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Curriculum Vitae (May 2015)

Caroline Plüss (DPhil, Oxon)

Current position

Assistant Professor, Division of Sociology, Email: pluss@ntu.edu.sg School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tel: (65) 6316 8959

Nanyang Technological University,

Singapore 639798.

Research specialization

Racial, ethnic, and minority identity and culture: Minorities, migrants, identity politics, Chinese

migrants, South Asian migrants, migrant experiences in the West and in Asia, minority

religion, minority education, citizenship, migrant adaptation and non-adaptation, migrant

integration and non-integration, and social and psychological strain.

Transnationalism and Globalization: Theories of globalization and transnationalism, transnational

communities, diasporas, transnational belonging and/or non-belonging, intersectionality

analysis, and global cities.

Cultural and social change: The West and Asia, cultural hybridity, cosmopolitanism, essentialism,

the family, gender and generation roles, structure - agency theory, symbolic interactionism,

exchange theory, changing socialities (sociabilities), and the de-territorialization of culture.

Qualitative Sociology: Qualitative research design, in-depth interviews, reflexive ethnography,

biographical research, multi-sited research, and qualitative data-analysis.

Teaching specialization

Race and ethnicity: Racial and ethnic relations, dominant and subordinate relations, racial and

ethnic identity transformation, racialization and ethnicization, stereotypes, minority

adaptation and non-adaptation, minority assimilation and non-assimilation,

transnationalism, migrants, diasporas, transnational communities, ethnic economies,

„Whiteness‟ and „Blackness‟, culture of poverty, culture of deviance, mental health, gender

and generational ethnicity, equality and equity, educational outcomes, ethnic youth cultures,

and the media.

Identity and society: Minority identity, migrant identity, mixed-race identity, identity

performances, social constructivism, symbolic interactionism, socialization, stereotypes,

youth cultures, women, gender and generation roles, transnational identifications,

marginalization and alienation, labelling, passing, cultural consumption, the media, and

fashion and taste.

Cultural and social change: Cultural, social, economic, and/or political change in Asia and in the

West, globalization, tradition, modernity, and postmodernity, multiculturalism, capitalism,

neoliberalism, consumer culture, hybridity, cosmopolitanism, essentialism, global cities,

technology, global society, and civil society.

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Contemporary sociological theory: Social constructivism, phenomenology, structure - agency

theories, symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, critical sociological theory,

intersectionality analysis, power and governmentality, modernity and postmodernity, race

and ethnicity, globalization, and cosmopolitanism.

Qualitative research methods: Research design, in-depth interviewing, reflexive ethnography,

biographical research, multi-sited research, qualitative data analysis, and computer assisted

qualitative data analysis (NVivo).

Education

Nov. 1995 D. Phil. (Ph. D.) in Sociology.

The University of Oxford, U.K. Dissertation: ‟A Sociological Analysis of

the Modern Quaker Movement‟

Oct. 1989 B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology (licence en sociologie et

anthropologie), Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Employment history

Assistant Professor, Division of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences,

Nanyang Technological University, January 2006 to present.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,

January 2000 to January 2006.

Part-time Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University, September

2001 to December 2001.

Part-time Lecturer, Department of Education, The University of Hong Kong, September

1999 to December 2000.

Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong, October 1996

to October 2001.

Awards, grants, and honors

2012 Koh Boon Hwee Scholars award for my student Ms. Tricia Anna Lim

Peiyu who nominated me as her most inspiring teacher.

2009 S$30,020 from the Centre For Liberal Arts and Social Studies, Nanyang

Technological University, Singapore, to organize international workshop

on „Transnational Migrant Identity in Asia: Intersecting Cultural, Social,

and Economic Dimensions‟.

2009 S$4,985 Academic Research Fund, Nanyang Technological University,

Singapore, „Ideals of the Family among Chinese-Singaporean

Transmigrants in New York City‟ (PI).

2008 Researcher of the Year, Division of Sociology, Nanyang Technological

University.

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2007 S$259,100 Academic Research Fund Tier 1, Nanyang Technological

University, Singapore, „Connecting Singapore: Chinese Singaporean

Transnational Sojourners‟(PI).

2007 ROAR academic research output recognition, Nanyang Technological

University, Singapore.

2006 S$4,900 Academic Research Fund, Nanyang Technological University,

Singapore, „Connecting Singapore: Migration and transnational capital

conversions‟ (PI).

2004 HK$369,000 The University Grants Committee, Hong Kong „Familiars or

Strangers? Return Migration in Hong Kong‟ (with and in the name of

Chan Kwok Bun); Conference grant, Asia Research Institute, National

University of Singapore „Moving Between Global and Local Spaces:

Situational Constructions of Sephardic Identities‟.

2000 Conference grant, Centre of Advanced Studies, National University of

Singapore „Transnationalism Hong Kong Style: The Identities of Jews and

Muslims‟.

1999 HK$464,000 Lord Wilson Heritage Trust, Hong Kong for research on

migrants from India in Hong Kong; Conference grant, School of

Management, University of Technology, Sydney „Hong Kong Muslims:

Unity and Diversity‟; Continuing Development Grant, The University of

Hong Kong „Secular vs. Sacred: Hong Kong Muslim Identities‟;

HK$23,555 Hang Seng Golden Jubilee Education Fund „Hong Kong

Muslim Identities‟.

