FEATURED AUTHOR
Sam Han
I am an interdisciplinary social scientist working primarily in the areas of social/cultural/critical theory, new media studies, religion, and East Asia (as well as their various overlaps and nodal points). I am currently Senior Lecturer of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia.
Education
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PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2012
BA, Wesleyan University, CT, USA, 2006
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Cultural and media studies of religion
Religion in Asia
Death and mourning in the digital age
Psychoanalytic-social theories of religion
Ethics, identity and lifestyle
The religious discourse of technology as sinful
Affect
The sociology of honor and sacrifice
The social aesthetics of melodrama