*Download full CV in PDF form below EDUCATION Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Department of Sociology, Spring 2010 (expected) 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 M.A. University of California, Berkeley Sociology, May 2005 From "Missing Girls" to America's Sweethearts: White Parental Ideologies Toward Instilling Cultural Identity in Adopted Chinese Daughters B.A. University of California, San Diego Sociology (High Honors) and Chinese Studies, June 2000 Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles: Leslie Wang. Forthcoming 2010. "Importing Western Childhoods into a Chinese State-Run Orphanage." Qualitative Sociology. 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. Forthcoming. "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 Company. Books: Jacobs, Debra, Iris Ponte, and Leslie Wang (eds.) From Home to Homeland: What Adoptive Families Need to Know Before Making a Return Trip to China. St. Paul: MN: Yeong and Yeong Company. WORK IN PROGRESS Ponte, Iris, Leslie Wang, and Serena Fan. "Returning to China: The Experiences of Adopted Chinese Children and Their Parents." Conditional Acceptance from Adoption Quarterly. Leslie Wang. "Multicultural Negotiations Over the Care of China's Abandoned Children." Revise and Resubmit from Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. HONORS AND AWARDS 2008 Asia and Asian America Section Graduate Student Paper Award, awarded by 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, awarded by 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 EXTERNAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2009 University of California Office of the President Postdoctoral Fellowship Finalist 2008 Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Student Fellowship, Northern California Chapter 2006 Fulbright-Hays International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2006 Fulbright-IIE Fellowship (declined) UC BERKELEY GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2008 UC Berkeley Sociology Department, Leo Lowenthal Fellowship 2008 Abigail Reynolds Hodgen Publication Fund Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2008 Center for Chinese Studies, Liu Dissertation Fellowship 2007 Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2007 Center for Chinese Studies, Liu Dissertation Fellowship 2006 UC Berkeley Chinese Alumni Poon Foundation Fellowship 2005 Pacific Rim Research Program Mini-Grant, UC Berkeley 2005 Institute for 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 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Academic Year Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2003 Summer FLAS, UC Berkeley 2002 FLAS Academic Year Fellowship, UC Berkeley TEACHING EXPERIENCE UC Berkeley, Department of Sociology, 2005-08 Instructor Gender in Contemporary China (Spring 2008) Self-designed course; upper-division senior seminar that explored key theoretical and empirical works on gender in China; students wrote an extensive final research paper (15-20pp) on a topic of their choosing Teaching Assistant Contemporary Sociological Theory (Spring 2006; upper division) Classical Sociological Theory (Fall 2005; upper division) Sociology of Gender (Spring 2005; upper division) Reader Sociology of the Family (Fall 2009) Gender and the Politics of Childhood (Spring 2009) Sociology of Poverty (Fall 2004) PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS 2009 "Importing Western Childhoods into a Chinese State-Run Orphanage." Presented at the 6th Annual International Carework Conference, San Francisco, CA, August 7. 2009 "In Whose Best Interests?: Collaborations Between Western NGOs and the Chinese State Over the Care of Institutionalized Children." Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, IL, March 26-29. 2008 "Returning to China: The Experiences of Adopted Chinese Children and Their Parents." Presented at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, April 15-19. 2007 "Cultural Conflict and Cooperation in a Chinese State-Run Orphanage." Presented at Intimate Labors: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Domestic, Care, and Sex Work, Santa Barbara, CA, October 4-6. 2007. "'Missing Girls' in an Era of 'High Quality': Daughter Discrimination and Governmental Control Over Population in Reform Era China." Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 11-14, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate Student Conference on China Studies, Hong Kong, January 7-10. 2005. "From 'Missing Girls' to America's Sweethearts: Parental Ideologies and the Construction of Cultural Identity in Adopted Chinese Daughters." Presented at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Graduate Student Conference, Princeton, NJ, April 8, and the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 15. 2004. "China-U.S. Adoption." Presented at the UC Berkeley-Sweden Symposium on Childhood, Collaboration Between UC Berkeley Department of History and Linkopen, Sweden University Department of Childhood, Berkeley, CA, May 12-14. INVITED TALKS AND GUEST LECTURES 2009 "'Missing Girls', Child Abandonment and Adoption in Contemporary China." 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. 2008 "The Nuts and Bolts of Social Science Research in China." Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley, April 22. 2008 "Cultural Identity Formation in Adopted Chinese Children." Guest Lecture for Gender and the Politics of Childhood Course, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley, March 9. 2007 "Understanding China-U.S. Adoption." Colloquium for Tufts University Eliot Pearson Department of Child Development, August 8. 2007 "China-U.S. Adoption." Beijing Normal University Social Development and Public Policy Institute, May 10. 2006 "White Parental Ideologies and the Construction of Cultural Identity in Adopted Chinese Daughters." Colloquium for UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender, April 20.
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