1998 HK$20,000 The Incorporated Trustees of the Jewish Community of Hong

Kong for field work in Israel.

1997 HK$482,894 The Incorporated Trustees of the Jewish Community of

Hong Kong „The Social History of the Jewish Community in Hong Kong‟;

HK$25,000 The Freemasons‟ Fund for East Asian Studies, Hong Kong

„Hong Kong Muslim Identities: Unity and Diversity‟; HK$113,378

Committee for Research and Conference Grants, The University of Hong

Kong „Hong Kong Muslim Identities: Unity and Diversity‟ (with Jesucita

Sodusta); HK$1,550 Hang Seng Jubilee Education Fund „The Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in Hong Kong‟.

1992 Approx. HK$164,160 Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research, Young

Researchers‟ Grant ‟A Sociological Analysis of the Modern Quaker

Movement‟.

1989 Lincoln College, University of Oxford, U.K, Berrow Scholarship (three

years).

Publications

Books, special set of articles, and thesis

4. Plüss, Caroline (2013) Editor (in addition to the journals‟ usual review process) „Migrant

Adaptation‟, Special Set of Articles, International Sociology, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 4-83.

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3. Plüss, Caroline and Chan, Kwok Bun (eds) (2012) Living Intersections: Transnational

Migrant Identifications in Asia, Dordrecht, NL: Springer, 279 pages.

Reviewed in Asian Journal of Social Science (2014) vol. 42: 177-79.

2. Plüss, Caroline (1999) The Social History of the Jews of Hong Kong: A Resource Guide,

Hong Kong: The Jewish Historical Society of Hong Kong, 35 pages.

1. Plüss, Caroline (1995) A Sociological Analysis of the Modern Quaker Movement,

unpublished D. Phil. Thesis, Oxford: Bodleian Library.

Single-authored research monographs in progress

1. Plüss, Caroline (n.d.) Chinese-Singaporean Migrants’ Transnational Spaces: A Multi-

sited Study of Processes of Globalization.

I received a book-publishing contract from Springer.

2. Plüss, Caroline (n.d.) The Social History of Jews in Hong Kong.

Book manuscript partly completed, Hebrew resources missing.

Articles in international journals

14. Plüss, Caroline (2013a) „Chinese migrants in New York: Explaining inequalities with

transnational positions and capital conversions in transnational spaces‟, International

Sociology, vol. 28, no. 1: 12-27.

13. Plüss, Caroline (2013b) „Migrants‟ social positioning and inequalities: The intersections

of capital, locations and aspirations‟, International Sociology, vol. 28, no. 1: 4-11.

12. Chan, Kwok Bun and Plüss, Caroline (2013c) „Modeling migrant adaptation: Coping

with social strain, assimilation and non-integration‟, International Sociology, vol. 28, no. 1:

47-64.

11. Plüss, Caroline (2011) „Baghdadi Jews in Hong Kong: Converting cultural, social and

economic capital among three transregional networks‟, Global Networks: A Journal of

Transnational Affairs‟, vol. 11, no. 1: 82-96.

10. Plüss, Caroline (2007) „Analyzing non-doctrinal socialization: Re-assessing the role of

cognition to account for social cohesion in the Religious Society of Friends‟, The British

Journal of Sociology, vol. 58, no. 2: 253-75.

9. Plüss, Caroline (2006) ‘Becoming different while becoming the same: Re-territorializing

Islamic identities with multi-ethnic practices in Hong Kong‟, Ethnic and Racial Studies,

vol. 29, no. 4: 656-75.

8. Plüss, Caroline (2005) „Constructing globalised ethnicity: Migrants from India in Hong

Kong‟, International Sociology, vol. 20, no. 2: 203-26.

7. Plüss, Caroline (2002) „Assimilation or asserting tradition? Strategic constructions of

Sephardic identities‟, Jewish Culture and History, vol.5, no.2: 48-69.

6. Plüss, Caroline (2000a) „Hong Kong‟s Muslim organisations: Creating and expressing

collective identities‟, China Perspectives, no. 29: 19-23.

5. Reprinted in French: Plüss, Caroline (2000b) „Les associations Musulmanes de

Hong Kong: Creation et expression d‟une identité collective‟, Perspectives

Chinoises, no. 58: 21-25.

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4. Plüss, Caroline (2000c) „Transnational identities: The Hong Kong Indians‟, The

International Scope Review, vol. 2, no. 4: 1-19.

3. Plüss, Caroline (1999) „Chinese participation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

Saints (Mormons) in Hong Kong‟, Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 14, no. 1: 63-76.

2. Plüss, Caroline (1998a) „Symposium on current post-graduate research on Hong Kong

Society: Report‟, The Journal of Resources for Hong Kong Studies, no. 1: 153-56.

1. Plüss, Caroline (1998b) „Contemporary British Quakerism: The relevance of structure

and reference to the supernatural for its validity‟, Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol.

13, no. 2: 231- 43.

International journal articles in progress

Plüss, Caroline (n.d.a.) „”Transnational reflexivity”: Four ideal types of Chinese-

Singaporean Transnational Migrants‟.

