Ling Han
Department of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive #0533
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533
(858)952-3200
[email protected]
[email protected]
EDUCATION
2015 (exp.) Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California San Diego
Dissertation: Contested Social Work: The Field of Community Governance in
Urban China
Committee: Richard Madsen (Chair), Richard Biernacki, Kwai Ng, Christena
Turner, Paul Pickowicz (History), Nancy Postero (Anthropology)
Special Fields: Sociology of Culture and Globalization
2006
M.A. in China Studies and Sociology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
2001
B.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of California, Berkeley
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Civic Engagement, Nonprofit Organizations, Culture, Globalization and Transnationalism,
Social Welfare, Social Movements, Gender, Community Governance, Qualitative Methods,
Chinese Society
PUBLICATIONS
Lee, Chengpang and Ling Han. (Forthcoming). “Faith-Based Organization and Transnational
Voluntarism in China: A Case Study of the Malaysia Airline MH370 Incident.”
VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.
Lee, Chengpang and Ling Han. (Forthcoming). “Mother and Moral Activist: Two Models of
Woman’s Social Engagement in Contemporary Taiwanese Buddhism.” Nova Religio: The
Journal of Alternative and Emerging Religions.
Lee, Chengpang and Ling Han. (Forthcoming). “Recycling Bodhisattva: The Tzu-Chi
Movement’s Response to Global Climate Change.” Social Compass.
Wang, Xiaofang, Jessie L. Norris, Yingjie Liu, Sten Vermund, Han-Zhu Qian, Ling Han, Ning
Wang. 2012. “Risk Behaviors for Reproductive Tract Infection in Women who Have Sex
with Women in Beijing, China.” PLOS One 7 (7): 1-6.
WORK IN PROGRESS
“The Power of Association and Service-Provision NGOs: Explaining the Importance of Social
Work Agency in Urban China” Revise and Resubmit at VOLUNTAS: International Journal
of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.
“Bounded Free Space: A Case Study of the Naked Against Domestic Violence Online Activism
in China.” In Preparation for journal submission.
“The Field of Social Work: Models of Urban Governance in China.”
“The Internet Usage of Women’s Organizations in China.”
“Service Provision and the Meaning of Citizenship”
MEDIA COVERAGE
“Social Work as a Social Wedge” research covered by Stanford Social Innovation Review
(Fall/2014). http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/social_work_as_a_social_wedge
Publications and Edited Works in Chinese
Han, Ling. 2011. “Life Adrift in Fieldwork” Contemporary China Newsletter 16: 22-25.
Han, Ling. 2006. “Gender as a Development Strategy—The Emergent Chinese Women’s
Organizing Movement.” Contemporary China Newsletter 7: 41-44.
Lin, Wei-hung and Hsiao-chin Hsieh eds. 2005 Gender, Culture & Society: Women’s Studies in
Taiwan. Seoul: Ewha Womans University Press. (Served as Assistant Editor)
Han, Ling. 2004. “China Impressionistic Montage.” Contemporary China Newsletter No. 3
(November).
Han, Ling. 2004. “Notes on Professor Yun-han Chu’s Speech—Social Research and China
Studies.” Contemporary China Newsletter. No. 2 (March).
Han, Ling. ed. 2001. Taiwan Women’s Studies Abstract 1991-1995. Women’s Research
Program, Population and Gender Studies Program. Taipei: National Taiwan University.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2011
Young Scholar Award, China Times Cultural Foundation, New York. ($5000)
2010
Best Paper Award, The 16th Annual Conference of North American Taiwan
Studies Association, 2010. Paper Title: Organizing National Belonging: The
Emergence of Taiwanese-American Identity in a North American Community
Organization. University of California, Berkeley. ($300)
2008
First Place, Paola Sandri Prize of Innovative and Original Research Work, China,
Europe and the World Postgraduate Research Summer School, University of
Bristol. (£500)
ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2014-2015
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Dissertation
Fellowship. ($15,000)
2013
Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Sociology, UC-San Diego. ($5885)
2012-2014
Taiwanese Ministry of Education Study Abroad Scholarship. ($32,000)
2011
Advanced Research Support Grant, Graduate Program Committee, Department of
Sociology, UC-San Diego. ($2000)
2010-2011
Pacific Rim Research Program Advanced Graduate Research Fellowship, Pacific
Rim Research Program, University of California. ($19,459)
2010
Residential Dissertation Workshop, "Transnationalism, Feminism, Justice"
Dissertation Workshop organized by the Institute for Advanced Feminist
Research at UC Santa Cruz and the UC Transnationalizing Justice Multicampus
Research Group. (Fully-funded)
2010
Dean of Social Sciences Travel Fund, UC-San Diego. ($500)
2009
Pacific Rim Research Program Mini-grant, Pacific Rim Research Program,
University of California. ($3000)
2008-2010
Travel Grant, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Los Angeles. ($600)
2008-2011
Travel Grant, Department of Sociology, UC-San Diego. ($1200)
2007-2008
Graduate Study Fellowship, Department of Sociology, UC-San Diego.
PANEL ORGANIZED
2015 “Old Machine, New Program? The Chinese State, Policy Reforms and Organizational
Innovations.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2015 “Strangers in the Community: Social Workers, Old Street Bureaucracies, and the Reorganization of Community Life in Urban China.” Association for Asian Studies Annual
Conference. Chicago, Illinois.
2014
“Contested Social Work: Service Provision NGOs as Agents of Change in Urban China.”
Presented at the Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association. San
Francisco, California.
