CHUA Beng Huat

Bio

Chua Beng Huat is Emeritus Professor. He had been Professor of Urban Studies at the Yale-NUS College and Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. Professor Chua received his PhD from York University, Canada. His research areas include urban and public housing studies, political economy of Singapore and Cultural Studies in Asia. He has previously served as Provost Chair Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Science (2009-2017), Research Leader, Cultural Studies in Asia Cluster, Asia Research Institute (2000-2015); Convenor of Cultural Studies Programmes (2008-2013) and Head of Department of Sociology (2009-2015), National University of Singapore. His publications include: The Golden Shoe: Building Singapore’s Financial District (1989), Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore (1995), Political Legitimacy and Housing: Stakeholding in Singapore (1997) and Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore (2017), was on the list of Best Books of 2018 by Foreign Affairs journal. He is the founding co-executive editor of the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.