Helen Siu

Helen F. Siu is a Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. She has conducted decades of fieldwork in South China, exploring the cultural nexus of power, the nature of the socialist state, and the refashioning of identities. Lately, she has been exploring the rural-urban divide in China, cross-border dynamics in Hong Kong, inter-Asian connections, and China-Africa encounters. Siu is the founding Director of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, and she serves in numerous research committees in Asia, the United States, and Europe. She received a Ph.D. from Stanford University.