Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

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Leslie K. Wang

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Department of Sociology, December 2010

“Children on the Margins: The Global Politics of Orphanage Care in Contemporary China”

Dissertation Committee: Barrie Thorne (co-chair), Tom Gold (co-chair), Marion Fourcade- Gourinchas, You-Tien Hsing (Geography)

M.A. University of California, Berkeley Sociology, May 2005

B.A. University of California, San Diego, Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude, Sociology (High Honors) and Chinese Studies, June 2000

APPOINTMENTS

2013 – present University of Massachusetts Boston Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology 2012 – 13 Grand Valley State University

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology 2010 – 12 University of British Columbia

Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow Department of Sociology

TEACHING/RESEARCH INTERESTS

Gender; Family; Globalization/Transnationalism; Qualitative Methods; Asia/Asian America PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

“Outsourcing Intimacy: Producing Global Adoptability of Special Needs Children in China.” Conditional acceptance. positions: Asia Critique.

“Unequal Logics of Care: Gender, Globalization and Volunteer Work of Expatriate Wives in China.” 2013.

Gender & Society 27 (2): 538 - 560.

Assistant Professor Department of Sociology

University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd.

Boston, MA 02125-3393

Leslie.Wang@umb.edu

(617) 287-3239

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Leslie Wang. 2010. “Importing Western Childhoods into a Chinese State-Run Orphanage.” Qualitative Sociology 33 (2): 137-159.

Ponte, Iris, Leslie Wang, and Serena Fan. 2010. “Returning to China: The Experiences of Adopted Chinese Children and Their Parents.” Adoption Quarterly 13 (2): 100-124.

Leslie Wang. 2009. “Missing Girls in an Age of ‘High Quality’: Government Control Over Population and Daughter Discrimination in Reform-Era China.” Social Transformations in Chinese Societies 4: 245-270.

Book Chapters:

Ponte, Iris, Leslie Wang, and Serena Fan. 2010. “Searching for Origins: Parent and Child Perspectives on Return Trips to China.” In From Home to Homeland: What Adoptive Families Need to Know Before Making a Return Trip to China, Debra Jacobs, et al. (Eds). St. Paul, MN: Yeong and Yeong Book Company.

Book Reviews:

Wang, Leslie. 2009. Review of The Kinning of Foreigners: Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective (by Signe Howell 2006). New York: Berghahn Books. Childhood 16: 283-4.

Wang, Leslie. 2003. Review of Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance (by Elizabeth Perry and Mark Selden, eds. 2003) New York : RoutledgeCurzon. Perspectives 4, 4: 39-41.

Wang, Leslie. 2003. Review of Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai (by James Farrer 2002.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Perspectives 4, 3: 39-40.

Publications for a Popular Audience:

Jacobs, Debra, Iris Ponte, and Leslie Wang (Eds.) 2010. From Home to Homeland: What Adoptive Families Need to Know Before Making a Return Trip to China, St. Paul, MN: Yeong and Yeong Book Company.

WORKS IN PROGRESS Books:

Remaking Children: Orphanage Care and Humanitarianism in Globalizing China.

Articles:

“Letting Her Go: Western Adoptive Families’ Search and Reunion with Chinese Birthparents” (under review)

HONORS AND AWARDS

2013 UMass Boston Institute of Asian American Studies Research Fellow

2008 Asia and Asian America Section Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association for “Multicultural Negotiations in a Chinese State-Run Orphanage”

2006 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley GSI Teaching and Resource Center 2005 Racial/Ethnic Minorities Section Graduate Student Paper Award from the Society for the Study of

Social Problems for “From ‘Missing Girls’ to America’s Sweethearts: Parental Ideologies and the Formation of Cultural Identity in Adopted Chinese Daughters”

2000 Phi Beta Kappa

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GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2012 University of British Columbia Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award 2011 Association for Asian Studies China and Inner Asia Council Small Grant

2009 University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Finalist (1

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alternate) 2009 China Times Cultural Foundation Young Scholar Award

2008 Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Student Fellowship, Northern California Chapter 2008 UC Berkeley Sociology Department, Leo Lowenthal Fellowship

2008 Abigail Reynolds Hodgen Publication Fund Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2008 Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley, Liu Dissertation Fellowship 2007 Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley, Liu Dissertation Fellowship

2007 Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley

2006 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship 2006 Fulbright Institute of International Education Fellowship (declined)

2006 UC Berkeley Chinese Alumni Poon Foundation Fellowship 2005 Pacific Rim Research Program Mini-Grant, UC Berkeley

2005 Institute of East Asian Studies Continuing Student Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2004 Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley, Levenson Fellowship

2004 UC Berkeley Graduate Division Summer Humanities Grant

2003 Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2002-04 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, UC Berkeley

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Sole Instructor (Self-designed):

• Introduction to Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Department of Sociology, undergraduate lower-division lecture course. Fall 2013. (80 students)

• Sociology of Gender, University of Massachusetts Boston, Department of Sociology, undergraduate lower-division lecture course. Fall 2013. (38 students)

• Introduction to Sociology, Grand Valley State University, Department of Sociology, undergraduate lower-division lecture course. Fall 2012 and Spring 2013. (135 students and 125 students, respectively)

• Introduction to Sociology (Term 1 of 2), University of British Columbia, Department of Sociology, undergraduate lower-division lecture course. Fall 2010 and Fall 2011. (300 and 250 students, respectively)

• Introduction to Sociology (Term 2 of 2), University of British Columbia, Department of Sociology, undergraduate lower-division lecture course. Spring 2010 and Spring 2012. (300 and 250 students, respectively)

• Sociology of Gender, University of British Columbia, Department of Sociology, undergraduate upper-division lecture course. Spring 2011 and Spring 2012. (35 students)

• Race, Class and Gender, UC Berkeley, Department of Sociology, undergraduate capstone research seminar. Summer 2010. (20 students)

• Gender in Contemporary China, UC Berkeley, Department of Sociology, undergraduate capstone research seminar. Summer 2010. Spring 2008. (20 students)

Graduate Student Instructor (TA):

• Contemporary Sociological Theory, UC Berkeley, Department of Sociology. Prof. Michael Burawoy.

