Dr Herbary Cheung (he/dia/เขา/佢) is a Lecturer in Gender Studies and Work Integrated Learning/Internship Coordinator at the Malaysia School of Arts and Social Sciences (SASS), Monash University. Born, raised and educated in the States, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong, he received his PhD from The Education University of Hong Kong under the prestigious Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS). He is an awardee of the Ernst Mach Grant - worldwide from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF). Before joining Monash University in October 2023, he worked as a Research Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 

Trained as a feminist sociologist and Southeast Asianist, he believes “knowledge is co-produced in ethnographic research”. His research engages with gender and migration, family, marriage and health, intersectionality, and contextual mobility, focusing on Southeast Asia-Hong Kong connections.

He has published in high-quality refereed journals, including Qualitative Research, Culture, Health & Sexuality, Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Sociology, and South East Asia Research. His research outputs have advanced both theoretical and methodological approaches in gendered migration studies, critical family and health studies, and studies on intersectionality, postcolonialism and ethnography. He is the author of two monographs, Engendering Migration Journey: Identity, Ethnicity and Gender of Thai Migrant Women in Hong Kong (Palgrave Macmillan Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series, 2023) and Single Mothers in Thailand - Women, Motherhood, and Going it All Alone (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

He is a Research Associate at the Institut de Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine (IRASEC), supported by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE - UMIFRE 22) and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS - UAR 3142) and Associate Member at the Centre for East Asian Studies (EASt), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), working on migration and conjugal mixedness in Europe-Asia social spaces.

Inspired by “power in unity”, Herbary serves as an executive committee member of The Hong Kong Society for Asylum-Seekers and Refugees (HKSASR), the first refugee-led organization jointly managed by local Hong Kongers and refugees since 2018.