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Kimberly Hoang, "Money Movers: Ethnography of Desire in Gray Economies in Southeast Asia"

  
University of Chicago professor and award-winning author, Dr. Kimberly Hoang, will present "Money Movers" tonight at 7:30 PM, in a combined Women's History and Asian Studies keynote address. Free and open to the public. Attendance slips will be provided.

Kimberly Kay Hoang teaches sociology at the University of Chicago and is the author of "Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work" (University of California Press, 2015), the recipient of seven distinguished book awards from the American Sociological Association, the National Women Studies Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Association for Asian Studies and more.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago, Dr. Hoang was a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University (2011-13) and an assistant professor of sociology at Boston College (2013-15).

Event Date: March 22  7:30 PM  Location: O'Donnell Hall, Whitlock Building  Cost: Free
Contact Information: Erik Liddell