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Roberto CASTILLO (Treasurer)
Roberto Castillo is an associate professor at the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He has been conducting media representation and ethnographic research among different communities in Southern China. He has been the Treasurer of the IACSS since 2019.

Jeremy DE CHAVEZ (Institutional Representative)

Yiu-fai CHOW
Yiu Fai Chow (PhD, University of Amsterdam) is a Professor at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University. Chow’s research fields include gender and sexuality, creative practices and cultural studies at large. Next to his academic work, Chow is also an award-winning writer in lyrics and prose, and involved in a variety of art and community projects.

Anneke COPPOOLSE (General Secretary)
Anneke Coppoolse is an Assistant Professor in the College of Fine Arts at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea. She works at the intersection of cultural studies and design. Her research centres on the materiality and visuality of urban life, with recent work exploring more-than-human entanglements involving weeds—plants often considered “out of place” in human-designed spaces.

Sharmani GABRIEL
Sharmani Patricia Gabriel works in postcolonial and decolonial studies, with research centred on cultural identity, diaspora, and transnationalism. Her interests extend to  the epistemological constructs emerging from Asia’s littoral sites. Currently, she serves as an Adjunct Professor at Sunway University, Malaysia, having previously been Professor and Head of the Department of English at Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.

Thiti JAMKAJORNKEIAT
Thiti Jamkajornkeiat is Assistant Professor of Global Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Victoria in Canada. He received his Ph.D. in South and Southeast Asian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory from UC Berkeley. He works at the intersection of Marxism, anticolonialism, and Southeast Asia, specifically Indonesia and Thailand. His essays and interviews have appeared in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, Spectre, Haymarket Books, Asia Art Tours, Verge, and upcoming in Critical Times. He was the co-organizer of the 2025 IACS Conference in southern Thailand.

June Hee KWON
June Hee Kwon is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at California State University, Sacramento. She researches Northeast Asian borderlands, Cold War developmentalism, diaspora, migration, and the politics of ecology. Her book Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers (Duke University Press, 2023) explores the lives of Korean Chinese migrants through the lenses of bodies, money, and time, and won the 2024 Francis L. Hsu Book Prize. She is currently writing a political ecology of Jeju Island’s citrus trees as Cold War infrastructure, tracing their role in reshaping agricultural landscapes and diasporic futures.

LUO Xiaoming
Luo Xiaoming is based in the Department of Cultural Studies and the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Shanghai University. She has served as Chair of the department since 2019 and Director of the Center since 2025. Her research focuses on urban culture and youth culture in China. Her recent book, Unlocking the Future: The Urban Imagination in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction (2023), explores these themes.

Fran MARTIN
Fran Martin’s research focusses on cultural studies approaches to media and public culture,sexuality/ gender studies, and transdisciplinary qualitative studies of youth mobilities in the transnational Sinosphere in the context of globalization. She is Professor of Cultural Studies and co-convenor of the Asian Cultural Research Hub at The University of Melbourne.

Madhuja MUKHERJEE (Vice Chair)
Madhuja Mukherjee is Professor of Film Studies at Jadavpur University, India. Her research involves: South Asian film and media industrial histories, sound in cinema, gender, labour, digital practice, urban cultures. She focuses on archives, materiality, transmediality and trans-regionality of film and media. Her academic research evolved into media-installations, comics, and films. Among others, Mukherjee published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, South Asian Popular Culture, South Asian History and Culture, Bioscope journals, and her edited volumes, including Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India, 2021, highlight traffic of media and labour across Asia.

Kristine Marie REYNALDO
Kristine Marie Reynaldo serves as an assistant professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman. Her research interests include post/colonial modernity and decolonial studies, Southeast Asian Anglophone literature, and legacies of US imperialism and the Cold War.

Nishant SHAH (Institutional Representative)
Nishant Shah is Assoc. Professor of Global Media & Culture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he leads the Digital Narratives Studio and directs the MA in Global Communication. He is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. His work spans digital technologies, feminist and queer theory, and global governance, with a focus on the Global South. He leads the Generative AI Network (:GAIN) (with Dakila & IDRC) and the Possible AIs Speculative Technology Institute (with CREA), and serves as a knowledge partner to the Feminist Internet Research Network (with APC) and the Take a Pause Fund (with Oxfam-Novib).

Denise Tse-Shang TANG
Dr. Denise Tse-Shang Tang is an interdisciplinary ethnographer specializing in gender and sexualities with specific focus on lesbian and same-sex desires, transgender and masculinities in an inter-Asian context. Tang is currently Associate Professor and Head of Department in Cultural Studies at Lingnan University. Tang is Co-Producer of the 2024 award-winning film All Shall Be Well 從今以後. Prior to entering academia, Tang was California state-certified HIV testing counsellor for communities including Asian & Pacific Islander LGBTQ, survivors of sexual violence, First Nations women and incarcerated Asian youth. 

Andy Chih-ming WANG (Chair)
Chih-ming Wang is research fellow at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. He also holds a joint appointment at the Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies at National Yangming Chiao-Tung University. He is the author of Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America (2013) and Rearticulation: Trajectories of Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan (2021; in Chinese). His research now focuses on the geopolitics of globalization in Asia and the history of US imperialism in Taiwan.