Ian Morley is an Associate Professor based in the Department of History, and Associate Professor (by Courtesy) on CUHK’s Urban Studies Programme. He has published widely on the design of built environments during the late-1800s and early-1900s. Prof. Morley has also participated in television documentaries for The Discovery Channel and Voom!, as well as been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal Asia, The Los Angeles Times, Southeast Asia Globe, La Stampa and the US’ National Public Radio (about British colonial architecture in Yangon, Myanmar). In addition he has contributed to media outlets such as Hong Kong News, Baguio Midland Courier, Al Jazeera and Agence France Presse (AFP) about Philippine urban history. From 2009 to 2014 he was the Book Review Editor for Urban Morphology: Journal of the International Seminar on Urban Form. He currently is an editorial board member of the journal Planning Perspectives as well as a council member of the International Planning History Society. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney and University College Dublin, and in 2012 was a Visiting Scholar on the urbanism programme held by the Universidade Estudual de Maringá and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. In mid-2015 he was a Global Humanities Junior Research and Teaching Fellow at the Free University in Berlin, Germany. He was also in mid-2015 an awardee of the CUHK Faculty of Arts Humanities Fellowship Scheme. He is the recipient of the 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2016 History Department Teaching Award. In 2010, 2011, 2015, and 2016 he was also awarded the Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award, and in 2016 was nominated for the University Teaching Award. In 2014 he was a successful applicant to CUHK’s International Partnership Development Programme and Short-Term Faculty Exchange Programme (both undertaken at Brown University, USA). He has been awarded two General Research Fund grants from Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council, and four CUHK Courseware Development Grants plus one CUHK Micro-Module Courseware Development Grant. In late-2015/early-2016 he curated an exhibition on behalf of the Department of History with the Philippine Consulate and CUHK University Library on ‘The History of the Philippines in Flags and Maps’. In mid-2017 Prof. Morley was convenor of the conference Southeast Asia in Evolution: Trans-Pacific Agency and the City, c. 1850-1941.

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