Asia

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Dennis McNamara, Ph.D.

Dennis McNamara, S.J. is the Park Professor of Sociology and Korean Studies at Georgetown University. He also serves as Special Assistant to the University President for China Affairs. He joined Georgetown University after receiving his PhD from Harvard University, and has gone on to serve as Chair of the Department, as Chair of University Rank and Tenure, as well as creator and chair of the biannual Georgetown Conference on Korean Society, and coordinator of the university’s exchange with China’s Central Party School in Beijing from 2007. He serves as a member of the Council of Foreign Relations in New York, and chairs the Japan/Korea Seminar at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department. He is active in the International Studies Association and the International Sociological Association, where he has chaired the Economic Sociology Committee, as well as in the Society for the Study of Socio-Economics (SASE).

Additional Publications:
“Reincorporation and the American State in South Korea: the Textile Industry in the 1950s“
“New Places but Old Spaces –Knowledge Hierarchies among Asian SMEs Abroad”

Becky Y Hsu, Ph.D.

Becky Yang Hsu studies the social relationships that people understand as natural and ordinary, with a particular interest in moral understandings, social practices, and religion. This interest has been shaped by experiences as an immigrant in America and seeing different sides of what is taken for granted. It is also the perspective that underpins Hsu’s work as a sociologist studying happiness and mourning in China.

Additional Publications:
“Estimating the Religious Composition of All Nations: An Empirical Assessment of World Christian Database.” (Co-Author with Amy Reynolds, Conrad Hackett, and James Gibbon)
“Maintaining, relinquishing, and adapting bonds in bereavement: A qualitative study of grave sweeping in China.” (Co-Author with Roman Palitsky)