Sealing Cheng

Sealing Cheng is the Henry Luce Assistant Professor in the Women’s Studies Department. She joined Wellesley in spring 2005. Her courses include Introduction to Women’s Studies, Global Feminism, Love and Intimacy, and Asian Women on the Move.

Cheng is an anthropologist and researches on issues of sexuality, prostitution, migration, trafficking, and human rights, with a focus on South Korea, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. She received her undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of Hong Kong. In 1997, she was awarded a Swire/Cathay Pacific scholarship to pursue her doctorate studies in anthropology at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.

Before coming to Wellesley, Cheng taught at the University of Hong Kong as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2002–2003. She was a Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights at Columbia University from 2003–2004. She also teaches at the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her journal articles have appeared in Health and Human Rights, International Feminist Journal of Politics, East Asia, and Asia-Pacific Viewpoint. She is currently working on her manuscript Transnational Desires: Filipina Entertainers in U.S. Military Camp Towns in South Korea.

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Profile last updated: 5/05