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XIAOSHUO HOU, PH.D. Skidmore College·Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 [email protected]·518-580-5427 ______

EDUCATION 2008 Ph.D. in Sociology, Boston University Concentrations: Economic Sociology, Social Change, China Dissertation: “Capitalist Collectivism: Contradiction or Synthesis?”

2002 B.A. in English (with High Distinction), Nanjing University, China Concentration on International Communication

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Sociology of Development, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Organizations, China

EMPLOYMENT Skidmore College, Department of Sociology and the Asian Studies Program Associate Professor, Spring 2016- (tenured since March 2018) Frances Young Tang ‘61 Chair in Chinese Studies, 2016-2021

St. Lawrence University, Department of Sociology Associate Professor (tenured), Fall 2015 Assistant Professor, Fall 2009-Spring 2015

University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Sociology Visiting Assistant Professor, 2008-2009

PUBLICATIONS * designates scholarship after joining Skidmore Peer-Reviewed Book • Xiaoshuo Hou. 2014 (paperback), 2013 (hardback). Community in China: The State, the Market, and Collectivism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. (Reviewed in The China Journal; Pacific Affairs; the Economic Sociology and Political Economy blog)

Edited Volumes • John Stone, Rutledge Dennis, Polly Rizova, and Xiaoshuo Hou, eds. Forthcoming in 2020. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion on Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Wiley-Blackwell.*

• John Stone, Rutledge Dennis, Polly Rizova, Anthony D. Smith, and Xiaoshuo Hou, eds. 2016. The

1/11 Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, five volumes. Wiley-Blackwell.*

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters Xiaoshuo Hou and Ping Li. Forthcoming in 2019. “Whose Legitimacy? China’s Drive for Electric Vehicles. ” Sociology of Development.*

• Xiaoshuo Hou and Siqi Chen. Forthcoming in 2020. “Dance with the State: The Case of a Chinese Social Service Organization.” Social Economy in Asia: Realities and Perspectives, edited by Euiyoung Kim and Hiroki Miura. Lexington Books.*

• Xiaoshuo Hou. 2014. “Dissecting China’s Rise: Controversies over the China Model.” China Perspectives 2014(2): 61-67. (French version: Perspectives chinoises, 2014/2: 67-74).

• Xiaoshuo Hou. 2011. “From Mao to the Market: Community Capitalism in Rural China.” Theory, Culture & Society 28(2): 46-68. DOI: 10.1177/0263276410396917.

Invited Journal Articles and Book Sections • Xiaoshuo Hou. Forthcoming in 2020. “The Paradox of Nationalism and Globalism: China’s Participation in Global Capitalism.” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion on Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. Wiley-Blackwell.*

• Xiaoshuo Hou. 2016. “East Asia.” The Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, Volume II, pp. 637-646. Wiley-Blackwell.*

• Xiaoshuo Hou. 2016. “Market Transition.” The Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, Vol ume III, pp. 1354 -1359. Wiley-Blackwell.*

• John Stone and Xiaoshuo Hou. 2016. “Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805-1859).” The Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, Volume V, pp. 2055-2057. Wiley-Blackwell.*

• Xiaoshuo Hou and Ling Xiao. 2012. “An Analysis of the Changing Doctor-Patient Relationship in China.” Journal International de Bioéthique (International Journal of Bioethics) 23(2): 83-94. DOI: 10.3917/jib.232.0083.

Review Articles and Book Reviews • Xiaoshuo Hou. 2017. Review Essay. “Exceptionalism or Universalism?: The Social and Environmental Consequences of China’s .” ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts 24(1): 151-158. DOI: 10.16995/ane.248.*

• Xiaoshuo Hou. 2011. Review of Reactions to the Market: Small Farmers in the Economic Reshaping of Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, and China by Laura J. Enríquez. Contemporary Sociology 40(2): 173-175. DOI: 10.1177/0094306110396847p.

2/11 • John Stone and Xiaoshuo Hou. 2010. “Alexis de Tocqueville in the Twenty-First Century: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose?” Theory and Society 39(1): 109-118. DOI: 10.1007/s11186-009-9099-z.

