Jun Fang
Title
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Department
Sociology
Information
- Curriculum Vitae/Personal Webpage
- [email protected]
- Diamond 205
Office Hours
M-W: 12:15-1:15 pm
Current Courses
| CRS | Title | Sec |
|---|---|---|
| EN125 | Humanities at Play: Exploring the Annual Humanities theme | A |
| SO241 | Sociology of Creativity | A |
| SO248 | Sociology of Culture | A |
| SO271 | Introduction to Sociological Research Methods | A |
| SO343 | Sociology of Hollywood | A |
| SO345 | Current Topics in Sociology | A |
Education
Ph.D., 2021, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise
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Sociology of Culture
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Global and Transnational Sociology
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Organizations, Occupations & Work
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Social Theory
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Qualitative Methods
Personal Information
Jun (Philip) Fang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colby College. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University. As a cultural sociologist studying China’s engagement with the West, he broadly addresses how contrasting forces of nationalism and globalization shape processes of creative production. His current book project, titled When China Meets Hollywood: Global Collaboration and State Intervention in a Creative Industry, is an ethnography of how Chinese conglomerates and Hollywood studios co-produce films from script to screen.
His research has been published in Poetics, Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Studies, and SAGE Research Methods Foundations, and has won fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the University of Chicago Ethnography Incubator. He also co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Chinese Sociology on East Asian perspectives on the sociology of arts and culture. Previously, he taught in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of William & Mary and wrote culture columns for the China editions of The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Caixin Global. For more information, please visit his personal website.
Publications
Fang, Jun. 2023. “Globalizing the Sociology of the Arts and Culture: East Asian Perspectives.” The Journal of Chinese Sociology 10(8): 1-15.
Fang, Jun. 2020. “Tensions in Aesthetic Socialization: Negotiating Competence and Differentiation in Chinese Art Test Prep Schools.” Poetics 79.
Fang, Jun, and Gary Alan Fine. 2020. “Names and Selves: Transnational Identities and Self-Presentation among Elite Chinese International Students.” Qualitative Sociology 43(4): 427-448.
Fine, Gary Alan, and Jun Fang. 2019. “Idioculture.” In Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug, and Richard A. Williams (eds.), SAGE Research Methods Foundations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Fang, Jun. 2018. “The Visual Arts in the Chinese Middle-Class Home: Occupational Status Groups, Abstract Art, and Self-Presentation.” Sociological Studies 5: 66-92.