Growing Manpower Resource

Post-doctoral Fellowships (PDFs)

In addition to joint professorships, the Institute has also created post-doctoral fellow positions, some of which have been established with the Faculty of Arts: Dr. Christine Luk (2016–2018, with Arts) and Dr. Till Mostowlansky (2018, with Arts). Both of them worked closely with colleagues in Faculty of Arts to do undergraduate teaching and to co-organize joint academic events. Four other young scholars joined the Institute in 2018 and 2019: Dr. Kyoungjin Bae and Dr. Chaoxiong Zhang (under the CRF Project on “Making Modernities in East Asia”), Dr. Elvan Cobb, and Dr. Jonathan Y. H. Hui, one of the first HKU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows.

These young talents were trained at renowned universities in the United States and Europe — Cornell University, Columbia University, Washington University in St. Louis, Arizona State University, Bern University and the University of Cambridge. Their intellectual interests are closely tied to the Institute’s Inter-Asia agenda. In a relatively short amount of time, they have increased the visibility of the Institute’s programs by organizing well-attended seminars, linking the Institute with local and overseas institutions through participation in research events, and producing publications.