s work.” Presented at the 2nd
International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology, August 1-4,
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
16) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Between economic competitiveness and reproductive
justice: persistent low-fertility and social policies in the developmental state of
Singapore.” Presented at the Social Policy Association/East Asian Social Policy
Network joint conference, July 16-18, York, UK.
17) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Pronatalist policies in the context of a liberal familial
welfare system in Asia.” Presented at the 2nd International Sociological Association
(ISA) Forum of Sociology, August 1-4, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
18) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Between ‘state-licensed’ and ‘state-supported’ of social
care in Singapore.” Presented at Kookmin University, May 24-25, Seoul, South Korea.
19) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Population policy and reproduction in Singapore.”
Presented at the Institute of Sociology, Academic Sinica, April 13, Taipei, Taiwan
20) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Care regime in Singapore in the 1990s and 2000s.”
Presented at the Global Center of Excellence (GCOE), Kyoto University, April 7-8,
Kyoto, Japan.
21) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Citizenship in Singapore and Canada: Issues of Social
Justice and Economic Integration.” Presented at the “Citizenship Worlds in Motion”
roundtable, co-organized National University of Singapore and University of British
Columbia, supported by the Canadian High Commission (Singapore), February 21,
the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.
22) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Molecularization of ethnicities in Asia and some
preliminary implications for population-based medicine.” Presented at the annual
meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Feb 23-26, New York City, USA
23) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Ethnic differences in fertility rates, women’s
educational attainment, and pronatalist policies in Singapore.” Presented at the annual
meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Feb 23-26, New York City, USA.
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24) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Population policies and the changing nature of
citizenship.” Presented at the Capstone seminar, February 7, Singapore Management
University (SMU), Singapore.
25) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. “Incentives and Disincentives of Reproduction:
Women’s Education Attainment and Fertility Decisions in Singapore.” Presented at
the Vienna Institute of Demography, December 1, Vienna, Austria.
26) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. “How the Education System in a Developmental State
Impacts Low Fertility: the Case of Singapore.” Presented at the International
Sociological Association RC06 meeting September 12, Kyoto, Japan.
27) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. “The Asian Care Regime Change in the 21st century”
Presented at the Global Center of Excellence (GCOE), Kyoto University, September
6, Kyoto, Japan
28) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. “Care Regimes in Asia: Singapore, a preliminary
review.” Presented at the Global Center of Excellence (GCOE), Kyoto University,
July 3, Kyoto, Japan.
29) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. “Exploring the Purchases and Pitfalls of a Pan-Asian
framework in Human Genetics Studies.” Presented at the international workshop
“Interface between Humanities and Genomics,” organized by the Institute for
Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, January 22, Kyoto, Japan.
30) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. “The State and Family in Childbearing Decisions in
Singapore.” Presented at the international conference “Care Regimes in Asia”
organized by the Global Center of Excellence (GCOE), Kyoto University, January 16,
Kyoto, Japan.
31) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2010. “Projected versus Lived Citizenship in a Productivist
Social Investment State.” Presented at the annual meeting of American Sociological
Association, August 14-17, Atlanta, Georgia.
32) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2010. “Pronatalist Policies and Childbearing Decisions: The
Logic and Limits of the Developmental Welfare States.” Presented at the XVII World
Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, July 11-17,
Gothenburg, Sweden.
33) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2010. “Knowledge, Aspiration, and Reproductive Choices:
Pronatalist Policies and Women’s Fertility Decisions in Singapore.” Presented at the
XVII World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, July 1117, Gothenburg, Sweden.
34) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2010. “The Logic and Limits of Grandparental Childcare
Assistance.” International Sociological Association Meeting Integrative Session
(RC06 Family Research, RC11 Aging, and RC53 Childhood), July 15, Gothenburg,
Sweden.
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35) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2010. “‘National’ Policies and Citizens Responses:
Pronatalism in Singapore.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Asian Studies on
the Pacific Coast (ASPAC), June 18-20, Portland, Oregon.
36) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2010. “‘National’ Policies and Citizens Responses:
Pronatalism in Singapore.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian
Sociological Association, May 31 – June 4, Montreal, Quebec.
37) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2010. “Citizenship and pronatalistm in Singapore.” Presented
at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society. March 18-21, Boston, MA.
38) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2009. “Low fertility, Pronatalism, and the Logic and Limits of
Productivist Welfare State.” Institute of European and American Studies, Academic
Sinica, December 23, Taipei, Taiwan.
39) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2009. “Pronatalism in Singapore: Educational Attainment and
Individual Childbearing Decisions.” Asia Research Institute, National University of
Singapore, October 19, Singapore.
40) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2009. “Cultural models, mismatched: gender, work-family
balance policy and Childbearing decisions in Singapore.” Presented at the 104th
annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. August 8-11, San
Francisco, California.
41) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2009. “The Silent Salience of Class Bias: Pronatalist
Economic Incentives and Childbearing Decisions in Singapore.” Presented at the
104th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. August 8-11, San
Francisco, California.
42) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2009. “Making Future Citizens: Population Control and
Childbearing Decisions in Singapore.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of Canadian
Sociological Association. May 26 – 29, Ottawa, Canada.
43) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2009. “The Silent Salience of Class Bias: Pronatalist Policies
and Childbearing Decisions in Singapore.” Presented at “Asian Social Protection in
Comparative Perspective,” an international conference co-organized by the
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management & the National University of
Singapore. January 7-9, Singapore.
44) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2008. “Between Competition and Companionship: A Tough
Choice in Childbearing Decisions in Singapore.” Presented at the First International
Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, September 5-8, Barcelona, Spain.
45) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2008. “Gendered Patterns, Perceptions, and Processes in
Familial Decision-making.” Presented at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American
Sociological Association. August 1-4, Boston, MA.
46) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2008. “Population Policies and Birth Rates in Singapore.”
Presented at the annual meeting of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC).
June 13-15, Victoria, BC, Canada.
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47) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2007. “The Logic and Limits of Grandparental Childcare
Assistance in Confucian Asia.” Presented at the 102nd annual meeting of the
American Sociological Association. August 11-14, New York City, NY.
48) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2007. “The “Right” Citizen / Family versus the Right to
Citizenship / Family: State Policies Regarding Foreign Workers in South Korea,
Japan and Singapore.” Presented at the “Changing Asian Family as a Site of State
Politics” international conference. April 26-27, NUS, Singapore.
49) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2006. “Familial Embeddedness as a Double-edged Sword:
Filial Piety and the Reproduction of Division of Household Labor.” Presented at the
101st annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. August 11-14,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
50) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2006. “Cellphone Usage and Everyday Resistance of Live-in
Maids in Singapore.” Presented at the 101st annual meeting of the American
Sociological Association. August 11-14, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
51) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2006. “Culture, Kinship, and Economic Dependency in the
Family.” Presented at the XVI International Sociological Association World
Congress. July 23-29, Durban, South Africa.
52) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2006. “Not Just a Business Transaction: the Logic and Limits
of Grandparental Childcare Assistance in Confucian Asia.” Presented at the XVI
International Sociological Association World Congress. July 23-29, Durban, South
Africa.
53) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2006. “Cellphone Usage and Everyday Resistance of Live-in
Maids in Singapore.” Presented at the ASEAN Inter-University Seminars, July 19-21,
Hanoi, Vietnam.
54) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2006. “Isolation without Privacy: Cellphone Usage and
Everyday Resistance of Live-in Maids in Singapore.” Presented at the annual meeting
of the International Communication Association. June 19-23, Dresden, Germany.
55) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2005. “Gender Inequality Misrecognized: Family Structure,
Filial Piety, and the Household Division of Labor.” Presented at the 100th annual
meeting of the American Sociological Association. August 13-16, Philadelphia, PA,
USA.
Ph.D Thesis
Between Duty and Virtue: Family Structures, Filial Piety and Married Women’s
Employment in Taiwan. Department of Sociology, New York University, May, 2005.
New York City, NY.
Professional Appointments
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1) Editorial Board Member, Journal of Chinese Overseas, Leiden and Boston: Brill
(June 2014 onwards)
2) Associate Editor, Journal of Chinese Overseas, Leiden and Boston: Brill (March 2013
– May 2014).
3) Assistant Editor, Journal of Chinese Overseas, Leiden and Boston: Brill (August
2011–March 2013).
