Prof. Amanda Cheong recognized by ASA section awards
She has received two awards and multiple honourable mentions for three of her articles from American Sociological Association.
Statelessness by design: Prof. Amanda Cheong examines Myanmar’s erasure of the Rohingya
Bureaucracies that “fail” to document every citizen may be deliberately creating statelessness for populations like the Rohingya.
Prof. Amanda Cheong examines the postcolonial history of statelessness among communities of Filipino descent
In a new article for Ethnic and Racial Studies, Prof. Cheong draws on household interviews and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the case of statelessness for Filipino communities in Sabah, Malaysia.
Prof. Amanda Cheong offers a sociology of statelessness in a new open-access article
The article explores how conflicts over who counts as a stateless person play out below the formal letter of the law in Malaysia.
Prof. Amanda Cheong speaks with Contexts about her award-winning article about driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants
Prof. Amanda Cheong spoke with the Contexts Blog in celebration of her recent award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Public Sociology and Sociological Practice.
UBC Sociology professors honoured with 2024 section awards from the American Sociological Association
Profs. Amanda Cheong and Seth Abrutyn both received awards from the Sociological Practice and Public Sociology and Theory sections respectively. Prof. Andrew Jorgenson also received an honourable mention from the Political Economy of the World-System Section.
Prof. Amanda Cheong named a Public Humanities Hub Faculty Fellow for 2024-25
The Public Humanities Hub Faculty Fellowships are awarded to scholars to support their development of Public Humanities research projects. Fellows receive a course-release and a research grant to work on an individual humanities-oriented research project.
PhD student Sophie Liu granted $30,000 award from UBC’s PhD CoLab program
UBC Sociology doctoral student Sophie Liu, with doctoral student Kaitlyn Cumming from the Allard School of Law, is spearheading a project that has recently been awarded funding through the PhD CoLab program.
Association of Asian Studies’ MSB Studies Group awards prize for best journal article to Prof. Amanda Cheong
Assistant Professor Amanda Cheong, who was recently awarded the Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Studies Group’s annual Craig A. Lockard Prize for her article “Theorizing Omission: State Strategies for Withholding Official Recognition of Personhood.”
UBC Sociology Asst. Prof. Amanda Cheong speaks at the Museum of Vancouver’s “Making Space” event
In May, UBC’s Public Humanities Hub partnered with the Museum of Vancouver and Heritage Vancouver Society to co-host the public event, “Making Space: Asian Heritage Month.”