Heidi Fung is a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. She received her doctoral training in psychology and human development at the University of Chicago. After teaching in the Department of Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she returned to her native Taiwan in 1996 to assume her current post. She was a visiting scholar at the Yenching Institute and the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University in 2000-2001.
Dr. Fung has long been interested in how to situate human development in socio-cultural contexts. Her research involves the socialization of emotion, daily disciplinary and moral training practices, and child-rearing beliefs across cultures. Recently she conducted multi-sited fieldwork in Taiwan and Vietnam to explore how socialization and family ties are practiced across borders and generations by Vietnamese marriage migrants to Taiwan.