4) Associate Member, The Changing Family Cluster, Asia Research Institute, National
University of Singapore (2011-present)
Fellowships & Research Grants Received
1) Co-Principal Investigator, “Understanding patient experience with BRCA gene testing:
in-depth patients interviews,” Principal Investigator Dr. Joanne Ngeow, National
Cancer Centre (CIRB ref no: 2015/2102/F; 2015-2017).
2) Principal Investigator
Project title: “Ethical and Social Implications of Prominent Human Genetic Research
in Asia”
Funding scheme/agency: Academic Research Fund (AcRF Tier 1), Singapore
Ministry of Education. The grant was awarded on a competitive basis (SGD$149,729
or USD$113,794; March 2011-May 2015).
3) Research Fellow
Funding scheme/agency: NUS/NTU-Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(JSPS) Scientist Exchange Programme (Kyoto University; Jan. 10 – 21, 2011);
Fellowship awarded on a competitive basis (JPY$105,250, or USD$1375.46; 20102011).
4) Principal Investigator
Project title: “Multi-level Analysis of the Impact of State Population Policies on Birth
Rates in Singapore since 1987”
Funding scheme/agency: Academic Research Fund (AcRF Tier 1), Singapore
Ministry of Education. The grant was awarded on a competitive basis.
(SGD$98,288.35, or USD$73,000; 2006-2009).
5) Principal Investigator
Project title: “State-Society Relations in the Management of Foreign Workers in
Singapore” Funding scheme/agency: NTU internal start-up grant for the project
(SGD$4,996, or USD$3,750; 2005-2006).
6) New York University Teaching Assistantship (annual tuition grants + US$15,000
stipend). The scholarship was awarded on a competitive basis (2000-2005).
7) New York University Teaching and Methods/Statistics Graduate Assistantships
(annual tuition grants + US$10,000 stipend). The scholarship was awarded on a
competitive basis (1997-1998).
Research Achievements and Impact
Selected reviews of Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore: Making Future
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Citizens
1) Contemporary Sociology (Vol. 43, No. 1, pp.121-122)
2) Pacific Affairs (2013; Vol. 86, No. 3)
3) New Asia Books (2013; http://www.newasiabooks.org/publication/population-policyand-reproduction-singapore-making-future-citizens#comment-23044)
4) Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (2013, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 481-492)
5) Social Forces (September 22, 2012)
6) Southeast Asian Studies (2012, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 355-357)
7) Journal of Population Studies (2012, Vol. 44, pp. 191-194)
8) Southeast Asian Review of English5 (2012, No. 50, pp. 239-241)
9) Journal of International Woman’s Studies (2012, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 197-200)
10) Journal of Chinese Overseas (2012, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 291-293)
Reviews in Chinese:
1) Journal of Population Studies (2012, Vol. 44, pp. 195-204)
2) The International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies (2012, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 111114)
Invited Presentations
(Extracted from the full list of conference papers)
1) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2015, “Care migration in selected countries in Asia,” April 21st,
presented at the workshop “Gender, Migration and the Work of Care: McDaniel
Project Workshop,” University of Calgary, Canada. (Airfare and accommodation
paid).
2) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2015, “Personalized Medicine and Asian DNA:
Pharmacogenomics and Market Forces,” April 22nd, University of Lethbridge, Canada.
(Airfare and accommodation paid).
3) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2014, “Between race and ethnicity: Globalization and genomic
medicine in Singapore,” December 4th, presented at the workshop “Genomic
Sovereignty in a Global Context: Comparative Exchanges in Justice, Ethics and
Genomic Medicine,” Brocher Foundation, Switzerland. (Airfare and accommodation
paid).
4) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2013, “Gender and Divorce in Contemporary Singapore.”
Presented at the international conference “Social Reproduction and Gender Justice:
Mechanism in Family, School Campus and Workplace in Taiwan,” October 4-5,
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan (Airfare and accommodation paid).
5) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2013. Reconsidering Race, Texas A&M University, May 3-4,
College Station, Texas, USA (Airfare and accommodation paid).
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This review is published in the Special Journal Issue of Southeast Asian Review of English (SARE), which is
the Journal of the Malaysian Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Association (MACLALS). This
special issue – which focuses on Malaysian and Singaporean Literature – marks its 30th anniversary in
publication.
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6) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Claims-making about personal genomics vs. the use of
group taxonomies.” Presented at Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences
conference, August 15-16, Boulder, Colorado, USA (An honorarium of USD$500.00).
7) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Between economic competitiveness and reproductive
justice: persistent low-fertility and social policies in the developmental state of
Singapore.” Presented at the Social Policy Association/East Asian Social Policy
Network joint conference, July 16-18, York, UK (Airfare and accommodation paid).
8) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Between ‘state-licensed’ and ‘state-supported’ of social
care in Singapore.” Presented at Kookmin University, May 24-25, Seoul, South Korea.
(Airfare and accommodation paid).
9) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Population policy and reproduction in Singapore.”
Presented at the Institute of Sociology, Academic Sinica, April 13, Taipei, Taiwan
(Airfare, accommodation and an honorarium of NTD$4,000).
10) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Care regime in Singapore in the 1990s and 2000s.”
Presented at the Global Center of Excellence (GCOE), Kyoto University, April 7-8,
Kyoto, Japan (Honorarium JPY$250,000).
11) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2012. “Citizenship in Singapore and Canada: Issues of Social
Justice and Economic Integration.” Presented at the “Citizenship Worlds in Motion”
roundtable, co-organized National University of Singapore and University of British
Columbia, supported by the Canadian High Commission (Singapore), February 21,
the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.
12) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. Panelist, “Education and the Global Fertility Transition.”
Presented at the Vienna Institute of Demography, December 1, Vienna, Austria.
13) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. “Population policies and the changing nature of
citizenship.” Presented at the National Chengchi University (NCCU), October 17,
Taipei, Taiwan.
14) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. ““How the Education System in a Developmental State
Impacts Low Fertility: the Case of Singapore.” Presented at the International
Sociological Association RC06 CFR seminar, Kyoto University, September 11-15,
Kyoto, Japan (JPY$105,366).
15) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. “The Asian Care Regime Change in the 21st century”
Presented at the Global Center of Excellence (GCOE), Kyoto University, September
6, Kyoto, Japan (Honorarium JPY$20,000).
16) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. “Care Regimes in Asia: Singapore, a preliminary
review.” Presented at the Global Center of Excellence (GCOE), Kyoto University,
July 3, Kyoto, Japan (JPY$200,873).
17) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. “Exploring the Purchases and Pitfalls of a Pan-Asian
framework in Human Genetics Studies.” Presented at the international workshop
“Interface between Humanities and Genomics,” organized by the Institute for
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Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, January 22, Kyoto, Japan (January 22-23,
2011; JPY$48,000).
18) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. “The State and Family in Childbearing Decisions in
Singapore.” Presented at the international conference “Care Regimes in Asia”
organized by the Global Center of Excellence (GCOE), Kyoto University, January 16,
Kyoto, Japan.
19) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2010. “The Logic and Limits of Grandparental Childcare
Assistance.” International Sociological Association Meeting Integrative Session
(RC06 Family Research, RC11 Aging, and RC53 Childhood), July 15, Gothenburg,
Sweden.
20) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2009. “Low fertility, Pronatalism, and the Logic and Limits of
Productivist Welfare State.” Institute of European and American Studies, Academic
Sinica, December 23, Taipei, Taiwan (TWD$3,000).
International Workshop and Conference Program Organizer
1) “Big Data in Asian Society.” October 27-28, 2016, CoHASS, NTU. Co-organized and
co-chaired with Hallam Stevens (History, NTU), and sponsored by the School of
Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), and the Center for Liberal Arts and Social
Sciences (CLASS) at the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
2) Organizer and chair, “Inter-ethnic families in Asia.” the XVIII ISA World Congress
of Sociology, July 13-19, 2014, Yokohama, Japan.
3) Co-organizer and chair, “Gender, Work and Family under Globalized Economy: Asia
& beyond.” Co-organized with Esther Chow (American University, USA) and YuHsia Lu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) for the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology,
July 13-19, 2014, Yokohama, Japan.
4) “Biology, Medicine and Race beyond the Genome.” January 16-18, 2013, HSS, NTU.
Co-organized and co-chaired with Hallam Stevens (History, NTU), and sponsored by
the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), the Center for Liberal Arts and
Social Sciences (CLASS), and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS).
