Members
Different disciplines, backgrounds, and perspectives.
Counterpoint is shaped by members from different fields
and cultural backgrounds, each bringing their own
questions, experiences, and ways of approaching the
understudied.
01
Mar Lorence Ticao
History
Coordinator
Mar is a historian and architect who spends
a great deal of time reading old newspapers
and maps. Her work explores Manila through stories
of fires, floods, inequality, everyday life,
and attempts to remake the city. She is fascinated
by how the past keeps showing up in the present.
She also experiments with digital tools to find new ways
of exploring, connecting, and telling these stories.
Urban History · Colonial Manila · Environmental History ·
Digital Humanities · Public History
02
Misa Cheung
Anthropology
Misa is trained in anthropology and is interested in the
phenomenon of baan gung (扮工, “pretending to work”)
in Hong Kong offices. She hopes to explore how the
ethics of work can become a game of imitation rather
than producing tangible outcomes, and what this might
reveal about the capitalist economic system.
Office Culture · Work Ethics · Performative Act · BL · Multicultural Education · AI Education
03
Cory HUANG Xiadong
History
Cory is a PhD candidate in the Department of
History at CUHK. He is currently working on a dissertation,
Creolizing the World in an Island: Changing Cosmopolitanism
in Nineteenth-Century Mauritius. His research interests
focus on the history of South China, Southeast Asia,
and the Indian Ocean.
Indian Ocean · Tropical Islands · South China · Intercultural Studies · Decoloniality
04
Dannie LEI Danyang
Architecture & Urban Studies
Dannie holds a PhD in Architecture from CUHK,
as well as a bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture
and a master's degree in Urban Design. Her research examines
age-friendly neighbourhoods and older migrants' social integration,
with a focus on how everyday urbanism shapes ageing and mobility
experiences in high-rise, high-density urban settings.
Ageing · Neighbourhoods · Social Inclusion · High-density Cities
05
Carleon Mendoza
Linguistics
Carleon is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at CUHK.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, his research bridges
theoretical linguistics and real-world application,
specializing in heritage languages, multilingual acquisition,
and morphosyntax. Drawing on his experience as an educator,
he advocates for linguistic diversity and cultural identity,
engaging students, parents, local Chinese children,
ethnic minorities, and the broader community.
Heritage Languages · Multilingual Acquisition · Morphosyntax
06
Chiamaka Linda MGBECHIDINMA
Life Sciences
Chiamaka Linda Mgbechidinma is a dedicated researcher,
writer, and advocate whose current research at CUHK focuses
on environmental sustainability and sustainable agriculture.
She is also interested in transnational solidarity and in
creating more inclusive spaces where Global South communities
can shape and represent their own narratives.
Plant Science · Microbiology · Interdisciplinary Research · Environmental Science
07
Carlos Pardo Pérez
History
Carlos is from Spain and is currently an MPhil student at CUHK.
His research focuses on Philippine history from the early
modern period to the late nineteenth century, including
legal history and relations between Japan, Spain,
and the Philippines. He holds a bachelor's degree in History
and a master's degree in Education. He is particularly
interested in intercultural and transnational encounters,
translation, and communication through time.
Philippine History · Transnational History · Literature · Languages · Psychology
08
Yanyu Sun
Architectural History
Yanyu is a writer and researcher based between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. With a background in architectural history and design, her work explores cities through their everyday spaces, objects, infrastructure, and cultures.
Architectural History · Material culture · Urban culture · Urban Infrastructure
09
Michael Lane Tessmer
Higher Education
Michael is an assistant lecturer at CUHK and a PhD candidate
in the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong.
His research interests include identity, postgraduate education,
and comparative politics and higher education policy.
Higher Education Policy & Practice · Comparative Politics · Graduate Education · Identity
10
ZHOU Mianmian Rebecca
Education
Rebecca is a PhD student in language education. She explores what motivates people to learn languages and what draws them into, or away from, classroom tasks.
Task-based Language Teaching · Task Engagement · L2 Motivation
11
Anson Leung
Communication
"Ignorance is strength."
Migration · Power · Kinship · Ethnography
