Hong Kong History Project Alumni
Dr. Catherine Chan, Assistant Professor, Lingnan University
Catherine Chan received her PhD from the University of Bristol in 2019, and is now a Research Assistant Professor at Lingnan University. She has written extensively on transimperial networks, and the Macanese in Hong Kong and throughout East Asia. Dr. Chan works on urban history, and her love for dogs recently inspired her to embark on a project on animal rights and dog racing.
Thesis: Empire Drifters: The Macanese in British Hong Kong, 1841-1941
Dr. Katon Lee, Lecturer, Hong Kong Baptist University
Dr Katon Lee is a Lecturer in History at the Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University. His current research focuses on the history of suit culture in British Hong Kong and the fashion-city network in twentieth-century Asia. Dr Lee received his PhD in History from the University of Bristol in 2020. His other research interests include the colonial histories of Hong Kong and port cities in East Asia, Sino-western cultural interaction, Chinese society from a transnational lens, gender and women's history, and oral history.
Thesis: Suit Up: Western Fashion, Chinese Society and Cosmopolitanism in Colonial Hong Kong, 1910-1980
Dr. Chris Wemyss
Chris Wemyss completed his PhD in 2021, and now works as a civil servant.
Thesis: Britons Abroad: Navigating Imperialism in Late Colonial Hong Kong, 1980-2000
Dr. Gemma O’Neill
Thesis: A New Way of Life: The Emergence of a Political Identity and Consciousness in Hong Kong, 1945-1979
Dr Helena Lopes, Lecturer in Modern Asian History, Cardiff University
Helena Lopes is a historian of modern China and global history. Her research focuses on the international, political, and social history of the Second World War and the early post-war period in South China, including imperialism(s) and anti-imperialism, as well as experiences of displacement and refugees. She is also interested in histories of Chinese migration more broadly, in histories of Portuguese communities in twentieth-century East Asia, and in Chinese/Sinophone cinemas.
Dr. Josepha C. Richard, Stacy Lloyd III fellow, Oak Spring Garden Foundation
Josepha Richard is an art historian and historian of 18-19th century China, with a specific interest in studying the art of Chinese gardens, early Sino-Western interactions and the urban, social and art history of the city of Guangzhou (Canton). Her most recent project combines history of science and art, by researching botanically accurate paintings of Chinese plants commissioned by British trader John Bradby Blake in late 18th century Canton and kept at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Virginia).