Invited Reviewer for International Peer-reviewed Journals
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Journal of Social Policy (Cambridge)
TRaNS: Trans –Regional and –National Studies of Southeast Asia (Cambridge)
Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (Scalabrini Migration Center, Philippines; ISI)
EurAmerica: A Journal of European and American Studies (published in English;
Acadmia Sinica; TSSCI)
Journal of Family Issues (SAGE; SSCI)
Citizenship Studies (Taylor and Francis; SSCI)
Asian Journal of Communication Studies (Taylor and Francis; SSCI)
Journal of Population Studies (published in English, National Taiwan University;
TSSCI)
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Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies (台灣社會研究季刊; TSSCI & ACI)
Sociological Perspectives (University of California Press)
Board Memberships in International Professional Committees
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Member, nomination committee, RC06-Family Research (2013-2014)
Board member, RC32 Women in Society, International Sociological Association
(2010-2014)
Board member, RC53 Childhood, International Sociological Association (2010-2014)
TEACHING
Awards and Honors
Nanyang Technological University Certificate of Honor, Mentorship of Chia Jun Jie, Koh
Boon Hwee Scholar 2014
Courses Taught
Nanyang Technological University (2005-Present)
Bachelor of Arts (Sociology)
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2)
3)
4)
HS101/HS1001
HS202
HS214/HS2014
HS312/HS318/HS3018
5) HS4015
6) HS4001/4901
Person and Society
Doing Social Research
The Changing Family
Sociology of Gender and Sexuality/Sociology of
Gender
Advanced Seminar: Sociology of Reproduction
Research practicum I: Qualitative Social Research
Master of Arts (Sociology)
7) HS7003
Theory and Methods in Social Research
Master of Arts in Contemporary China (MACC)
8) CC6300
Social Change and Inequality in Contemporary China
NTU International Summer School in China Programme
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Venue: Tianjin, China
Period: 2.5 weeks between 29 June to 4 August 2013
Designation: Course Leader and Instructor
Responsibilities: To co-develop and co-teach a course on “The Changing Family in
Global Contexts”, with faculty from partner university
Expected number of students: 40 with about 50% to 60% from NTU; the rest will be a
mix from partner universities.
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Partner universities:
- University of Toronto (Canada);
- Simon Fraser University (Canada);
- Bryn Mawr College (US);
- Haverford College (US);
- Tianjin University (China);
- Nankai University (China); and possibly
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (UK); as
well as Rice University (US)
New York University (2002-2005)
Bachelor of Arts (Sociology)
9) Sex and Gender
10) Deviance and Social Control
Teaching Evaluations
Summary: Student Feedback on Teaching (SFT) scores for all courses has been above the
School average throughout the years.
Average 3 years mean: Lecture: 85.04; Tutorial: 90.75; Seminar: 90.53
Acad
Year
AY13/14
AY13/14
AY13/14
AY15/16
AY15/16
AY16/17
Semester
1
1
2
1
1
2
2
1
1
2
Course
Code
HS1001
HS3018
HS4015
HS4015
HS2014
HS4001
HS4901
HS1001
HS4015
HS2014
HS2014
HS2014
HS2014
HS2014
LEC
Tutorial
or
Mean
SMR
Index
Index
82.37
89.91
88.26
90.66
81.77
88.54
87.14
86.83
92.2
86.6
90.46
85.71
91.4
97.14
NTU International Summer School (23 June to 16 July 2017)
“HS3058: Ethical and Social Issues in Genomic Science”
NTU International Summer School (1 July to 12 July 2013; Class Size 27)
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Summer School 2013: Summary of Feedback
Mean Score
(Full score = 5)
Evaluation Area
Overall Satisfaction of Programme
4.6
Course Evaluation: HS2014 Shirley Sun
4.6
SFT equivalent Score
92.4
CC6300
AY2011-2012, Semester 2, 26 students, Score: 87% (school average:
85%)
2010-2011
Most Popular Professor Award nomination School of Humanities and
Social Sciences (HSS) students voting competition.
2009-2010
Nanyang Award for Excellence in Teaching nomination
2008-2009
Nanyang Award for Excellence in Teaching nomination
2006-07& 2007-08
Favourite Professor of the Division of Sociology, School of Humanities
and Social Sciences (HSS) students voting competition.
