IRENE PANG Buffett Institute for Global Studies Northwestern University 1902 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 Email:[email protected] Phone: (443) 527-5809 ACADEMIC POSITION 2017 – Postdoctoral Fellow, Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Northwestern University EDUCATION Ph.D. Sociology, Brown University, 2017 Dissertation: Becoming Citizens: Construction Workers in Beijing and Delhi Committee: Nitsan Chorev (Chair), Joel Andreas (Johns Hopkins), Patrick Heller, José Itzigsohn Preliminary Exam Areas: Social Theory (passed with distinction), Political Economy of Development and Globalization (passed with distinction) Visiting Scholar, Center for Modern Indian Studies & Center for Modern East Asian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany (Summer 2016) A.M. Sociology, Brown University, 2012 B.A. (Hons) Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, 2009 Semester Abroad: Freie-Universität Berlin / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Spring 2009) Semester Abroad: University of Ghana (Fall 2007) RESEARCH INTERESTS Political Sociology, Development, Citizenship, Labor, Ethnography, Comparative Research, China and India PUBLICATIONS 2016. “Banking is for Others: Contradictions of Microfinance in the Ghanaian Market,” Journal of World-Systems Research 22(2):335-66. * Terence K. Hopkins Graduate Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association, Political Economy of the World-System Section n.d. “The Legal Construction of Precarity: Lessons from the Construction Sector in Beijing and Delhi,” under review at Critical Sociology. WORKING PAPERS n.d. “Contingent Civil Society: Adaptive Strategies of Citizenship Contestation among Internal Migrant Construction Workers in Beijing and Delhi.” Pang Page 1 of 4 n.d. “Finding Class Out of Place: Petitions among the Migrant Middle Class in Beijing.” FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS External Sources 2017-2019 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Northwestern University 2016-2017 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (declined) 2015-2017 Doctoral Fellowship, PhD Partnership in Global Social Protections, Transnational Studies Initiative, Harvard University 2014-2015 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation 2012-2015 PhD Scholarship in Migration Studies, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius (Germany) Summer 2012 Tuition Scholarship, Summer Intensive Hindi Language Program, American Institute of Indian Studies 2008 Undergraduate Scholarship, DAAD (for semester abroad in Germany) Internal Sources 2016-2017 Interdisciplinary Opportunity Fellowship, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University 2015-2016 Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, Brown University 2014-2015 Graduate Fellowship, Brown-India Initiative, Brown University 2012-2013 Graduate Fellowship, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University Winter 2013 Graduate Research Travel Grant, Brown University Winter 2013 Office of International Affairs Travel Award, Brown University Summer 2012 Graduate Research Travel Grant, Brown University Summer 2012 Office of International Affairs Travel Award, Brown University Summer 2012 Graduate Program in Development Summer Pre-dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University 2011-2013 Graduate Program in Development Fellowship, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University Summer 2011 Office of International Affairs Travel Award, Brown University Summer 2011 Graduate Program in Development Summer Pre-dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University 2010-2011 Graduate School Fellowship, Brown University Summer 2008 William F. Clinger Award, Johns Hopkins University Summer 2008 Provost Undergraduate Research Award, Johns Hopkins University Summer 2008 Institute for Global Studies Summer Travel Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University Pang Page 2 of 4 2005-2009 Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University AWARDS 2017 Terence K. Hopkins Graduate Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association, Political Economy of the World-System Section 2012 Alden Speare, Jr. Memorial Award for Best M.A. Thesis in Sociology, Brown University 2009 James S. Coleman Award, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University INVITED TALKS 2016 “The Legal Construction of Precarity: Lessons from Construction Sites in Beijing and Delhi.” University of Toronto, Mississauga, Department of Sociology, November 2015 “Becoming Citizens: Construction Workers in Beijing and Delhi.” Institute of Chinese Studies (Delhi, India), Wednesday Seminar, August 2014 “Marketized Citizenship? The Experience of Construction Workers in Beijing.” Centre for Policy (Delhi, India), Research Lunch Seminar, December CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2017 “Precarity as a Legal Construction: Lessons from Construction Sites in Beijing and Delhi.” Invited paper presentation, Volkswagen Foundation Herrenhausen Symposium on “Workers of the World”, Hanover, June. 2016 “Precarity as a Legal Construction: Lessons from Construction Sites in Beijing and Delhi.” Paper presentation, Labor and Labor Movements Section Pre- conference, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, August. 2016 “Precarity as a Legal Construction: Lessons from Construction Sites in Beijing and Delhi.” Paper presentation, International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, Vienna, July. 2014 “Subcontracting and Precarious Labor Relations within the Construction Sector in China: Preliminary Findings from the Field.” Paper presentation, Labor Sociology Conference for Young Scholars, Tsinghua University, Beijing, May. 2012 “The Right to Exams: Migrant Parents in Beijing and the Quest for Equal Citizenship.” Paper presentation, Hong Kong Sociological Association Annual Conference, Hong Kong, December. 2012 “The Right to Exams: Migrant Parents in Beijing and the Quest for Equal Citizenship.” Paper presentation, Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, November. 2011 “Banking for Others? The Expansion of Formal Microfinance and the Persistence of Informal Finance among Market Women in Ghana.” Paper presentation, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, August. Pang Page 3 of 4 2011 “Banking for Others? The Expansion of Formal Microfinance and the Persistence of Informal Finance among Market Women in Ghana.” Paper presentation, 14th Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality, Irmgard Coninx Stiftung, Berlin, June. TEACHING Winter 2018 SOC226 Sociological Analysis (undergraduate major requirement), Department of Sociology, Northwestern University Spring 2017 DEVL1500 Methods in Development Research (undergraduate major requirement, co-taught with Duff Morton), Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University Spring 2016 SOC2050 Contemporary Social Theory (graduate requirement, co-taught with Nitsan Chorev), Department of Sociology, Brown University SERVICE AND AFFILIATIONS 2011-2013 Initiator and Co-organizer (with Derek Sheridan), Brown University Social Science Colloquia Series on China Member American Sociological Association, International Sociological Association, Social Science History Association Reviewer American Journal of Sociology LANGUAGES AND TRAINING 2010-2013 Hindi-Urdu Program, Center for Language Studies, Brown University Summer 2012 Summer Intensive Hindi Language Program (Jaipur, India), American Institute of Indian Studies English (native ability), Mandarin Chinese (fluent), Cantonese (native), Hindi (basic reading, writing, speaking), German (working knowledge) Pang Page 4 of 4 .