Professor Chong (PhD University of Chicago) specializes in the areas of gender, religion, race and ethnicity, East Asian studies, Asian American studies, and social theory. For the past several years, her research has focused on the politics of gender and conversion in contemporary South Korean evangelicalism; her book Deliverance and Submission: Korean Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy has been published by Harvard University Press in 2008. Her current and future research include the production and construction of gender and ethnic culture in the Asian and American American contexts, the transformation and global circulation of religion, and cultural change in contemporary South Korea. Her publications include articles in Gender and Society, Sociology of Religion, The Journal of Women’s History, Qualitative Sociology as well as chapters in collected volumes. She was awarded the Best Research Article Awards from the Sociology of Religion section and the Asia/Asian-America section of the American Sociological Association in 2008. She is also a recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, including the Fulbright Fellowship and most recently, the Korea Foundation Advanced Research Fellowship. She was a former Research Associate/Visiting Lecturer at the Women's Studies in Religion Program in Harvard Divinity School and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale University. Areas: Gender, Religion, Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, East Asian studies, Asian-American studies, and Social Theory.
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