Postgraduate Student Supervision
Ph.D
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Supervisor, Shiwei CHEN, Division of Sociology, NTU
Supervisor, Daniel LEE, Division of Sociology, NTU
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Ph.D. thesis external examiner, Li Li, “Work-related Smartphone Dependency among
Young Working Adults in Urban China: An Examination of the Dependency
Relations, Antecedents, and Consequences (2016-2017).
M.A.
 MA thesis internal examiner, George Wong. “A critical ethnography of Filipino
foreign domestic workers’ day-off leisure experiences in Singapore.” Division of
Sociology, Nanyang Technological University (2015-2016).
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MA thesis internal examiner, Kym Yeo Yun Ling. “Guanxi 2.0: Ties that bind.”
Master of the Arts in Contemporary China (MACC), Nanyang Technological
University (2015-2016).
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MA thesis internal examiner, Christabelle He Shimin. “Encounter with Chinese
Exchange Students in Japan”. Master of the Arts in Contemporary China (MACC),
Nanyang Technological University (2012-2013).
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MA thesis external examiner, Ng Siow San. “Intergenerational voices: identity,
traditions and modernity.” Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia (20102011).
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MA thesis committee member, Qi Yan. “The tricky narrative of Charlie Marlow,”
Division of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore (2008-2009).
Undergraduate Research Experience on CAmpus (URECA)
Supervised the following URECA projects:
 Goh Pei Xuan (Sociology/SSS), Jeslynn Soh Jia Min (Sociology/SSS), and S
Shalini D/O Sivakrishnan (PPGA/SSS), 2016-2017
 Murni Nadra Binte Abdul Rahim (HSS) 2015-2016
 Lucas Neo (HSS) 2013-2014
 Jun Jie Chua (HSS) 2011-2012
 Yona Lu (HSS) 2011-2012
 Koh Wei Jia (College of Engineering: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
2010-2011
 Lim Yi Chiew (College of Engineering: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
2010-2011
 Ha Pham Doan Trang (HSS) 2008-2009;
 Loh Ming Hui (HSS), 2008-2009;
 Hemavalli D/O Singaram Padmannathan (HSS), 2006-2007 & 2007-2008
 Ha Pham Doan Trang is now a PhD in Sociology at the University of Minnesota
 Jun Jie Chua won the NTU-Koh Boon Hwee Scholar 2014 and presented his
URECA project at the Asian Studies Association Australia (ASAA), 2012 annual
meeting
Graduation Essay (Final Year Project)
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Supervised 7 individual graduation essays (2016-2017)
Supervised yearly individual graduation essays, on a variety of subjects related to the
changing family, gender relations, Singapore, public policies, and others, since 2008
(when the first batch of NTU Sociology students were doing their FYPs).
SERVICE
Service to the University
1) Member, NTU Teaching Council, 1 August 2016-30 June 2017. Conducting 5 peer
reviews of teaching for tenure-track assistant professors applying for tenure.
2) Member, NTU Teaching Council, 1 August 2015-30 June 2016. Conducting 4 peer
reviews of teaching for tenure-track assistant professors applying for tenure.
3) Panelist, Orientation Programme for New Faculty Members, 28 January 2014
4) Member, University Scholars Programme (USP) Programme Management Committee
(PMC), (Feb 2012 – Feb 2015)
5) Reviewer, NTURC Sub-Committee for the Discipline Cluster: EP4-Accountancy,
Business, Humanities and Social Sciences (15 Dec 2011 – present)
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6) Faculty mentor, Temasek Foundation Leadership Enrichment and Regional
Networking Programme (TF-NTU LEaRN Programme) AY2011-2012
Service to the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CoHASS) and the School
of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)
CoHASS
1) Assistant Dean (undergraduate education), College of Humanities, Arts and Social
Sciences (CoHASS), 1 January 2016 – present
 Coordinate Science, Technology, and Society (STS) research activities, such
as organizing the Big Data in Asian Society international workshop and the
ICAS10 panel on Big Data
 Participate in the NTU Outreach and Publicity committee meetings and
 Develop the STS Minor
 Review CoHASS course proposals
 Serve as a panelist for various university scholarship award interviews;
 Serve as a delegate for inter-university collaborations
2) Chair and panelist, Panel on Ethical Issues in Diagnosis and Bio-Ethics. Joint
workshop by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Sorbonne
Universities, Paris. 2-4 June, 2016.