• Xiaoshuo Hou. 2008. “The Social Meaning of and Intimacy,” Review of The Purchase of Intimacy by Viviana A. Zelizer. Theory and Society 37(3): 311-315. DOI: 10.1007/s11186-008-9060-6.

• Xiaoshuo Hou and John Stone. 2008. “The Ethnic Dilemma in China’s ” Ethnic and Racial Studies 31(4): 812-817. DOI: 10.1080/01419870801957118.

• Xiaoshuo Hou. 2004. Review of Social Connections in China by Thomas Gold, Doug Guthrie, and David Wank. Journal of Asian Studies 63(4): 1101-1102. DOI: 10.1017/S0021911804002591.

WORK IN PROGRESS • Xiaoshuo Hou. Young and Restless in China: Informal Economy and the Emerging Precariat.*

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, INVITED TALKS, AND MEDIA APPEARANCES • “Fieldwork in Sociology.” Invited lecture at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, 09/23/2019.

• “Dance with the State: The Case of a Social Service Organization.” Invited lecture at Seoul National University Asia Center, South Korea, 12/27/2018.

• “Balancing Growth and Sustainability: China’s Environmental Challenges.” Invited lecture for IA101 Introduction to International Affairs, Skidmore College, 10/23/2018.

• “Doing Ethnography in China.” Invited lecture for MB351 Insight-Driven Marketing: Theory and Practice, 09/28/2018.

• “The Paradox of Globalism and Nationalism: China under Xi Jinping,” paper presentation at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting (Mini-conference on in Uncertain Times), 02/24/2018.

• Panelist, “From the Asian Miracle to the Asian Century: A Panel Discussion on East Asia in the Global Order,” Asian Studies Program, Skidmore College, 11/15/2017.

• “Greening the Economy?: The Case of Electric Vehicles in China,” invited paper presentation at the International Workshop on “Social Economy in Asia: Diversity and Common Agendas” organized by the Seoul National University Asia Center, South Korea, 06/23/2017-06/24/2017.

• “Trust in the Era of Food Anxiety: Selling 'Home-Made' Food Online in China,” paper presentation at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting (Mini-conference on Food), 02/25/2017.

3/11 • “Community Capitalism in Rural China.” Invited lecture at SOAR North Country, 11/07/2014.

• “Community Capitalism in China: The State, the Market, and Collectivism.” Talk given at the Book Publication Celebration, St. Lawrence University, 05/02/2014.

• Panelist, “Supporting Faculty of Color: Teaching, Leadership, and Scholarship.” New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium Conference on Teaching, Scholarship, and Leadership: Faculty of Color in the Liberal Arts, 04/11/2014.

• “Build Your Dreams: China’s Green Initiatives.” Paper presentation at the Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 02/22/2014.

• Interviewed and quoted in “‘Da Huaxi’ Kunjing: Tudi Maodun Cheng Lanluhu” (Great Huaxi’s Dilemma: Land Conflicts Have Become the Obstacle), in Chinese. Diyi Caijing Ribao (China Business News), October 8, 2013. http://www.yicai.com/news/2013/10/3036431.html.

• “Eight Questions: Hou Xiaoshuo on Community Capitalism.” China Real Time Report, , March 21, 2013. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/03/21/eight-questions-hou-xiaoshou-on-community-capitalism/. Chinese version: http://cn.wsj.com/gb/20130322/rec160230.asp.

• “Community Capitalism: Grassroots Institutional Innovation in China.” Invited keynote speech at the First Model UN Conference at Ogdensburg Free Academy, 03/28/2012.

• “The Double Helix of China’s Rise: A Chinese Model of Development?” Paper presentation at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, 02/24/2012.

• “Factory Girls, Rural Transformation, and Human Rights,” invited lecture for “FYP: Human Rights in China,” St. Lawrence University, 10/26/2011.

• “From the Washington Consensus to the Beijing Consensus,” invited presentation at the 19th Global Chinese Elite Forum in Taiwan, July 25-August 2, 2011 (delivered in Chinese).

