Professor Kelly H. Chong, Ph.D.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - SociologyRoom 748
Gender, religion, race and ethnicity, and East Asian studies; politics of gender and conversion in contemporary South Korean evangelicalism
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago
M.I.A., International Affairs, Columbia University
M.A., East Asian Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana
B.A., English, Cornell University
Teaching Interests
- Gender
- Race and Ethnicity
- Immigration
- Religion
- Asian American Studies
- Asian Studies
Research Interests
- Sociology of Gender
- Sociology of Religion
- Race and Ethnicity
- East Asian Studies
- Asian American Studies
- International Migration
Selected Publications
Chong, K. H. (2017). 'Asianness Under Construction:' The Contours and Negotiation of Pan-Ethnic Identity/Culture among Inter-Ethnically Married Asian Americans. Sociological Perspectives, 60(1), 52-76.
Chong, K. H. (2015). Feminine Habitus: Rhetoric and Rituals of Conversion and Commitment among Contemporary South Korean Women. In S. Coleman & R. Hackett (Eds.), The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism. NY: NYU Press.
Chong, K. H. (2013). The Relevance of Race: Children and Shifting Racial/Ethnic Consciousness Among Interracially Married Asian Americans. Journal for Asian American Studies, 16 (2), 189-221.
Chong, K. H. (2012). Revisiting Religious Power: Korean Evangelical Church as a Disciplinary Institution. In C. Bender, W. Cadge, P. Levitt, & D. Smilde (Eds.), Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion. NY: Oxford University Press.
Konieczny, E. Lybargar, L. & Chong, K. H. (2012). Theory as a Tool in the Social Scientific Study of Religion and Martin Riesebrodt’s The Promise of Salvation. Journal for the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 51 (3), 397-411.
Chong, K. H. (2011). Healing and Redomestication: The Reconstitution of the Feminine Self in South Korean Cell Group Rituals. In M. Lindhardt (Ed.), Ritual Practice in Charismatic Christianity. New York: Berghahn Books.
Chong, K. H. (2008). Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy in South Korea, Harvard University Press.
Chong, K. H. (2008). Coping with Conflict, Confronting Resistance: Emotions and Identity Management during Fieldwork in a South Korean Evangelical Community. Qualitative Sociology, 31(4), 369-390.
Chong, K. H. (2006). Negotiating Patriarchy: South Korean Evangelical Women and the Politics of Gender. Gender & Society, 20 (6), 697-724.
Chong, K. H., & Riesebrodt, M. (1999). Fundamentalism and Patriarchal Gender Politics. Journal of Women’s History, 10 (4), 55-77.
Chong, K. H. (1998). What it Means to be Christian: The Role of Religion in the Construction of Ethnic Identity and Boundary Among Second-Generation Korean-Americans. Sociology of Religion, 59 (3), 259-286.