Professor Wong Suk Ying received her PhD from Stanford University (USA) and is currently an Emeritus Professor with the Department of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She was a member of the teaching faculty at several other higher education institutions in the United States and Japan before joining CUHK in 1997. Professor Wong was a recipient of the US National Academy of Education Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award and is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Her primary interests are the sociology of education, organisations and comparative sociology, and much of her research and writing relate to the role of education in the construction of modern nationalism and identity formation. Her teaching interests include the sociology of education, the classics of modern social theory and Chinese and Japanese society from a comparative perspective. She was the recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award at CUHK in 2005.
- Sociology of education
- Comparative and historical sociology
- Institutionalism and social organizations
- Higher Education
| 2015 | “Citizenship as a National and Transnational Enterprise: How Education Shapes Regional and Global Relevance.” in Transnational Trajectories: Nation, Citizenship, and Region in East Asia. (co-authored with Yasemin N. Soysal) |
| 2006 | “Educating Future Citizens in Europe and Asia.” Chapter in School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspectives: Changing Curriculum in Primary and Secondary Education, edited by Aaron Benavot and Cecilia Braslavsky. New York and London: Springer-Kluwer Academic Publishing. (co-authored with Yasemin N. Soysal) |
| 2000 | “What Counts As History: A Cross-National and Longitudinal Study of University Curricula.” Comparative Education Review, 44: 29-53. (Co-authored with David Frank) |
| 1991 | “The Evolution of Social Science Instructions (1900-1986): A Cross-National Study.” Sociology of Education, 64: 33-47. |
| 1991 | “Knowledge for the Masses: World Models and National Curricula, 1920-1986.” American Sociological Review, 56: 85-100. (Co-authored with Aaron Benavot, et al.) |