An eminent Malaysian academic abroad
By Maznah Mohamad
June 2010 PENANG PROFILE
Professor Aihwa Ong is an internationally respected anthropologist with at least 10 books to her name. Born in Penang where she had her entire pre-tertiary education, she is now a Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, the United States. Ong’s best known book is Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (1987). Her writings have been translated into German, Italian, Portuguese, French and Chinese. She was recently based at Singapore’s Asia Research...
Maznah Mohamad
is a Singapore-based Malaysian academic who researches and writes on gender, Islam and Malaysian politics.
