Ann Brooks is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. She is the author of several books on contemporary and cultural theory, including Social Theory in Contemporary Asia: Intimacy, Reflexivity and Identity (Routledge, 2010), Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets (Routledge, 2011) and Emotions in Transmigration: Transformation, Movement and Identity (Palgrave 2012) with co-author Ruth Simpson. She is also a member of the Australian Research Council funded Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 2011-2017.