{"id":2641,"date":"2026-01-31T13:11:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/people\/professor-wong-si-lon-seanon\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T13:11:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:11:34","slug":"professor-wong-si-lon-seanon","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/people\/professor-wong-si-lon-seanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor WONG Si Lon, Seanon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section block-name=\"banner\" class=\"relative\">\n    <div class=\"bg-banner-gradient w-full h-full absolute left-0 top-0 z-[1]\"><\/div>\n\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/wp-content\/themes\/cuhk-sgps\/public\/images\/our-mission\/mission-banner.png\" alt=\"Academic Staff\"\n        class=\"w-full aspect-[1920\/480] object-cover min-h-[400px]\" \/>\n\n    <div class=\"container py-5 md:py-10 lg:py-[60px] w-full h-full flex items-end absolute left-0 bottom-0 z-[2]\">\n        <div 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(USC)<\/h4>\n                            \n                            <div>\n                                <div id=\"idTextPanel\" class=\"jqDnR\">\n<p>Seanon (\u201cSean\u201d) Wong received his Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Southern California in 2015. He also holds a Certificate from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, and an M.A. in International Relations and B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in\u00a0<em>International Theory<\/em>,\u00a0<em>European Journal of International Relations<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Journal of Global Security Studies<\/em>,\u00a0<em>International Studies Review<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Asian Perspective<\/em>. Before returning to school for his graduate training, he sold his soul to the devil and worked for several years in the late-2000s as a management consultant in mainland China, Europe and the US.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Personal website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanwong-ir.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.seanwong-ir.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google Scholar page:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=0_gVlCoAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=0_gVlCoAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                        <\/div>\n\n                                            \n                        <div class=\"border-b border-stroke py-10 last:border-0 last:pb-0 first:pt-0 [&#038;_a]:!text-primary\">\n\n                                                            <h4>Research and Teaching Interests:<\/h4>\n                            \n                            <div>\n                                <ul>\n<li>International relations theory<\/li>\n<li>Security studies<\/li>\n<li>Diplomacy<\/li>\n<li>Political psychology<\/li>\n<li>Identity and intergroup conflicts<\/li>\n<li>International relations of East Asia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                        <\/div>\n\n                                    \n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"featured_media":2642,"menu_order":124,"template":"","people_category":[49],"department":[],"class_list":["post-2641","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","people_category-academic-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"people_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people_category?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}