Updated 08/2020 KIMBERLY KAY HOANG, PH.D. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Department of Sociology Global Studies Program Social Science Research Building 413 Gates Blake 116 1126 E. 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637 5845 S. Ellis Ave. Chicago, IL 60637 773-834-0579 773-834-7585 Email: [email protected] ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2018— Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and the College, University of Chicago Director of Global Studies (2019—) Associate Editor, American Journal of Sociology (2017-2020) Faculty Boards and Affiliations: Law, Letters, and Society Program, Faculty Board (2019-2022) Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, Faculty Board (2016-2022) Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Faculty Board (2017-2020) Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Center for International Relations Committee on Southern Asian Studies Faculty Sponsor: Ethnography Incubator (2017—) Money, Markets, and Governance Workshop (2015—) Social Theory and Evidence Workshop (2017-2018) 2015-2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and the College, University of Chicago 2013-2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Boston College. 2011-2013 Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities at the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Kinder Institute for Urban Research EDUCATION Ph.D. Sociology with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality University of California Berkeley, 2006 – 2011 Committee: Raka Ray (Chair), Barrie Thorne, Irene Bloemraad, Peter Zinoman Dissertation Title: New Economies of Sex and Intimacy in Vietnam * Winner of the 2012 American Sociological Association Best Dissertation Award M.A. Sociology, Stanford University, 2005-2006 1 B.A. Communication & Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001-2005, Summa Cum Laude * Winner of the Luis Leal Award for Undergraduate Research in the Social Sciences BOOKS N.D. Playing in the Gray: Offshoring and Foreign Investments in Frontier Markets (Full Manuscript Currently Under Review) 2015. Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work, Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Book Awards • Association for Asian Studies, Southeast Asia Council, Harry J. Benda Book Prize, 2017. • SSSP Global Division Distinguished Book Award, 2016. • American Sociological Association (ASA) Global & Transnational Sociology Best Scholarly Book Award, 2016. • ASA Sexualities Section Distinguished Book Award, 2016. • ASA Race, Class & Gender Distinguished Book Award Co-winner, 2016. • ASA Sex & Gender Section Distinguished Book Award Co-winner, 2016. • National Women Studies Association Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, 2015. Reprinted Sections • 2016. “Economies of Desire: Speculative Capital and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work,” Media Asia 43(3-4) 145-150. Author Meets Critic • University of Chicago Urban Readers Series, 2017. • Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 2016. • American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2016. Reviews • Socio-Economic Review (review symposium) • Journal of International Women Studies, Sojourn, Gender & Society, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Public Books, Cross-Currents, Anthropology Review Database, Signs: Journal of Women Culture and Society. Translations • China, Taiwan Edited Books and Special Issues 2017. De-centering ‘Globalized’ Asia, with Ya-Wen Lei (Harvard University) and Jessica Cobb (UCLA). Houston, TX: positions: asia critique. *Lead Editor 2 2014. Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Rethinking the Problem, Envisioning New Solutions, with Rhacel Parreñas, New York: International Debate Education Association (Commissioned by Open Society). * Lead Editor JOURNAL ARTICLES 2020. “Engendering Global Capital: How Homoerotic Triangles Facilitate Foreign Investments into Risky Markets” Gender & Society 34(4) 547-572. [Lead Article] 2018. “Risky Investments: How Local and Foreign Investors Finesse Corruption-Rife Emerging Markets” American Sociological Review 84(4) 657-685. * Honorable Mention ASA Asia and Asian American Section Article Award, 2019. 2018. “Political Economy of Embodiment: Capitalizing on Globally Staged Bodies in Nigerian Beauty Pageants and Vietnamese Sex Work” Sociological Perspectives 61(6) 953-972 [Equal co-author with Oluwakemi Balogun]. * Honorable Mention ASA Body and Embodiment Section Article Award, 2019. 2017. “Guest Editors Introduction: Inter-Asian Capital Circulations, Cultural Transformations, and Methodological Positions,” a special issue titled De-centering ‘Globalized Asia, edited by Kimberly Kay Hoang, Ya-Wen Lei, and Jessica Cobb positions: asia critique: 25(4) 633-644. [*First author with Jessica Cobb (UCLA) and Ya-Wen Lei (Harvard)] 2017. "Are Public Sociology and Scholar-Activism Really at Odds?" Contexts: after charlottesville: a contexts symposium 2016. “When access is a challenge accepted,” Contexts: viewpoints 15(2):18-19. 