Economic Sociology
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”
Gözde Güran, Ph.D.
Professor Güran is a sociologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University. Previously, she was an academy scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies in 2020-2021, and an assistant professor at the London School of Economics in 2021-2022. Güran received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 2020.
Volume 37, No 4: “Rating Prestige: Status-Seeking and Creditworthiness on the
Global Stage,” p.1131–1159
No 278: “Mobilizing in Exile: Syrian Associational Life in Turkey and Lebanon,” (p.20–26)
Additional Publications:
“Brokers of Order: How Money Moves in Wartime Syria“