CURRICULUM VITAE

KWAI HANG NG

University of California, San Diego Email: kwng@ucsd.edu

Department of Sociology Office Tel: (858) 534-2729

9500 Gilman Drive Fax: (858) 534-4753

San Diego, CA 92093-0533

Education

Ph.D., 2004

Department of Sociology, University of Chicago

Master of Arts, 1999

Department of Sociology, University of Chicago

Bachelor of Social Sciences (Hon.), 1990

Department of Journalism and Communication

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Employment

2004 - Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC-San Diego

Research Interests

Primary

Sociology of Law, Linguistic Practice, Sociology of Religion

Secondary

Sociology of Culture, Social Theory

Honors & Awards

Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Sociology of Religion, American Sociological Association, 2003.

AT&T Leadership Award (Asia/Pacific) 1996.

Cheng Ming Award, New Asia College, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990.

Fellowships & Grants

Harper Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2003.

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, 2002.

International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2001.

Publications

Ng, Kwai Hang. 2002. “Seeking the Christian Tutelage: Agency and Culture in Chinese Immigrants’ Conversion to Protestantism.” Sociology of Religion 63(2): 195-214.

Parish, William L., Edward O. Laumann, Myron S. Cohen, Suiming Pan, Heyi Zheng, Irving Hoffman, Tianfu Wang, Kwai Hang Ng. 2003. “Population-Based Study of Chlamydial Infection in China: A Hidden Epidemic.” JAMA 289(10): 1265-1273.

Work in Progress

Ng, Kwai Hang. “Understanding the Constitutive Role of Language in Law.”

Ng, Kwai Hang. “Framing Courtroom Dialogues in Hong Kong’s Bilingual Common Law System.”

Presentations

“In Another Language: Decontextualization and Re-contextualization in Hong Kong’s Bilingual Common Law System.” Session on Sociolinguistics, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 2003.

“Marshalling the Legal Boundaries – Court Interpreters and the Legal Register in Post-Colonial Hong Kong.” Panel Session on New Perspectives on Courts and Constitutionalism in Asia, Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 7, 2003.

“Trends in Chinese Sexual Behaviors and Consequences for Women.” With Tianfu Wang, William Parish, Edward Laumann. Session on Gender and Sexuality, Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2, 2003.

“Revitalization of the Sexual Realm in China: New Possibilities or Challenges?” With Edward Laumann and William Parish. Session on Asia and Asian America, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Anaheim, California, August 19, 2001.

“Becoming Christian: The Role of Agency and Culture in Chinese Immigrants’ Conversion to Christianity.” Session on Sociology of Religion, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Washington, D.C., August 15, 2000.

“Chinese Christian, Christian Chinese? Ethnicity and Religion: An Ethnographic Study of a Chinese Protestant Church,” Chicago Conference on Sociological Ethnography. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, February 27, 1999.

Invited Talk

“Legal Bilingualism in Hong Kong – A Sociological View.” Rights Talk at the Center for Comparative and Public Law, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, September 23, 2002.

Professional Activities and Affiliations

Member American Sociological Association, Law and Society Association, Association for the Sociology of Religion,

American Anthropological Association

Reviewer American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociology of Religion

Language Proficiency

Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin)

December, 2004