2016. “Perverse Humanitarianism and the Business of Rescue: What’s Wrong with NGOs and What’s Right with the Johns?” a special issue titled Perverse Politics edited by Ann Orloff, Raka Ray, and Evern Savci in Political Power and Social Theory 30(1): 19-43. 2015. “Protagonist-Driven Urban Ethnography,” City and Community 14(4): 348-351. [*Equal coauthor with Jessica Cobb (UCLA)] 2015. “Nailing Race and Labor Relations: Vietnamese Nail Salons in Majority-Minority Neighborhoods,” Journal of Asian American Studies 18(2): 113-140. [Lead Article] * Reprint: 2016 in Beyond Black and White: A Reader on Contemporary Race Relations, edited by Zulema Valdez. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 2014. “Flirting with Capital: Negotiating Perceptions of Pan-Asian Ascendency and Western Decline in Global Sex Work,” Social Problems 64(4): 507-529. [Lead Article] * ASA Section on Global & Transnational Sociology Best Article Award, 2016. * ASA Section on Asia & Asian America Best Article Award Honorable Mention, 2016. * ASA Section on Race, Gender, and Class Distinguished Contribution to Article Award, 2015. 3 2014. “Competing Technologies of Embodiment: Pan-Asian Modernity and Third World Dependency in Vietnam’s Contemporary Sex Industry,” Gender & Society 28(4) 513-536. [Lead Article] * ASA Section Sociology of Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, 2015. * ASA Section on Sociology of Sex & Gender Best Article Award, 2015. * ASA Section on Asia and Asian America Best Article Award, 2014. 2014. “Vietnam Rising Dragon: Contesting Dominant Western Masculinities in Vietnam’s Global Sex Industry,” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 27(2): 259-271. 2013. “Transnational Gender Vertigo,” Contexts 12(2): 22-26. [Feature Article] * Reprinted in Gender, Sexuality, and Intimacy: A Contexts Reader, edited by Jodi O’Brien and Arlene Stein. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications 2017. * Nominee for 2014 Claude Award for Best Feature Article International Focus, 2014. * Featured on BBC’s Thinking Aloud with Laurie Taylor, October 30, 2013. * Reprinted in AsiaLIFE Magazine, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, September 2013. * Featured in The Global Viet, Houston: University of Houston C.T. Bauer College of Business, 2013. 2011. “She’s Not a Low-Class Dirty Girl!’: Sex Work in Ho Chi Minh City,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 40(4): 367-396. [Lead Article] * Translated into German and Reprinted in, Prostitution: A Companion for Mankind, 2015. * ASA Sociology of Sexualities Graduate Student Paper Award, 2011. * Sociologists for Women in Society, Cheryl Allyn Miller Award, 2011. * Honorable Mention ASA Asia and Asian American Section Student Paper Award, 2011. * Vietnam Studies Group Best Graduate Student Paper Prize, 2010. 2010. “Economies of Emotion, Familiarity, Fantasy, and Desire: Emotional Labor in Ho Chi Minh City’s Sex Industry,” Sexualities 13(2): 255-272. * Reprint: 2010 in Intimate Labors, edited by Eileen Boris and Rhacel Parrenas. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. • Best Graduate Student Paper, Southeast Asian Program, Cornell University, 2008. BOOK CHAPTERS 2018 “Gendering Carnal Ethnography,” Other, Please Specify:_______; Queer Methods in Sociology, edited by D’Lane Compton, Tey Meadow, and Kristen Schilt, pp. 230-248. Oakland: University of California Press. 2017 “Gendering Sexuality,” The Berkeley Sociology of Gender Reader, edited by Abigail Andrews, Jennifer Carlson, Raka Ray, pp. 75-94. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press. (equal author with Oluwakemi Balogun) 4 2014. “Introduction,” first author with Rhacel Parreñas, Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Rethinking the Problem, Envisioning New Solutions, edited by Kimberly Kay Hoang and Rhacel Parreñas, New York: International Debate Education Association (Commissioned by Open Society) 2013. “Refashioning Global Bodies: Embodiment in Nigerian Beauty Pageants and the Vietnamese Sex Industry,” equal author with Oluwakemi Balogun, Global Beauty, Local Bodies edited by Erynn Masi de Casanova and Afshan Jafar, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [Lead Chapter] 2013. “Performing Third World Poverty: Racialized Femininities in Sex Work,” The Kaleidoscope of Gender, edited by Joan Spade and Catherine Valentine, pp. 225- 232. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc 4th Edition. 2013. “Vietnamese Immigration and Adaptation in the United States since 1975,” Immigrants in American History: Arrival Adaptation, and Integration, edited by Elliot Barkan, pp. 1365-1374. Santa Barbara: ABC- CLIO. REVIEW ESSAYS 2014. Cosmopolitan Sex Workers: Women and Migration in a Global City, by