2014
“Contested Social Work: Service-Provision NGOs and Community Change in Urban
China.” Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society Junior Scholars Workshop.
Stanford University.
2014
“Contested Social Work: Service Provision NGOs as Agents of Change in Urban China.”
Fudan-UC Young Scholars’ Workshop on China. University of California, San Diego.
2013
“Constructing the Categories of ‘Need’: Women, Power, and the State Welfare Regimes
in China.” Panel on Gender and Power: Theorization and Empirical Studies. Presented at
the Midwest Sociological Society. Chicago, Illinois.
2011
“Social Work as an Identity: The Clash of Gender-based NGOs and Professional Social
Work in China, 1995-2011.” Presented at the Social Sciences History Association.
Boston, Massachusetts.
2011
“The Silhouette of Women’s Rights in China: The CEDAW NGO Shadow Report on
‘Floating Women’” Presented at the Global and Transnational Sociology Regular
Section, American Sociological Association. Las Vegas, Nevada.
2010
“Organizing National Belonging: The Emergence of Taiwanese-American Identity in a
North American Community Organization.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
North American Taiwan Studies Association. University of California, Berkeley.
2009
“Globalizing Gender Repertories: Chinese Feminist Activism, State, and Globalizing
Age.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego.
2008
“Gender Identity in Action: Chinese Female Activists’ Gender Repertoires in a
Globalizing Context.” China, Europe and the World Postgraduate Research Summer
School, University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
2008
“Gender Identity in Action: Chinese Female Activists’ Gender Repertoires in a
Globalizing Context.” Thinking Gender Conference. Center for the Study of Women,
University of California, Los Angeles.
2008
“Imagined Nationhood: Nation-State Building and the Public Attitudes toward Foreign
Spouses in Contemporary Taiwan.” With Cheng-pang Lee, presented at North American
Taiwan Studies Association. University of Washington, Seattle.
2002
“A Gender Issue in Chinese Society under the Interaction of Globalization and
Localization: Mainland Chinese Brides in Taipei.” With Jia-ling Han, presented at the
20th Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies on The Effects of
Globalization in Taiwan and the Third World, National Taiwan University.
INVITED TALKS
2013 “‘Naked Against Domestic Violence’: Mobilization and New Media of a Feminist Weibo
Activism in China.” Presented at East Asia Workshop: Politics, Economy and Society,
The University of Chicago.
2011
“Helping People Help Themselves: Discourses on Social Work in China 1949-2011.”
Presented at East Asia Workshop: Politics, Economy and Society, The University of
Chicago.
2010
“Practicing Women’s Human Rights: The Implementation of Women’s Rights Advocacy
Programs in China” Invited Presentation, China Salon, Sociology Department, UC-San
Diego.
DISCUSSANTS
2012
“Problematizing Taiwan Studies: Why Not Taiwan?” The 18th Annual Conference of
the North American Taiwan Studies Association. Indiana University, Bloomington.
2009
“English Mania in Taiwan: Analyzing a Global Phenomenon through Mass Media
Learning Materials.” The 15th Annual Conference of the North American Taiwan
Studies Association, University of Texas, Austin.
TEACHING EXPRIENCES
The Central Universities for Nationalities, Beijing, China
Guest Lecturer
Education Research Methods: The Practice of Social Research (Spring 2011)
University of California, San Diego
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Sociology 20: Social Change (Spring 2009)
Sociology 40: Sociology of Health Care Issues (Spring 2010)
Sociology 60: Introduction to Social Research (Winter 2009)
Sociology 100: Classical Social Theory (Winter 2010)
CHIN 10A: First Year Chinese, Chinese Studies (Fall 2008, Fall 2009)
Readership
Sociology 112: Social Psychology (Winter 2008)
Sociology 118: Sociology of Gender, Sociology Department (Fall 2006)
Sociology 129: Family, Sociology Department (Spring 2007)
Sociology 141: Crime and Society (Fall 2007)
Sociology 162: Religions and Popular Culture in East Asia (Winter 2007)
National Taiwan University
Teaching Assistant
Gender Relations (2001-2003)
Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies (2001-2003)
RESESARCH AND OTHER RELATED WORK EXPERIENCES
2004-2006
RA for Professor Yun Fan, National Taiwan University
Conducted data collection and coded archival data of the Women of China
magazine and women’s organizations in China
2003-2006
RA for Professor Jia-ling Han, Beijing Academy of Social Sciences
Conducted interviews for the Projects of Mainland Chinese Brides in Taiwan and
Female Cross Border Migration in China
2001-2003
Executive Secretary and Research Fellow at the Women’s Research Program,
National Taiwan University
PROFESIONAL SERVICES
2013-
UCSD Local Representative, The North American Taiwan Studies Association
2008-10 Program Convener, The North American Taiwan Studies Association
2009
Field Paper Workshop Presenter, Department of Sociology, UC-San Diego
2008
Planning Committee, Sociology Graduate Student Conference, UC-San Diego
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Sociological Association
North American Taiwan Studies Association
Midwest Sociological Society
Social Science History Association
Pacific Sociological Association
Sociologist for Women in Society
LANGUAGES
English, Chinese (native fluency), Taiwanese (native fluency), Latin (2 years)
REFERENCES
Richard Madsen
Distinguished Professor of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive #0533
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533
(858) 822-2982
[email protected]
Kwai Ng
Associate Professor of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive #0533
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533
(858)534-2729
[email protected]
Richard Biernacki
Professor of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive #0533
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533
(858)534-5388
[email protected]
Christena Turner
Associate Professor of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive #0533
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533
(858)534-0490
[email protected]