Plüss, Caroline (n.d.b.) „The changing “ideals of the family” of Chinese-Singaporean

migrants in New York‟.

Plüss, Caroline, Soon, Ling Wei Nathaniel, Tan, Shi Ying, and Ling, Joy (n.d.c.) „Social

capital and migrant integration in Singapore: The views of Singaporeans, and of workers

and professionals from the PRC‟.

Article in local journal

Plüss, Caroline (1999b) „Muslims in Hong Kong‟, The Hong Kong Anthropologist, Hong

Kong: The Hong Kong Anthropological Society, no. 12: 2-7.

Book chapters 14. Ee, Hui Li Amanda, Plüss, Caroline and Chan, Kwok Bun (2013) „To be or not to be:

Chinese-Singaporean women deliberating on voluntary childlessness‟, in Chan, Kwok Bun

(ed.) International Handbook of Chinese Families, New York: Springer, pp. 231-48.

This research led to an interview published in The Straits Times: Prime, 15 August 2012,

Singapore.

13. Plüss, Caroline (2012a) „Living in the intersections of cultures, societies, emotions,

politics and economies: Deterritorializing culture‟, in Plüss, Caroline and Chan, Kwok Bun

(eds) Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia, Dordrecht, NL:

Springer, pp. 259-71.

12. Plüss, Caroline (2012b) „Chinese-Singaporean repeat migrant women in Singapore:

Inequalities and performing transnational positionalities‟, in Plüss, Caroline and Chan,

Kwok Bun (eds) Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia,

Dordrecht, NL: Springer, pp. 125-47.

11. Plüss, Caroline and Chan, Kwok Bun (2012c) „Theorizing and proving

intersectionality‟, in Plüss, Caroline and Chan, Kwok Bun (eds) Living Intersections:

Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia, Dordrecht, NL: Springer, pp. 1-47.

10. Plüss, Caroline (2009a) „Trans-national biographies and Trans-national habiti: The case

of Chinese Singaporeans in Hong Kong‟, in Heng, Derek and Aljuned, Syed Muhd

Khairudin (eds) Reframing Singapore: Memory, Identity and Trans-Regionalism (Selected

Papers from the 5th

International Convention of Asian Scholars), Amsterdam: Amsterdam

University and ICAS Press, pp. 195-210 (reworked version of 9).

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9. Plüss, Caroline (2009b) „Chinese Singaporeans in Hong Kong: Transnational habiti and

cultural capital‟, in Suryadinata, Leo and Lee, Guan Kin (eds) Chinese Migrants: Their

Adaptation and Development, Singapore: CCLC (NTU) and Chinese Heritage Centre, pp.

133-51.

8. Plüss, Caroline (2009c) „Migration and the globalization of religion‟, in Clarke, Peter

(ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, Oxford: Oxford University Press,

pp. 491-506.

7. Plüss, Caroline (2008a) „Hong Kong‟, in Schaefer, Richard (ed.) Encyclopedia of Race,

Ethnicity, and Society, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 647-51.

6. Kwok, Kian Woon and Plüss, Caroline (2008b) „Singapore‟, in Schaefer, Richard (ed.)

Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 1228-31.

5. Plüss, Caroline (2006) „Indians in Hong Kong‟, in Lal, Brij, Reeves, Peter and Rai,

Rajesh (eds) The Encyclopedia of the Indians Overseas, Singapore: Editions Didier Millet,

pp. 206-9.

4. Plüss, Caroline (2005a) „Migrants from India and their relations with British and Chinese

residents‟, in Chu, Cindy Yik Yi (ed.) Foreign Communities in Hong Kong: From the Late

Nineteenth Century to the 1960s, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 225-48.

3. Plüss, Caroline (2005b) „Globalizing ethnicity with multi-local identifications: The

Parsee, Indian, Muslim and Sephardic trade diasporas in Hong Kong‟, in McCabe,

Baghdiantz, Harlaftis, Gelina and Minoglou, Ionna Peplasis (eds) Diaspora Entrepreneurial

Networks: Four Centuries of History, Oxford: Berg Publisher, pp. 245-68.

2. Plüss, Caroline (2003) „Sephardic Jews in Hong Kong: Constructing communal

identities‟, in Betta, Chiara and Dien, Albert E. (eds) Sino-Judaica: Occasional Papers of

the Sino-Judaic Institute, Melno Park, CA: The Sino-Judaic Institute, vol. 4: 57-79.

1. Reprinted in Chinese: Plüss, Caroline 2002 „Hong Kong‟s Muslim

organisations: Creating and expressing collective identities‟, in Chan, Shun Hing

(ed.) A Carnival of Gods: Studies of Religions in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Oxford

University Press, pp. 452-61.

Book review in international journal

1. Plüss, Caroline (2009) ‘Ronald Lardinois and Meenakshi Thapan: Reading Pierre

Bourdieu in a dual context: Essays from India and France‟, Asian Journal of Social

Sciences, 37: 699-705.

Other publications (selection) Plüss, Caroline (2013) „Combining the Best of all Worlds? Explaining Multi-place Social

Integration of Chinese Singaporeans in New York‟, International Convention of Asia Scholars

(ICAS) 8: The East-West Crossroads. Macao, 24-27 June.

