Contributors
- Contributors
Jessica Cobb holds a PhD in sociology from University of California, Berkeley, and is currently a JD candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. She specializes in the sociology of education.
Dannah Dennis holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Virginia and is currently a Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society at New York University Shanghai. Her work examines changing narratives of national identity in the midst of Nepal's constitutional transition to secularism and federalism.
Sujin Eom holds a PhD in architecture from the University California, Berkeley. Her research interests lie at the intersection of migration and architecture.
Barbara Grossman-Thompson is an assistant professor in the Department of International Studies at California State University, Long Beach. Her research focuses on gender and labor in contemporary Nepal.
Kimberly Kay Hoang is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work (2015). [End Page 843]
Minwoo Jung is a PhD candidate of sociology at the University of Southern California. His research centers on the institutionalization of sexual politics in East and Southeast Asia and its implications for state restructuring and social inequality. His work has been published in Korean Journal of Sociology.
Hun Kim is an assistant professor of geography at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on forms of transnational capital and expertise that produce space in Southeast Asian cities.
Ya-Wen Lei is an assistant professor of sociology at Harvard University. She is the author of The Contentious Public Sphere in China: Law, Media, and the Dilemma of Authoritarian Rule (forthcoming 2017).
Sylvia Nam is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include market formations in transitioning cities.
Seunghan Paek is a researcher in the Institute of Humanities at Yonsei University, South Korea. One of his recent publications is "Asian City as Affective Space: Commercial Signs and Mood in the Paintings of Manoël Pillard" (2016).
Tri Phuong is a PhD candidate at Yale University's Department of Anthropology. His research focuses on new media technologies, urban youth cultures, and digital communities in Vietnam.
Elena Shih is an assistant professor of American studies and ethnic studies at Brown University. She serves on the editorial board for the Anti-Trafficking Review, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Global Alliance against the Traffic in Women, and the Beyond Trafficking and Slavery editorial initiative through openDemocracy. [End Page 844]
