Faculty
Starting from the seminal group of two faculty in 2003, the Social Sciences and Humanities faculty has grown to a total strength of 33 full-time faculty in 2012. Faculty members hold PhDs from top universities such as Harvard, Yale and Michigan, and also serve as members on national councils, editors or editorial board members of prestigious scholarly journals, or are recipients of international scholarly awards. Their views and opinions on major current issues are also frequently sought after and featured in the media. Here is a sampling of SOSS faculty achievements:
Professor David Chan was made a Fellow at the American Psychological Association (APA) and is the first in Asia to receive Elected Fellow status from all four international associations of psychology (i.e., IAAP, SIOP, APS, APA). He is also the Director of the Behavioural Sciences Institute at SMU.
Professor Ann Florini has been a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution since 2002, and was previously the Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Professor Norman Li has researched extensively on evolutionary psychology and in particular on the psychology of mating, and was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Fellow for Research Excellence in 2011 for his work.
Professor Kirpal Singh is a well-known figure in local, regional, and international literary circles, having been invited to perform at numerous international arts festivals, and written extensively on literature and creativity.
Professor Margaret Chan is widely regarded as the theatre doyenne of Singapore, and is best known for her seminal role as the titular character in Emily of Emerald Hill. She imparts her knowledge in classes on theatre, scriptwriting and drama, as well as on her research in Chinese spirit medium worship and Chinese popular religion.
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Famous quotes containing the word faculty:
“It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man’s judgement.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this faculty as a ‘language acquisition device,’ an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)