Plüss, Caroline (2013) „Cosmopolitan and Essentialized Socialities: Analyzing Highly Skilled

Chinese-Singaporean Transnational Migrants‟ Access to Resources and Social Integration in

Multi-context and Pluri-local Transnational Spaces‟, 2013 RCIS Conference: Immigration

and Settlement: Precarious Futures‟. Conference Program: Toronto: Ryerson University, pp.

40-41.

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Plüss, Caroline (2012a) „The Transnational Positions of Male Chinese-Singaporean Migrants

and their Social Integration in Transnational Spaces‟, Programme of the 2nd ISA Forum of

Sociology: Social Justice and Democratization, International Sociological Association,

Buenos Aires, 1-4 August, p. 228.

Plüss, Caroline (2012b) „Transnational Positions and (In-) equalities‟, Abstracts. Highly

Skilled Migration into the 21st Century: International Conference. Middlesex University,

London, 24-25 March, n.p.

Plüss, Caroline (2011) „Chinese-Singaporean Repeat Migrants: Performing Transnational

Positionalities and Social Inequalities‟, Abstracts of the 2011 Annual Meeting, Ann Arbour:

American Association for Asian Studies, 31 March-3 April, p. 113.

Plüss, Caroline (2010a) „Chinese-Singaporeans in New York City: Transnational

Positionalities‟, XVII World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association:

Book of Abstracts, Goteborg, Sweden, 11-17 July, p. 376.

Plüss, Caroline (2010b) „Chinese-Singaporeans in New York City: Transnational

Positionalities‟, 7th

Conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas,

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, May 7-9, p. 105

Plüss, Caroline (2009) „Chinese-Singaporean Transmigrants: Inequalities and Performing

Transnational Positionalities‟, International Workshop on Transnational Migrant Identity:

Intersecting Cultural, Social and Economic Dimensions, Nanyang Technological University,

Singapore, December 17-18, pp. 157-77.

Plüss, Caroline (2008) „Chinese-Singaporean Transnational Migrants: Intersecting Cultural.

Social and Economic Dimensions in Identity Negotiations‟, Abstracts of the conference

Encounters and Intersections: Religion, Diaspora and Ethnicities, ESRC/AHRC, St

Catherine‟s Collect, Oxford, 9-11 July, p. 42.

Plüss, Caroline (2007a) „Chinese Singaporean Transnational Migrants: Constructing a

Transnational Habitus‟, Abstract Reader: International Conference on Ethnicity, Belonging,

Biography and Ethnography, Center of Methods in Social Sciences, Georg-August

University, Goettingen, Germany, p. 19.

Plüss, Caroline (2007b) „Connecting Singapore: Migration and Transnational Capital

Conversion‟, proceedings of the Mobile City Singapore workshop, Singapore: Asia Research

Institute, National University of Singapore, pp. 1-12.

Plüss, Caroline (2006a) „Migration and Religious Globalization‟, Abstracts ISA2006

Congress: The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalising World, p. 201.

Plüss, Caroline (2006b) „Intersecting Cultural and Economic Globalization: Network Position

Specific Constructions of Migrant Ethnicity‟, Abstracts ISA2006 Congress: The Quality of

Social Existence in a Globalising World, p. 201.

Plüss, Caroline (2004) „Moving between Global and Local Spaces: Situational Constructions

of Sephardic Identities‟, abstracts of the Conference on Transnational Religions: Intersections

of ‘Global’ and ‘Local’, Singapore: Asia Research Institute, National University of

Singapore, n.p.

Plüss, Caroline (2002) „Migrants from India in Hong Kong: Relations with British and

Chinese Residents‟, abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Sociological

Association, Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology, p. 65.

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Plüss, Caroline (2001a) „Hong Kong Sephardic Jews: Shaping Transnational Identities‟,

Abstracts of the 2001 Annual Meeting, Ann Arbour: American Association for Asian Studies,

p. 70.

Plüss, Caroline (2001b) „Indians, Jews and Muslims in Hong Kong: Relations with Chinese

and British Host Societies‟, abstracts of the International Conference ‘Reinterpreting

Twentieth Century China: New Perspectives’, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Baptist University, p.

22.

Plüss, Caroline (2000a) „Research Presentation: Hong Kong Muslim Identities‟, ISIM

Newsletter, Leiden: International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, no. 5:

40.

Plüss, Caroline (2000b) „Hong Kong Muslim Identities: Assimilation Versus Idiosyncrasy‟,

Abstracts of the 2000 Annual Meeting, Ann Arbour: American Association for Asian Studies,

p. 329.

Plüss, Caroline (2000c) „The Hong Kong Communities Project‟, Newsletter, Hong Kong:

Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong, nos. 16 and 17: 8-9.

Plüss, Caroline (2000d) „Hong Kong Indian: Transnational Identities‟, abstracts of the Annual

Meeting of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association, Nishinomiya: Kwansei Gakuin

University, p. 53.

Plüss, Caroline (2000e) „The Kadoorie Family‟s Legacy of Giving‟, The University of Hong

Kong Bulletin, Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong, no. 6, vol. 1: 2.

Plüss, Caroline (1999a) „Hong Kong Jewry: A Social History‟, Newsletter, Hong Kong:

Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong, no. 14: 10.