3) Member, the CoHASS delegation, Stockholm University, 26-30 May, 2014, Sweden
HSS
4) Co-Coordinator, “Humanities, Sciences and Society” (HSS@HSS) research cluster, 1
January 2012 – 31 July 2017
5) Member, Preliminary Inquiry Panel (PIP), April 2014
6) Search committee member, Public Policy and Global Affairs (PPGA) Programme
Assistant Professor search
7) Member, organizing committee, HSS@HSS “Global STS” international conference,
14-15 March 2014
8) HSS Speaker/Presenter, Let's Talk NTU 2014 event, 18 January 2014, Suntec
Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre
9) Participant, EU-Asia workshop “Population dynamics in East and South East Asia:
Key policy questions and gaps” London, UK (March 29-30, 2012)
10) Presenter, New Silk Road Workshop, NTU, Singapore (March 22-23, 2012)
11) Participant, “Science and nature in Europe and Asia: Scientific traditions and new
technologies” at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, the
Netherlands. (October 20-21, 2011)
12) Reviewer, Post-Doctoral Fellowship Application (2011-2012)
13) Member, HSS Task Force on "Research Coordination and Overall Processes" (20102011).
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14) Member, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) undergraduate
curriculum committee (2005-2011).
Service to the Division of Sociology
1) Member, Medical Sociology Search Committee, 2017
2) Member, Management Committee (MC), August 2015-July 2017
3) Acting Graduation Projects (GP) Coordinator, January 2016-July 2016
4) Member, Undergraduate Academic Matters committee (2013-present)
5) Member, Research Committee (2010-present)
6) Coordinator, Research Seminars (2009-2013)
7) Member, Faculty Recruitment and Management Committee (2005-2009)
8) Coordinator, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2005-2009)
9) Coordinator, Undergraduate Studies (2005-2008)
10) Coordinator, Undergraduate Admission and Publicity Committee (2005-2008)
- Responsible for coordinating and conducting the undergraduate admission
interviews and tests (over 200 individuals each admission exercise) and public
talks
11) Member, Graduate Studies Committee (2005-2008)
Other collaborative efforts and good institutional citizenry:
- Chair, PhD confirmation committees for Prof. Saidul Islam’s students Shaikh
Muhammad Kais and Md Nazrul Islam, 4th February 2014
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Independent assessor, PhD confirmation committee member for Prof. Xiao
Hong’s student Wu Yuling, 27 January 2014
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Interviewer, annual Undergraduate Admission Interviews.
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Academic Supervisor, HSS Professional Attachment Program (HPAP) (20092011)
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Academic Supervisor, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Programme
(HSSRP) 2006-2007 (Supervisees: Elson Ng and Joshua Yeo, Raffles Institution).
Service to External Organizations/Public Service
1) Presenter, Tenth Family Research Network Forum on “The Role of Working Women
in the Family,” Institute of Policy Studies, November 5, 2013
2) Participant, Institute of Policy Studies, NUS, IPS Closed-Door Discussion on
“Foreign-Local Integration in Singapore,” August 31, 2009
3) Presenter, S/pores closed door forum, September 28, 2008
S/pores: Singapore Studies (website: http://spores.wordpress.com/)
4) Columnist, Xueren Shijao (學人視角), Lianhe Zhaobao (a daily Chinese newspaper
in Singapore) (2007-2008).
5) Lecturer, Nanyang Technological University-Singapore Ministry of Education,
“China Studies in English Teachers Training” (CSETT) Program (2006-2007).
6) Lecturer, Nanyang Technological University-Singapore Ministry of Education,
“China Studies in Chinese Teachers Training” Program (2006-2007).
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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
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Member, Canadian Sociological Association (2008-present)
Member, American Sociological Association (2004-present)
Member, International Sociological Association (2004-present)
Member, Association for Asian Studies (2004-present)
JOURNALISM EMPLOYMENT
Staff Journalist, Commercial Times (a Subsidiary of the China Times), Taipei, Taiwan
(http://www.chinatimes.com) (2000)
Business Reporter, Taipei Times (English Daily Newspaper), Taipei, Taiwan
(http://www.taipeitimes.com) (1999-2000)
Editor, World Journal (Chinese Daily Newspaper), Vancouver, Canada
(http://www.worldjournal.com) (1997-1999)
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Bilingual: English and Chinese (Mandarin)
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