• “All Roads Lead to Washington?: Controversies over the China Model,” invited presentation at the International Conference on Visions and Perspectives: Global Studies in the 21st Century organized by Michigan State University and Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, May 27-29, 2011.

• “Back to the Future: Institutional Innovation in Rural China,” paper presentation at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, 03/19/2010.

• “From Mao to the Market: Three Variations on a Materialist Theme,” paper presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Conference, 08/01/2008.

4/11 • Interviewed by Erin Kutz and quoted in “You Bought What?: MIT professor researches impulse shopping pitfalls” by Bobby Cummings in The Daily Free Press, Friday, 10/05/2007.

• “Capitalist : A Tale of Three Chinese Villages,” presentation at the lunchtime seminar in the Department of Sociology, Boston University, 04/04/2007.

• “Capitalist Communism?: The Case of Nanjie Village,” paper presentation at the International Conference on Social Science Research, Vancouver, CA, 12/2006.

• Chair/Discussant of the panel “The Emerging Middle Class, Professionals, and Newly Rich,” the 8th Overseas Young Chinese Forum Annual Conference on Social Classes in Transitional China, the Center for Asian Studies at UC Irvine, May 26-28, 2016. • Guest speaker (with Prof. Tony Saich of Harvard University), “On Point” radio program on China’s sexual revolution at WBUR, Boston, MA, 12/19/2005.

• “Capitalist Communists: the Future of a Paradox,” paper presentation at Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations Annual Conference, Shanghai, China, 08/2004.

• “The End of ‘Economic Man:’ Trend of Market Ethics,” paper presentation at Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Conference, SUNY Binghamton, NY, 04/2003.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses Taught: Skidmore College AS101: Introduction to Asian Studies IG201: Race Dialogues: POC/White SO101: Sociological Perspectives SO215: China in Transition SO216: Food and Society SO315: Economy and Society

St. Lawrence University SOC 101: Principles of Sociology SOC 203: Foundations of Social Theory SOC 233: Consuming Food SOC/ASIA 278: China’s Market Transition SOC/ASIA 288: Dilemmas of Development SOC 337: Capstone Seminar: Economy and Society SOC 347: Special Topic: Modernity and Social Change SOC 348: Special Topic: Organizational Sociology

University of Massachusetts Amherst

5/11 SOC 106: Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity SOC 224: Social Class Inequality

Boston University SO304: Sociology of Formal Organizations SO410: Seminar: Sociology of Formal Organizations

Student Research Advising Experience at Skidmore Faculty Sponsor of Dylan Fleischman (’20)’s internship at Flex Shanghai, summer 2019 (3 credits).

Faculty Sponsor of Sindi Mafico (’19)’s internship at BET Networks, summer 2018 (1 credit).

Advisor of Tongtian Xiao (’18)’s Independent Study Project, spring 2018: A Preliminary Analysis of Corruption in China’s State-Owned Enterprises

Reader of Emma Marshall (’16)’s Senior Honors Thesis in Political Science, spring 2016: Militias and Their Stakeholders: A Comparative Historical Analysis of China and the United States

Student Research Advising Experience at St. Lawrence University: Advisor of Austin Roney’s Senior Honors Thesis in Sociology, 2014-2015: Beyond Dollars and Common Sense: A Search for the Social Influences of Happiness around the World

Advisor of Facundo Rivarola’s Senior Honors Thesis in Sociology, spring 2014: Globalization and Labor Rights in China: Interconnectedness or Disconnectedness between Consumer Activism and Workers’ Resistance?

Faculty Sponsor of Anna Kowanko’s Independent Research Project in India, spring 2014: Government Development Policy: Hurting or Helping Indian Farmers?