Spring 2006.

• Classical Sociological Theory, UC Berkeley, Department of Sociology. Prof. Michael Burawoy. Fall 2005.

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• Sociology of Gender, UC Berkeley, Department of Sociology. Prof. Barrie Thorne. Spring 2005.

PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

“Producing Global Adoptability: The Case of Special Needs Children in China.” Pepperdine University School of Law Annual Conference, Malibu, CA, February 2013.

“Beyond the ‘Dying Rooms’: Collaborations between the Chinese State and Western NGOs Over the Care of Institutionalized Children.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 2012.

“Care as Love or Labor: Gender, Transnationalism and Volunteer Work Amongst Expatriate Wives in China.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, August 2011.

“Returning to China: The Experience of Adopted Chinese Children and Their Parents.”

• American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, August 2011.

• Society for Cross-Cultural Research Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, February 2010.

“Children First: Global Humanitarianism and Orphanage Care in China.”

• American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2010.

• Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March 2010.

“Importing Western Childhoods into a Chinese State-Run Orphanage.” 6th Annual International Carework Conference, San Francisco, CA, August 2009.

“In Whose Best Interests?: Collaborations Between Western NGOs and the Chinese State Over the Care of Institutionalized Children.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 2009.

“Cultural Conflict and Cooperation in a Chinese State-Run Orphanage.” Intimate Labors: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Domestic, Care, and Sex Work, Santa Barbara, CA, October 2007.

“‘Missing Girls’ in an Era of ‘High Quality’: Daughter Discrimination and Governmental Control Over Population in Reform Era China.”

• American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, August 2007.

• Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate Student Conference on China Studies, Hong Kong, January 2007.

“From ‘Missing Girls’ to American Sweethearts: Parental Ideologies and the Construction of Cultural Identity in Adopted Chinese Daughters.”

• Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Graduate Student Conference, Princeton, NJ, April 2005.

• American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.

“China-U.S. Adoption.” UC Berkeley-Sweden Symposium on Childhood, collaboration between UC

Berkeley Department of History and Linkopen, Sweden University Department of Childhood, Berkeley, May 2004.

INVITED TALKS AND GUEST LECTURES

“Ethnographic Fieldwork in China,” Guest lecture for Immigrant Vancouver Ethnographic Field School,

University of British Columbia, May 9, 2012.

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“Child Abandonment and the Politics of Chinese Transnational Adoption,” Guest Lecture for Sociology of Chinese Society course, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley, March 19, 2009.

“Gender and Transnational Adoption,” Guest Lecture for Gender and the Politics of Childhood Course, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley, March 12, 2009.

“The Nuts and Bolts of Social Science Research in China,” Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley, April 22, 2008.

“The Politics of China-U.S. Adoption and the Formation of Cultural Identity in Adopted Chinese Children,” Guest Lecture for “Gender and the Politics of Childhood” course, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley, March 9, 2008.

“Understanding China-U.S. Adoption,” Colloquium for Tufts University Eliot Pearson Department of Child Development, August 8, 2007.

“Child Abandonment and the Politics of Chinese Transnational Adoption,” Our Chinese Daughters Foundation, Beijing, June 20, 2007.

“From ‘Missing Girls’ to American Sweethearts: Transnational Adoptions from China,” Beijing Normal University Social Development and Public Policy Institute Colloquium, May 10, 2007.

“White Parental Ideologies and the Construction of Cultural Identity in Adopted Chinese Daughters,”

Colloquium for UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender, April 20, 2006.

“The ‘Missing Girls’ of China,” Guest Lecture for “Gender and the Politics of Childhood” course, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley, Feb 19, 2004.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Reviewer, Gender & Society Reviewer, Qualitative Sociology

Reviewer, Journal of Comparative Family Studies Reviewer, Adoption Quarterly

Reviewer, Modern Asian Studies

Reviewer, Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) Social Activism Fact Sheet, “Gender and Transnational Adoption” (2008)

Panel Organizer and Chair for Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting,

• “Issues Facing At-Risk and Institutionalized Youth in Contemporary China” (2012)

• “Local/Global Encounters: Transnational Social Movements in China”(2010)

• “Child Welfare in China” (2009)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Sociological Association, member Association for Asian American Studies, member Association for Asian Studies, member

Sociologists for Women in Society, member LANGUAGES

English and Mandarin Chinese

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REFERENCES

Dr. Barrie Thorne, Professor Emeritus

UC Berkeley Department of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies 480 Barrows Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720-1980 (510) 643-1073

bthorne@berkeley.edu Dr. Thomas B. Gold

UC Berkeley Department of Sociology 446 Barrows Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720-1980 (510) 642-4760

tbgold@berkeley.edu

Dr. Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas UC Berkeley Department of Sociology 474 Barrows Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720-1980 (510) 643-2707

fourcade@berkeley.edu