Kwai Ng, Associate Professor

Ph.D. - University of Chicago, 2004

Areas of Specialization: Sociology of Law, Sociology of Language, Social Theory, Religion

Email Address: kwng@ucsd.edu
Phone number: 858-534-2729
Office location: 491 Social Science Building

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Biography:

Kwai Ng received his B.S. in journalism from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, his M.A.and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. His research interests are in sociology of law, theories of linguistic practice and sociology of religion. He has conducted field research on Chinese ethnic churches in the United States and the bilingual courtrooms in Hong Kong. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the relationship between language and law based on his ethnographic study of Hong Kong's legal bilingualism.

Curriculum Vitae

Classes to be taught in 2011/12:

Fall 2011

SOCI 118E - Sociology of Language

SOCG 253 - Research Practicum II

Winter 2012

SOCG 201B - Classical Sociological Theory II

 

Publications:

*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).

*Ng, Kwai Hang. 2002. "Seeking the Christian Tutelage: Agency and Culture in Chinese Immigrants' Conversion to Protestantism." Sociology of Religion 63(2).