Reader of Nicole Eigbrett’s Senior Honors Thesis in Global Studies, spring 2014: Grape Wine in China: The Postmodern Beverage of

Reader of Paige Veidenheimer’s Senior Thesis in Global Studies, spring 2012: Blood Suckers in Failing and Functional Healthcare Systems: Neo-Liberal Kenya vs. Neo-Socialist Kerala

Reader of Andrew Leiser’s Senior Honors Thesis in Government, 2010-2011: Flexible Power: Strikes, Suicides and the Chinese Communist Party

Reader of Austin Dempewolff’s Senior Honors Thesis in Global Studies, spring 2011: The Changing Meanings of Migration and Being a Native or Outsider in 21st Century Shanghai: Pieces of a Municipal Identity

Faculty Mentor (with Dr. Eve Stoddard) of Austin Dempewolff ’11, student recipient of the Independent

6/11 Travel Research Grant, Center of International and Intercultural Studies, winter 2011: Migration’s Effect on the Roles and Status of Female Migrants to Shanghai

Faculty Mentor (with Dr. Grace Huang) of Andrew Leiser ’11, student recipient of the Independent Travel Research Grant, Center of International and Intercultural Studies, summer 2010: “The Chinese Dream:” The Perception of Opportunity for Advancement in the People’s Republic of China

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND HONORS Sabbatical Enhancement Award, Skidmore College, 2019-2020.

Faculty Student Summer Research Fellowship, “Social Economy in Post-Socialist China: The Case of ‘Happy Living’,” with Siqi Chen (’19), Skidmore College, June 2018.

Faculty Development Grant Award for Research Project “Peacetime Militias and Political (De-)Centralization in China, Russia, and the United States,” Skidmore College, 2016-2017. $1,800.

Civic Engagement Grant for Course Development, Skidmore College, 2016. $1,500.

Recipient of Mellon Humanities Grant for course cluster “Food: Culture, Ecology, and Society” (with Dr. Marina Llorente and Dr. Aswini Pai), St. Lawrence University, 2014-2017. $13,320.

William B. Bradbury, Jr. Faculty Award, St. Lawrence University, 2012-2013. $2,000.

Faculty Research Fellowship Award, St. Lawrence University, 2012-2013. $2,500.

Recipient of Freeman Grant for organizing the 13th Overseas Young Chinese Forum Annual Conference on Debating the China Model, St. Lawrence University, 2011. $15,000.

Recipient of Freeman Grant for a course development trip to Shenzhen, China, and a faculty-student research trip with Andrew Leiser ’11 and Dr. Grace Huang to Shanghai, Xiao’an Village in Anhui, and Huaxi Village in Jiangsu, China, St. Lawrence University, May-June 2010.

Senior Teaching Fellowship, Boston University, Fall 2007.

Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship, Boston University, 2006-2007. $10,000.

Marion S Reynolds Scholarship, Boston University, 2004-2005.

World Vision Scholarship, Hong Kong, for the 36th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology held in Beijing, 2004.

Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, Boston University, 2004.

Teaching Fellowship, Boston University, 2003-2004.

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Professor Albert Morris Scholarship, Boston University, 2002-2003.

Outstanding Senior Award, Nanjing University, 2002.

Excellent Student Leader Award, Nanjing University, 2001-2002.

Youth Medal, Nanjing University, 2000-2001.

CURRICULAR AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Bridge Experience Pedagogy Cluster, Mellon Grant, Skidmore College, Spring and Summer 2019. Visual Pedagogy Cluster, Project VIS, Skidmore College, Summer 2018. “Incorporating Doc Storytelling Skills into your Courses,” Skidmore College, May 17, 2018. “TRANSitioning Your Course: Supporting Transgender Students,” Skidmore College, April 23, 2018. IGR Faculty/Staff Workshop, Skidmore College, January 17-18, 2017. “Teaching for Inclusive Excellence” workshop, Skidmore College, May 23-25, 2016. IGR Faculty/Staff Workshop, Skidmore College, May 16-17, 2016. The Associated Colleges Teaching Effectiveness Conference, “Effective Teaching: Engaging a Variety of Learners,” SUNY Potsdam, Oct. 24, 2015. Winter Institute, “Building inclusive classroom practice: Who is in your classroom and why does it matter?” St. Lawrence University, January 2014. AAC&U Conference on “Modeling Equity, Engaging Difference: New Frameworks for Diversity & Learning,” Oct. 18-20, 2012, Baltimore. May College (pedagogical workshops), St. Lawrence University, May 2012. The 7th Associated Colleges Teaching Effectiveness Conference, “Developing Critical Thinking,” SUNY Potsdam, Nov. 12, 2011.