Plüss, Caroline (1999b) „The Social History of the Jews of Hong Kong: A Resource Guide‟,

Newsletter, Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong, no. 14: 8.

Plüss, Caroline (1999c) „Secular vs. Sacred: Hong Kong Muslim Identities‟, abstracts of the

Re-imagining Multiculturalism Conference, Melbourne: Monash University, p. 36.

Plüss, Caroline (1999d) „Hong Kong Muslim Identities: Administration of the Sacred‟,

abstracts of the International Conference on Tradition and Change: Identity, Gender and

Culture in South China, Hong Kong: Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University

of Hong Kong, p. 11.

Plüss, Caroline (1999e) „The Social History of the Jewish Community in Hong Kong Project‟,

Newsletter, Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong, no. 12: 8.

Plüss, Caroline (1998a) „The Social History of the Jewish Community of Hong Kong‟,

What’s On What’s New, Hong Kong: Jewish Community Centre of Hong Kong, pp. 8-9.

Plüss, Caroline (1998b) „Hong Kong Jewry‟, Points East, Melno Park, CA: The Sino-Judaic

Institute, no. 13, vol. 1: 4.

Plüss, Caroline (1997) ‟The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in Hong

Kong‟ abstracts of the International Conference on Hong Kong and Modern China, Hong

Kong: The University of Hong Kong, n.p.

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International conference presentations

2016 (forthcoming) Plüss, Caroline „Making Global Society: Chinese Singaporean

Transnational Migrants‟, 3rd

ISA Forum of Sociology, Vienna, July 10-14

July.

2015 (forthcoming) Plüss, Caroline „Analyzing Multi-place and Multi-context-of-interaction

transnational Spaces: A New Analytical Framework‟, Global Studies

Association Annual Conference, London 2-4 July. Conference

participation cancelled.

2014 35. Plüss, Caroline „Cosmopolitan and Essentialized Socialites in

Transnational Spaces‟, XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology,

Yokohama, 13-19 July.

2013 34. Plüss, Caroline „Singaporeans vs. Foreign Workers and

Professionals: Views on Singapore‟s Migration Policies (1990-2013)‟

(with Soon Ling Wei Nathaniel, Tan Shi Ying, and Joy Ling) WZB-NTU-NUS workshop „Immigration Policies, Immigrant Rights and Social

Inclusion – Western Experiences and Asian Challenges, Nanyang

Technological University, 11-12 December.

2013 33. Plüss, Caroline „Combining the Best of all Worlds: Explaining Multi-

place Social Integration of Chinese Singaporean in New York‟,

International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 8: The East-West

Crossroads. Macao, 24-27 June.

2013 32. Plüss, Caroline „Cosmopolitan and Essentialized Socialities:

Analyzing Highly Skilled Chinese-Singaporean Transnational Migrants‟

Access to Resources and Social Integration in Multi-context and Pluri-

local Transnational Spaces‟, Immigration and Settlement: Precarious

Futures: International Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, 15-17

May.

2012 31. Plüss, Caroline „The Transnational Positions of Male Chinese-

Singaporean Migrants and their Social Integration in Transnational

Spaces‟, Second ISA Forum of Sociology, Buenos Aires, 1-4 August.

2012 30. Plüss, Caroline „Transnational Positions and (In)equalities‟, Highly-

Skilled Migration Into the 21st Century, Economic and Social Research

Council and Middlesex University, London, 24-25 May.

2011 29. Plüss, Caroline „Chinese-Singaporean Repeat Migrants: Performing

Transnational Positionalities and Social Inequalities‟, Annual Joint

Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (ASS) & International

Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Honolulu, Hawaii, March 31-April

3.

2010 28. Plüss, Caroline „Chinese-Singaporeans in New York City: Performing

Transnational Positionalities‟, ISA World Congress of Sociology,

Gothenburg, July 11-17.

2010 27. Plüss, Caroline „Chinese-Singaporeans in New York City:

Transnational Positionalities‟, 7th

Conference of the International Society

for the Study of Chinese Overseas, Nanyang Technological University,

Singapore, May 7-9.

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2009 26. Plüss, Caroline „Chinese-Singaporean Transmigrants: Inequalities and

Performing Transnational Positionalities‟, International Workshop on

Transnational Migrant Identity: Intersecting Cultural, Social and

Economic Dimensions, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,

December 17-18.

2008 25. Plüss, Caroline „Chinese Singaporean Transnational Migrants:

Intersecting Cultural, Social and Economic Dimensions in Identity

Negotiations‟, at International Conference on Encounters and

Intersections: Religion, Diaspora and Ethnicities‟ the University of

Oxford, July 9-11.

2007 24. Plüss, Caroline „Chinese Singaporean Transnational Migrants:

Constructing a Transnational Habitus‟, at International Conference on

Ethnicity, Belonging, Biography and Ethnography, Georg-August

University, Goettingen, Germany, December 7-9.

2007 23. „Chinese-Singaporean Migrants: Converting Cultural, Social and

Economic Capital in Transnational Contexts‟, at Chinese Migration in

Comparative Perspectives: Adaptation and Development International

Conference, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture (NTU) and Chinese

Heritage Centre, Singapore, October 26-27.

