Ting Hui Lau
Lau Ting Hui is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on mental health, development, and Indigeneity in Asia. Her first book, Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking against Chinese Settler Colonialism (Stanford University Press, 2026), draws on over a decade of engagement and two years of continuous ethnographic fieldwork with Lisu subsistence farmers along the China–Myanmar border. The book examines how development perpetuates colonial violence and argues for the need for public health to engage with questions of cultural revitalization, Indigenous sovereignty, and decolonial perspectives. Her second book, tentatively titled “Cascades of Dispossession: Extraction Afterlives from Borneo to the Pacific Islands,” will employ autoethnographic approaches to explore the intertwined relationships between Indigenous–settler relations, healthcare provision, and capitalist reproduction.