Dr Herbary Cheung (he/dia/เขา/佢) is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Gender Studies at the Malaysia School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University. Born, raised, and educated across the United States, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, he received his PhD in Sociology and Social Policy under the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme. He is also a recipient of the Ernst Mach Grant – Worldwide, awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. Prior to joining Monash University in 2023, he served as a Research Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Trained as a sociologist and Southeast Asianist, he approaches education and research as collaborative processes, co-producing knowledge with students, communities, and the public. His work critically examines the intersections of gender and migration; family, marriage and health; social development and social policy, with a focus on their wider social impacts in Southeast Asia. 

Dr Cheung has published in leading peer-reviewed SSCI and A&HCI journals such as Qualitative Research, Journal of Sociology, Culture, Health & Sexuality, Journal of Family Studies, South East Asia Research, Moussons: Recherche en Sciences Humaines sur l'Asie du Sud-Est. His scholarship advances theoretical and methodological debates in gendered migration studies, critical family and health studies, and research on intersectionality and ethnography. He is the author of two monographs: Engendering Migration Journey (Palgrave Macmillan Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series, 2023) and Single Mothers in Thailand (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

He is currently a Research Associate at Institut de Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine (IRASEC), supported by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE - UMIFRE 22) and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS - UAR 3142), and an Associate Member at the Centre for East Asian Studies (EASt), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he is involved in pursue social justice in gender and migration research.

In 2025, he received the GenSeM Best Article Award on Gender, Sexuality and Migration from IMISCOE for an article co-authored with Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot. He also serves on the editorial boards of two leading international journals: The International Journal of Qualitative Methods (SSCI Q1, IF 3.9) since 2024, and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (SSCI Q1, IF 3.7) since 2023.