2007 22. „Connecting Singapore: Chinese Singaporean transnational migrants

and capital conversions‟, at The Fifth International Convention of Asia

Scholars, Kuala Lumpur, August 2-5.

2007 21. „Chinese Singaporean Migrants: Transnational capital conversions‟, at

the 4th International Conference of Population Geographies, The Chinese

University of Hong Kong, Kong Kong, July 10-13.

2007 20. „Connecting Singapore: Migration and transnational capital

conversions‟, at the Mobile City Singapore Workshop, Asia Research

Institute, National University of Singapore, 1-3 March.

2006 19. „Migration and Religious Globalization‟, at the XVI World Congress

of the International Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa, July

23-29.

2006 18. „Intersecting Cultural and Economic Globalization: Network Position

Specific Constructions of Migrant Ethnicity‟, at the XVI World Congress

of the International Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa, July

23-29.

2004 „Globalizing Ethnicity: Re-territorializing Islamic Identities with Multi-

Ethnic Practices‟, paper accepted by the Annual Meeting of the American

Sociological Association, San Francisco, August. Conference

participation cancelled.

2004 17. „Moving Between Global and Local Spaces: Situational Constructions

of Sephardic Identities‟, at the International Conference on Transnational

Religions: Intersections of the „Global‟ and „Local‟, Asia Research

Institute, National University of Singapore, July 19-20.

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2003 „Transregionalism vs. Assimilation: Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong‟,

paper accepted by ICAS, Singapore, August. Conference participation

cancelled.

2003 „Transregionalism vs. Assimilation: Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong‟,

paper accepted by the 36th

World Congress of the International Institute

of Sociology, Beijing, July. Conference cancelled because of SARS.

2002 „Patterns of Integration: the Indian, Jewish and Muslim Trade Diasporas

in Hong Kong‟, paper accepted by the Thirteenth International Economic

History Congress, Buenos Aires, September. Conference participation

cancelled.

2002 16. „Migrants from India in Hong Kong: Relations with Chinese and

British Host Societies‟, at the XV World Congress of the International

Sociological Association, Brisbane, July 7-13.

2002 15. „Migrants from India in Hong Kong: Relations with Chinese and

British Host Societies‟, at the Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific

Sociological Association, Brisbane, July 4-7.

2001 14. „Migrants from India in Hong Kong: Relations with Chinese and

British Host Societies‟, at the 3rd

Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong

Sociological Association, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,

December.

2001 13. „Migrants from India in Hong Kong: Relations with Chinese and

British Host Societies‟, at the Conference on Social Exclusion and

Marginality in Chinese Societies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

November.

2001 12. „Patterns of Integration: The Indian, Jewish and Muslim Trade

Diasporas in Hong Kong‟, paper read out at the pre-conference of the

Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks Panel for the Thirteenth International

Economic History Congress, Corfu, September.

2001 11. „Indians, Jews and Muslims in Hong Kong: Relations with Chinese and

British Host Societies‟, at the Shaping the Twentieth Century

China:Political, Socio-Economic and Cultural Dimensions conference,

Hong Hong Baptist University, June 7-9.

2001 10. „Hong Kong Sephardic Jews: Shaping Transnational Identities‟, at the

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Asian Studies, Chicago,

March 22-25.

2000 9. „Transnational Identities and Citizenship: Migrants from India in Hong

Kong‟, at the 5th

International Metropolis conference, Vancouver,

November 13-17.

2000 8. „Hong Kong Indians: Transnational Identities‟, at the Second

International Conference on Hong Kong Culture, Local and Global:

Identity and Difference, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, October.

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2000 7. „Hong Kong Indians: Transnational Identities‟, at the Annual Meeting

of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association: Transition in Asia Pacific

Societies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, September

14-16.

2000 6. „Transnationalism Hong Kong Style: The Identities of Muslims and

Jews‟, at The International Conference on Transnational Communities in

the Asia-Pacific Region, Centre for Advanced Studies,

NationalUniversity of Singapore, August 7-8.

2000 5. „Hong Kong Muslims: Assimilation Versus Idiosyncrasy‟, at the

Annual Meeting of the American Association for Asian Studies, San

Diego, March.

1999 4. „Hong Kong Muslims: Unity and Diversity‟, at Asia‟s Third Sector:

Exploring the Diversity conference, Bangkok, November.

1999 3. „Secular vs. Sacred: Hong Kong Muslim Identities‟, at the Re-

Imagining Multiculturalism conference, Monash University, Melbourne,

October 1-3.

1999 2. „Hong Kong Muslim Identities: Administration of the Sacred‟, at the

International Conference on Tradition and Change, The Chinese

University of Hong Kong, June 4.

1997 1. „The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hong Kong‟, at the

International Conference on Hong Kong and Modern China, The

University of Hong Kong, December 3-5.

Other presentations and research-related service

2014 Commenting on issues regarding the presence of Singaporeans overseas

for the Singaporean newspaper Today.

2012 Meeting with Ms. Chika Kow, Senior Manager, International Manpower

Department of the Ministry of Manpower, Singapore, to give advice

stemming from my research of Chinese-Singaporeans who have lived in

several societies.

