Professor Kelly H. Chong, Ph.D.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Sociology

Professor

Chairperson

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago

kchong@ku.edu

Primary office:

785-864-9415

Fraser Hall
Room 748

University of Kansas

Sociology, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd

Lawrence, KS 66045-7556

Bio
Academics
Publications

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.

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All Publications

Chong, K. H. (in press). Love Across Borders: Asian Americans and the Politics of Intermarriage and Family-Making.

Chong, K. H. (in press). "Theorizing Women's Consent: Familism, Motherhood, and Middle-Class Feminine Subjectivity in Contemporary South Korea.". In . (Ed.), Psychology of Patriarchy.

Chong, K. (in press). [Review of the book The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America, Rebecca Y. Kim].

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. (2015). [Review of the book Getting the Holy Ghost: Urban Ethnography in a Brooklyn Pentecostal Tongue-Speaking Church, by Peter Marina]. Contemporary Sociology

Chong, K. H. (2015). [Review of Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea, by Nicholas Harkness]. Journal for Asian American Studies

Chong, K. H. (2014). [Review of Asian Religions in British Columbia, edited by Larry Devries, et al]. Pacific Affairs, 87(1), 124-126.

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., Konieczny, E., & Lybargar, L. (Eds.). (2012). Comparing Religions: Theory and Empirical Analysis. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 51 (3), 397-605.

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. (2011). [Review of A Faith of Our Own: Second-Generation Spirituality in Korean American Churches, Sharon Kim]. Contemporary Sociology, 40 (4), 462-463.

Chong, K. H. (2010). [Review of Born Again: Evangelicalism in Korea, Timothy Lee]. The Journal of Asian Studies, 69 (4), 1264-1266.

Chong, K. H. (2009). [Review of Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life, Elaine Howard Ecklund]. Journal of Religion, 89 (4), 631-632.

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). In Search of Healing: Evangelical Conversion of Women in South Korea. In R. E. Buswell & T. S. Lee (Eds.), Christianity in Korea (pp. 351-370). Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.

Chong, K. H. (2006). Negotiating Patriarchy: South Korean Evangelical Women and the Politics of Gender. Gender & Society, 20 (6), 697-724.

Chong, K. H. (2005). [Review of Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries, edited by Tony Carnes and Fenggang Yang]. American Journal of Sociology, 110 (36), 1831-1834.

Chong, K. H. (2005). [Review of God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York’s Evolving Immigrant Community, Kenneth J. Guest]. Journal of Religion, 85 (1), 189-190.

Chong, K. H. (2003). [Review of Pentecostalism: The World and Their Parish, David Martin]. Journal of Religion, 83 (1), 173-174.

Chong, K. H. (2001). [Review of Korean Americans and their Religions: Pilgrims and Missionaries from a Different Shore, edited by Ho-Youn Kwon, Kwang Chung Kim, R. Stephen Warner]. American Journal of Sociology, 107 (3), 857-859.

Chong, K. H. (1999). [Review of Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States, Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III]. American Journal of Sociology, 104 (5), 1553-1556.