Academics

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Siufung Law is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, where they are also a 2026–27 Dean’s Teaching Fellow and a recipient of the Laney Graduate School Scholarship. Their work is grounded in transgender studies, queer theory, Asian and Sinophone studies, sports cultural studies, and feminist ethnography, with a particular interest in how gender, embodiment, and activism intersect across transnational contexts.

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Their Ph.D. dissertation examines the emergence of nonbinary gender divisions in bodybuilding in Taiwan, using ethnographic methods to conceptualize “thirdness” through the intertwined lenses of geopolitics, categorical politics, and body politics. Across this project and related scholarship, Law explores how trans and nonbinary embodiment, sports governance, and regional activism in Asia open new ways of thinking about gender beyond dominant Euro-American frameworks.

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Siufung has shared their dissertation research transnationally through invited lectures and workshops at Portland State University, the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lingnan University of Hong Kong, and Far Eastern University in the Philippines, among others. Their work has also been featured in a conference keynote address at Hong Kong Baptist University. In addition, their research has been widely presented at conferences and symposia such as the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS), the Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies conference, the bell hooks center Symposium, the State of Hong Kong Studies Workshop at the University of British Columbia, the UCR Conference on Queer and Trans Studies in Religion, the Susan B. Anthony Writing Workshop, Thinking Gender at UCLA, Crossroads in Cultural Studies, and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference. Their publications appear across multiple journals and edited volumes of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Sport, Education and Society, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Feminist Encounters, Science for the People, and The Lancet Planetary Health. One of their recent publication is a collaboration with Bonnie Pang and Denise Tang, "Trans*, female bodybuilding and racial equality: narratives from a Hong Kong Chinese gender-fluid bodybuilder."

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