2012 Interview with The Straits Times (with my former student Amanda Ee

Hui Li) about our book chapter (with Chan Kwok Bun) on voluntary

childlessness in Singapore, published in the Singaporean Newspaper as

as: Tan, Theresa „Just the two of us‟, The Straits Times: Prime, 15 April,

p.12. (In Annex 1).

2008 „Chinese Singaporean Transnational Migrants‟, research presentation for

delegation from SUNY Binghamton University, Nanyang Technological

University.

2007 „Identity, Transnationalism and Migration: Situating Ethnicity as Cultural

Capital‟, seminar at the Department of Sociology, National University of

Singapore, 7 November.

2001 „Migrants from India in Hong Kong: Relations with Chinese and British

Host Societies‟, seminar at the Department of Sociology, Hong Kong

Baptist University, October.

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2000 Interview on Hong Kong Indians for the World Report (Indian

Television), December.

2000 „Transnationalism Hong Kong Style: The Identities of Jews, Muslims and

Indians‟, seminar at the Department of Anthropology, The Chinese

University of Hong Kong, October.

2000 Interview for the „Hong Kong Heritage Programme‟ of Radio Three,

RTHK on the history of the Indian community in Hong Kong, October.

2000 Interview for Star TV Asia on Indians in Hong Kong, May.

1999 Seminar on Hong Kong Muslims, Centre of Asia Pacific Social

Transformation Studies, the University of Wollongong, Australia,

October.

1999 Lecture on the social history of the Jewish community of Hong Kong to

the Royal Asiatic Society, City Hall, Hong Kong, June.

1999 Interview for the „Hong Kong Heritage Programme‟ of Radio Three,

RTHK, on the history of the Jewish community in Hong Kong, January.

1998 Series of lectures on the history of the Jewish community in Hong Kong,

The Jewish Community Centre, Hong Kong, March-December.

1998 „The Jewish Community in Hong Kong‟ presentation given to the Igud

Yotzei Sin (Association of Former Residents of China), Tel Aviv, Israel,

June.

1997 „Membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

(Mormons), seminar at the Department of Japanese, The University of

Hong Kong, November.

1997 „Chinese Participation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

(Mormons) in Hong Kong‟, seminar at the Centre of Asian Studies, The

University of Hong Kong.

Teaching

Undergraduate courses 8. HS4018 Cultural Change: Conceptual, Analytical, and Substantive Approaches, Seminar

Course, Division of Sociology,

Nanyang Technological University,

Singapore.

7. HS301 Contemporary Social Theory Division of Sociology, Nanyang

Technological University, Singapore.

6. HS2011/HS211 Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations Division of Sociology, Nanyang

Technological University, Singapore.

5. HS8008 Understanding Culture and Globalization (General Education course) Division of

Sociology, Nanyang Technological

University, Singapore.

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4. HS2007/HS207 Understanding Globalization Division of Sociology, Nanyang

Technological University, Singapore.

3. Hong Kong‟s Ethnic Minorities: Indians, Jews and Muslims, Department of History, The

Chinese University of Hong Kong.

2. Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Integrated Humanities (re-named to: Introduction

to Quantitative and Qualitative

Methods in Public History),

Department of History, The

Chinese University of Hong Kong.

1. Sociological Theory: Contemporary Approaches Department of Sociology, Hong

Kong Baptist University.

Co-teaching undergraduate courses

5. HS202 Doing Social Research Division of Sociology, Nanyang

Technological University, Singapore.

4. HS204 Culture, Self and Identity Division of Sociology, Nanyang

Technological University, Singapore.

3. Principles of Sociology Department of Sociology, Hong

Kong Baptist University.

2. Tradition and Transformation in World-Civilizations Department of History, The

Chinese University of Hong Kong.

1. Ethics and Research Department of Education, The

University of Hong Kong.

Graduate courses

1. HS7002: Contemporary Sociological Theory and Research Division of Sociology,

Nanyang Technological University,

Singapore.

Co-teaching graduate courses

2. HS9003 Theory and Methods in Social Research Division of Sociology, Nanyang

Technological University, Singapore.

1. Critical Thinking and Education Graduate Couse, Department of

Education, The University of Hong

Kong.

Student supervision

Graduate students

Supervisor of Erasmus Mundus exchange graduate student, Mr. Gzegorz Lechowski,

AY2013/14 sem.1.

Supervisor of graduate Research Student, Ms. Grace Wong, AY2008/09 sem.1.

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Undergraduate and pre-university students

Supervisor of Mr. Soon Ling Wei Nathaniel, and Ms. Tan Shi Ying, NTU Talent

Outreach pre-university students, July 2013-April 2014.

Examiner of 5 NTU Talent Outreach Program pre-university students‟ Final Projects,

April 2014.

Mentor of First Year undergraduate students, AY12/13, AY13/14, AY14/15

(approximately 10 students per year).

Supervisor of Professional Attachment undergraduate students (HPAP): May-

July/August 2010, May-July/August 2011, May-July/August 2014 (approximately 8

students per year).

Mentor of Final Year sociology students‟ Honors Theses, AY10/11, AY11/12,

AY12/13, AY13/14, AY14/15 (approximately 6-8 students per year).

Collaboration with undergraduate Students, and Nanyang Talent Outreach students

Co-authored published book chapter with my former Honors Thesis Student, Ms.

