EDUCATION QUAL IFICATIONS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS · 2017-06-12 · 2016-present Assistant Dean (Research April 2017 onwards; undergraduate education 2016-2017), College of Humanities,

SUN, Curriculum Vitae, April 2017

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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 April 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.

A) 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 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 provides important insights

into the formation and usage of racial and ethnic human taxonomies in population-

based genomic science and medicine.

mailto:[email protected]


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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

Immigrant Couples in Canada.” Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology

and Sociology,4 Vol. 1 (1): 91-115.

1 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. 2 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 3 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). 4 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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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.

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


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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 3

rd,

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

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


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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.

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.


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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 11-

17, 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.

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.


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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.


Assistance in Confucian Asia.” Presented at the 102nd

annual meeting of the

American Sociological Association. August 11-14, New York City, NY.


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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

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).


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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; 2010-

2011).


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).


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

Citizens

1) Contemporary Sociology (Vol. 43, No. 1, pp.121-122)

2) Pacific Affairs (2013; Vol. 86, No. 3)


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3) New Asia Books (2013; http://www.newasiabooks.org/publication/population-policy-

and-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. 111-

114)

Invited Presentations

(Extracted from the full list of conference papers)

1) Sun, Shirley 2017. Commentary. “Technology and care in Asian contexts,” May 17-

18th

, National University of Singapore.

2) 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).

3) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2015, “Personalized Medicine and Asian DNA:

Pharmacogenomics and Market Forces,” April 22nd

, University of Lethbridge, Canada.

(Airfare and accommodation paid).

4) 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).

5) 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).

6) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2013. Reconsidering Race, Texas A&M University, May 3-4,

College Station, Texas, USA (Airfare and accommodation paid).

5 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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7) 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).

8) 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).

9) 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).

10) 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).

11) 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).

12) 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.

13) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. Panelist, “Education and the Global Fertility Transition.”

Presented at the Vienna Institute of Demography, December 1, Vienna, Austria.

14) Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li. 2011. “Population policies and the changing nature of

citizenship.” Presented at the National Chengchi University (NCCU), October 17,

Taipei, Taiwan.

15) 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).

16) 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).

17) 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).

18) 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).

19) 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.


Assistance.” International Sociological Association Meeting Integrative Session

(RC06 Family Research, RC11 Aging, and RC53 Childhood), July 15, Gothenburg,

Sweden.

21) 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 (CoHASS).

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 Yu-

Hsia 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

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

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)

B) 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)

1) HS101/HS1001 Person and Society

2) HS202 Doing Social Research

3) HS214/HS2014 The Changing Family

4) HS312/HS318/HS3018 Sociology of Gender and Sexuality/Sociology of

Gender

5) HS4015 Advanced Seminar: Sociology of Reproduction

6) HS4001/4901 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

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 Semester

Course

Code

LEC

or

SMR

Index

Tutorial

Mean

Index

AY13/14 1 HS1001 82.37

AY13/14 1 HS3018 89.91

AY13/14 2 HS4015 88.26

AY15/16 1 HS4015 90.66

1 HS2014 81.77

AY15/16 2 HS4001 88.54

2 HS4901 87.14

AY16/17 1 HS1001 86.83

1 HS4015 92.2

2 HS2014 86.6

HS2014 90.46

HS2014 85.71

HS2014 91.4

HS2014 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

Evaluation Area Mean Score

(Full score = 5) SFT equivalent Score

Overall Satisfaction of Programme 4.6

Course Evaluation: HS2014 Shirley Sun 4.6 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 students

Supervisor, Shiwei CHEN, Sociology, NTU

Supervisor, Daniel LEE, Sociology, NTU

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. students

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).

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).

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).

MA thesis external examiner, Ng Siow San. “Intergenerational voices: identity,

traditions and modernity.” Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia (2010-

2011).


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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)

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).

C) 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

Develop the STS Minor

Participate in the regular NTU Outreach and Publicity committee meetings

Review CoHASS course proposals

Serve as a panelist for various university-level 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 – 30 June 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" (2010-

2011).


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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, Science, Technology and Society (STS) Search committee, 2017

2) Member, Medical Sociology Search Committee, 2017

3) Member, Management Committee (MC), August 2015-July 2017

4) Acting Graduation Projects (GP) Coordinator, January 2016-July 2016

5) Member, Undergraduate Academic Matters committee (2013-present)

6) Member, Research Committee (2010-present)

7) Coordinator, Research Seminars (2009-2013)

8) Member, Faculty Recruitment and Management Committee (2005-2009)

9) Coordinator, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2005-2009)

10) Coordinator, Undergraduate Studies (2005-2008)

11) 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

12) 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

- Independent assessor, PhD confirmation committee member for Prof. Xiao

Hong’s student Wu Yuling, 27 January 2014

- Interviewer, annual Undergraduate Admission Interviews.

- Academic Supervisor, HSS Professional Attachment Program (HPAP) (2009-

2011)

- 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

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)

http://www.chinatimes.com/

http://www.taipeitimes.com/

http://www.worldjournal.com/

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