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Education
PhD,
Sociology, Princeton University, expected 2010
Thesis:
Dyadic
Ethics: How Person-to-Person Obligations Change the Meaning of Debt and
Group Strength in Rural China
Committee:
Robert Wuthnow (chair), Paul DiMaggio, Miguel Centeno, Deborah Davis
MA,
Sociology, Princeton University, 2004, with distinction
Committee:
Robert Wuthnow (chair), Paul DiMaggio, Alejandro Portes
BA,
Sociology with History, Yale University, 1997, cum laude and distinction in
the major
Areas of research interest
Theory,
culture, economic sociology, religion, organizations, public sociology
Articles
Hsu,
Becky. “Debt and Moral Obligation: Culture, Networks and Microcredit in
Rural China.” Under review.
Hsu,
Becky. “Culture and Poverty Alleviation: Confucian Ethics in Rural China”
in Korgen, Kathleen Odell, Jonathan White, and Shelley White, eds., Sociologists
in Action. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge/SAGE. Forthcoming.
Hsu,
Becky. "Microcredit" in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology,
ed. George Ritzer. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Forthcoming.
2008.
Hsu, Becky, Amy Reynolds, Conrad Hackett, and Jim Gibbons. "Estimating
the Religious Composition of All Nations: An Empirical Assessment.” Journal
for the Scientific Study of Religion 47(4):678-693.<PDF>
2007.
Hsu, Becky. “Social Capital as the Underlying Mechanism Linking Religion
and Economic Development.” The International Scope Review 8(13).
2004.
Wuthnow, Robert, Conrad Hackett, and Becky Hsu. "The Effectiveness and
Trustworthiness of Faith-Based and Other Service Organizations: A Study of
Recipients' Perceptions." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
43: 1-17. <PDF>
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Winner, ASA Sociology of Religion Section distinguished article award
Book
Dyadic
Ethics: How Person-to-Person Obligations Change the Meaning of Debt in
Rural China
A
manuscript is under development which examines the effect of moral
understandings on the economy. This should be of interest to American sociologists
because it addresses the classical sociological question of religion and
the economy. It also uncovers an interesting relationship between culture
and the dyad by using original ethnographic evidence collected from rural
China to make its case.
Working papers
Hsu,
Becky. “Mismatched Moral Dispositions and Economic Logics: Social
Collateral, Liability, and Microcredit in Rural China.”
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Winner, ASA Sociological Practice Section student award
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Honorable mention, ASA Theory Section best student paper
Hsu,
Becky. “Dyads, Collective Sanctions, and Culture: Weakness of Strong Ties
in a Chinese Microloan Program.”
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Winner, ASA Section on Asia and Asian America best student paper
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Winner, Eastern Sociological Society best student paper
Hsu,
Becky. "Culture and the Dyad."
Grim,
Brian and Becky Hsu. "Measuring the World Muslim Population."
Hsu,
Becky Stephanie Boddie and Conrad Hackett. "The Influence of
Individual Characteristics on Desired Qualities in Social Service
Providers."
Hsu,
Becky. “Social Sources of Customary Trustworthiness: The Effect of
Religion, Moral Crystallization and Associational Participation on
Propensity to Obey Laws.”
Other Publications
2009.
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. “Mapping the Global Muslim
Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Muslim
Population.” Washington, DC: Pew Research Center.
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Cited in The
New York Times, The
Economist, CNN,
BBC
2006.
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. “Spirit and Power: A 10-Country
Survey of Pentecostals.” Washington, DC: Pew Research Center.
Awards
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2008
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Student
Sociological Practitioner Award
ASA
Sociological Practice Section
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2008
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Shils-Coleman
Memorial Award for best graduate student paper, honorable mention
ASA
Theory Section
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2007
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Best
graduate student paper award
ASA
Section on Asia and Asian America
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2007
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Candace
Rogers Award for best graduate student paper on any topic
Eastern
Sociological Society
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2004
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Distinguished
article award (with Robert Wuthnow and Conrad Hackett)
ASA
Sociology of Religion Section
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Grants and fellowships
(selected)
National
Science Foundation (proposal in development), 2010
Mellon/ACLS
Doctoral Completion Dissertation Fellowship, alternate, 2007
Charlotte
W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, finalist, 2007
Research
grant, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, 2007
Graduate
fellowship, Peking University Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2006
Fellowship
of Woodrow Wilson Scholars, Princeton University, 2004-6
(competitive
fellowship to join a multi-disciplinary society of social science faculty
and students conducting research relevant to public policy)
Graduate
award, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, 2004 and
2005
Summer
research grant, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University, 2004
Summer
fellowship, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies,
2004
Graduate
fellowship, National Science Foundation, honorable mention, 2003
Graduate
fellowship, National Science Foundation, honorable mention, 2002
Graduate
student award, Social Science History Association (SSHA), 2002
Graduate
fellowship, Graduate School, Princeton University, 2001-2005
Teaching
Co-Director,
Senior Thesis Workshop, 2003-4, Sociology Department, Princeton University.
Designed
and taught bi-weekly workshop for undergraduate sociology majors writing
mandatory senior theses. Provided guidance for all aspects of the year-long
research paper, including question formation, literature review,
qualitative methods, and quantitative methods.
Teaching
Assistant for Howard Taylor, Social Basis of Individual Behavior, 2003 and
2004, Sociology Department, Princeton University.
Led
weekly precept discussions on course readings, clarified lectures, provided
guidance on term papers, supervised original research, graded exams and
papers.
Presentations (selected)
American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA - Aug 2009
Culture
and Inequality Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ - Oct 2009
Economic
Sociology Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton NJ - Mar 2008
Religion
and World Community Seminar, Columbia University, New York NY - Oct 2007
American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY - Aug 2007
Social
Science Workshop on China, Yale University, New Haven, CT - Nov 2006
The
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Pew Research Center, Washington, DC
- Feb 2006
Society
for Comparative Research Annual Graduate Retreat, Budapest, Hungary - Jul
2005
International
Institute of Sociology, 36th World Congress, Beijing, China - Jul 2004
Independent
Sector Research Forum, Washington, DC - Mar 2003
Eastern
Sociological Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY - Feb 2003
Consulting
Pew
Research Center, 2006- present
Developing
the World Religion Database (WRD), the most comprehensive international
religion data set in the world, which draws from Census data, Demographic
and Health Surveys, Afrobarometer surveys, and other sources. Primarily
addresses problems arising regarding compatibility of the different data
sources. Includes developing adjustments to sample weights and
considerations of matching on the province level.
Professional Service and
Memberships
Memberships:
American Sociological Association (Theory Section, Economic Sociology
Section, Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology, Section on
Asia and Asian America
Elected
positions: Secretary-Treasurer of ASA Section on Sociological Practice and
Public Sociology - 2009-2011
Reviewer
American
Journal of Sociology, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
References
Robert
Wuthnow
Department
of Sociology
Princeton
University
Princeton,
NJ 08544
609-258-4742
or 258-4531
wuthnow@princeton.edu
Paul
DiMaggio
Department
of Sociology
Princeton
University
Princeton NJ 08544
609-258-1971
dimaggio@princeton.edu
Miguel
Centeno
Department
of Sociology
Princeton
University
Princeton NJ 08544
609-258-4452
cenmiga@princeton.edu
Deborah
Davis
Department
of Sociology
Yale
University
140
Prospect Street
New
Haven, CT 06520
203-432-3327
deborah.davis@yale.edu
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