The 6th Associated Colleges Teaching Effectiveness Conference, “Effective Teaching: Moving Away from a Teacher-Centered Paradigm,” St. Lawrence University, Nov. 6, 2010.

May College (pedagogical workshops), St. Lawrence University, May 2010.

The 5th Associated Colleges Teaching Effectiveness Conference, “Teaching Digital Natives,” Clarkson University, Nov. 7, 2009.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE Memberships: American Sociological Association

8/11 Economic Sociology Section Development Sociology Section Eastern Sociological Society Association for Asian Studies The Overseas Young Chinese Forum

Ad Hoc Article and Book Proposal/Manuscript Reviewer for (in alphabetic order): ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts China: An International Journal Comparative Studies in Society and History International Critical Thought Journal of Asian and African Studies Poetics Qualitative Sociology Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes South African Review of Sociology Theory, Culture & Society Theory and Society Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Cambridge University Press Palgrave-Macmillan Polity Westview

Skidmore College and Departmental Service: Member of the Asian Studies Steering Committee, Spring 2017- Elected Member, Curriculum Committee, 2016-2019 (Chair, 2017-2018) Inaugural Teaching Support Network Fellow/Peer-Observer (a developmental peer observation/mentoring/pedagogical support program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), Spring 2019 Member, The General Curriculum Language Study Implementation Subcommittee, 2018-2019 Organizer, Sociology Study Abroad Forum, Spring 2018 Mentor invited by Keara Sternberg (’18), 1st Annual Stoles and Cords Recognition Ceremony, Office of Student Diversity Programs, 04/23/2018 Panelist, “Women’s Leadership Discussion,” The Office of Leadership Activities, 04/13/2018 Panelist, “Enhancing the College Environment: A Conversation with Skidmore Staff and Faculty,” ENVISIONING LIBERAT.I.O.N. Conference, 04/07/2018

9/11 Panelist, Schwarzman Scholarship Mock Interview for Olga Kanyansi (’18), 10/27/2017 Search Committee Member, tenure-track position in East Asian Buddhism, 2016-2017 Faculty Facilitator of the “I Speak What I Like: Many Minds One Mission” Dialogue, organized by the Office of Student Diversity Program and the Student Government Association VP for Inclusion and Outreach, 9/29/2016

St. Lawrence University and Departmental Service: Asian Studies Program, 2009-2015. Academic Affairs Committee, Fall 2015. Committee on International and Intercultural Studies, Fall 2011-Spring 2015. Coordinator for the Sociology Off-Campus Study Accountability requirement, 2011-2014. The Advisory Board and New York Six Outreach Committee, Mellon Humanities Grant, 2014-2015. Search Committee Member, tenure-track position in environmental sociology, Department of Sociology, Fall 2014. Selection Committee Member, Japan Kansai Gaidai Program, Fall 2014, Spring 2014. Search Committee Member, tenure-track position in technology and social change, Department of Sociology, Spring 2014. Faculty Advisor, the Asian Students Intercultural Organization (A.S.I.A.), 2013-2014. Selection Committee Member, CIEE Shanghai Program, Fall 2012. Search Committees Member, Director and Assistant Director of Off-Campus Programs, Summer 2012. Search Committee Member, Director of Asia Programs, Spring 2012. Committee on Gender Equity and Sexuality, 2010-2011. Chair of the Organizing Committee, the 13th Overseas Young Chinese Forum Annual Conference “Debating the China Model” held at St. Lawrence University, May 13-15, 2011. Member of the Peer Review of Teaching Committee for the mid-probationary reviews, Department of Sociology, Spring 2011. Member of Teagle Grant Learning Community B (on diversity teaching and learning), 2009-2010.

Other External Professional Service: 2005-present, Associate Editor of Perspectives: China and the World, journal of the Overseas Young Chinese Forum (http://www.oycf.org). 2017-, Global Ambassadors - China, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). 2017, 2016, and 2013, Member of the Development Sociology Section Awards Committee of the ASA. 2012, Program Committee for the 2012 ASA Development Sociology Conference at the University of

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