Amanda Ee Hui Li (Ee, Plüss and Chan 2013).

Co-authoring international refereed journal article in progress with my two HPAP

students, Mr. Soon Ling Wei Nathaniel and Ms. Tan Shi Ying, and with my former

Honours Thesis Student, Ms. Joy Suvin Ling (Plüss, Soon, Tan and Ling n. d.).

Pedagogical education

2012 Workshop on „Mix and Match: Blending Learning with LAMS‟, NTU.

2012 Workshop on „Active learning in Small Class Settings‟, NTU.

2011 Workshop on Mimio and Turning Point software for the „NTU Classroom

of Tomorrow‟, NTU.

2011 Workshop on „How to Read Teaching Evaluations‟, NTU.

2010 Course participations and Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education,

NIE.

2010 Turinitin software for plagiarism checking, NTU.

2010 Epson-software to use new „NTU interactive Classroom of Tomorrow‟,

NTU.

2005 N-Vivo qualitative data analysis software.

Service for international refereed journals and book publisher

Journal of Contemporary Religion

Editorial board member (2000 - on-going) and manuscript referee.

Recent manuscript referee for: The British Journal of Sociology, International Sociology,

Asian Journal of Social Sciences, Gender, Place and Culture, Social Politics, Global

Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs,

and Asian Anthropology.

Book referee: Springer.

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Administration and service

Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Organizer of the International Workshop on Transnational Migrant Identity in Asia:

Intersecting Cultural, Social and Economic Dimensions, Centre for Liberal Arts and

Social Studies, (17 - 18 Dec. 2009).

Representing the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the visit by the

delegation from Binghamton University, SUNY, at NTU (2008).

Member of the Academic Council.

Advising NTU students from within, and from outside of, the Division of Sociology

on their research projects (2006 - on-going).

School of Humanities and Social Sciences (NTU)

Representing research on transnationalism for the visit by the Berlin Social Science

Research Centre (WBZ) to the School (2 Oct. 2012).

Member of the Global Asia Research Cluster.

Division of Sociology (NTU)

Divisional Research Representative (2007 - on-going): Coordinate Research

Committee of the Division of Sociology, provide university with information on

research in the Division, inform colleagues of research and ethics matters, and list

research projects and publications of the Division of Sociology for NTU directories

and webpages.

Member of the Research (2007 - on-going), Ethics (2009 - on-going), Graduate

Studies (2007 - 2009), and Library (2006) Committees.

Drafted Research Integrity Form for the Division of Sociology (2012).

Drafted first Ethics Approval Form for the Division of Sociology (2007).

Provide students with references for their professional careers and/or overseas studies

(2006 - on-going).

Invited guest speaker for HS202 Doing Social Research (2009).

Study visit, and workshop coordinator for HS211 Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations

students (2008).

Interviewer and examiner of prospective sociology students (2006 - on-going).

Representative of the Division of Sociology at various functions introducing the

division to prospective students (2006 - on-going).

The University of Hong Kong

Committee Member of the Hong Kong Culture and Society Programme (1999 -

2001). This work included helping to set up an area of excellence at HKU.

Member of the organizing committee of the „International Conference on Hong Kong

and Modern China‟ (1997).

The Asia Pacific Migration Research Network (APMRN) and The University of Hong Kong

Co-organizer of the „Second International Conference of the Asia - Pacific Migration

Research Network‟ (1998).

International Sociological Association

Organizer of panel „Making Global Society‟, 3rd

ISA Forum of Sociology (2016).

Chair of RC31 Best Book Prize panel (2015 - ongoing).

Board Member of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Migration (2010 -

2014, and 2014 - 2018): Participate in administrative matters, board policies, and board

decisions.

Organizer of roundtable „Transnationalism‟, XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology

(2014).

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Organizer of panel „Transnational Lives: Inequalities and Adaptation‟, XVIII ISA

World Congress of Sociology (2014).

Organizer of panel „Repeat Migration and Social Inequalities and Equalities‟, Second

ISA Forum of Sociology (2012).

Organizer of panel „Transnational Migration and Identity: Intersecting Cultural, Social

and Economic Dimensions‟, XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology (2010).

International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS)

Panel Chair „Migrants and Movements‟ (Panel I), The Fifth International Convention of

Asia Scholars, Kuala Lumpur (2007).

The Hong Kong Anthropological Society

Executive Committee Member (1998 - 2000).

American Association for Asian Studies

Organizer of the Annual Meeting panel „Maintaining Identities, Changing

Identities: The Baghdadi Jewish Diaspora in South, South East and East Asia‟

(2001).

Co-organizer of the Annual General Meeting panel „Cultural, National and Islamic

Identities in Asia‟ (2000).

International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas

Chaired panels „Politics, Cultures and Education - Chinese in Southeast Asia‟, and

„Indigenization and Identity - Hybridity and Cultural Identity in Southeast Asia‟, at

7th

International Conference (2010).

Current professional affiliations

Member of: American Association for Asian Studies, American Sociological

Association, International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, International

Sociological Association, and TRANSFORM (Humboldt University, Berlin,

Germany).

Languages

English, French, and German; some spoken Cantonese (Chinese), Italian, and

Spanish.