Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Shan HUANG
Rm 217, Leung Kau Kui Building, CUHK
Shan HUANG received his PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University in 2024. His research explores the intersections of urban and environmental politics, creative social action, and affect studies, with a primary focus on Hong Kong and mainland China. At CUHK, he is developing a book project on Hong Kong’s post-Handover political culture, examined through space-making politics and experimental social projects in urban peripheries. He is the co-author of Reappearing Mui Wo (in Chinese, Typesetter, 2024), a public-facing book on the socio-agricultural history of a seaside town on Lantau Island, written in collaboration with community partners amid a land reclamation controversy. As part of the Public Humanities initiative, he is especially interested in enabling interfaces between scholarship and social life through new methodologies, ethics, and aesthetics.
Political anthropology, urban-environmental studies, affect theory, public humanities, Hong Kong & Mainland China
2024 Reappearing Mui Wo: The Future for Rural Revitalization through the History of An Agricultural Community on Hong Kong. Typesetter, Hong Kong
*Co-authored book in Chinese (再現梅窩)
2023 Beyond the Breaking Point: Locations of Hope through the Lens of Land Activism in Hong Kong. Critical Asia Archives.
Gabriel Antonio SOLIS is a historian of capitalism, labor and borders, focusing on the history of the global factory in East Asia and the U.S.-Mexico Border. Gabriel received his PhD in History at Columbia University, where he wrote his dissertation on the entangled history of the first export-processing zones in Taiwan and Mexico. He is originally from the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez border and frequently writes about border history, culture and politics for outlets such as Wired, Spectre, and The Drift.
Labor History; Border Studies; History of Capitalism; Social Movements; Chicanx Studies; Public History.
-History of export-manufacturing in Taiwan, the US-MX Border and the Pearl River Delta.
-Zapatismo and Marxism in the US-MX Border
-Chemical Contamination, Race and Labor in the Global Factory
Gabriel A. Solis, “Borderlands, Betrayed: How Hispanic Democrats Abandoned Progressivism in South Texas,” The Drift, Issue 14, November 4, 2024, https://www.thedriftmag.com/borderlands-betrayed/
Gabriel A. Solis, “Big and Small Contradictions on the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Reflection on Chicana/o and Mexican Maoism,” positions: episteme, Issue 10, Maoism on the Move, January 2024, https://positionspolitics.org/episteme-10/
Nina Ebner and Gabriel A. Solis, “Near-Shoring, Border ‘Security,’ and the Transformation of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands into a Militarized Industrial Zone,” NACLA Report on the Americas, Special Issue on Militarism, Fall 2023.
Gabriel A. Solis et al. “Against ‘Normalcy’: A Collective Testimony of Student Workers Organizing During the Pandemic.” International Labor and Working-Class History, (FirstView) 2023, 1–15.
Gabriel A. Solis, “Farah’s 50 Years Later: A History of Class Struggle in the Borderlands,” Spectre, June 16, 2022, https://spectrejournal.com/farahs-50-years-later/