Heidi Hoefinger

Dr. Hoefinger has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, as well as pieces in periodicals and reports. She has also presented at many conferences and professional events and been extensively featured and interviewed in media coverage.

Education

BS, State University of New York, Plattsburgh

MA, Hunter College, City University of New York

PhD, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Professional and Teaching Experience

• Faculty, Berkeley College, Division of General Education, Social Sciences and Honors Program, 2013-present
• Faculty Advisor for the Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA)
• Visiting Scholar, Departments of Political Science and Anthropology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, 2017-2021
• Adjunct Assistant Professor in Anthropology, 2014-2016
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Kingston University, London, UK, Department of Criminology and Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2017-2020
• Adjunct Lecturer, Institute of South East Asian Affairs, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 2011-2017
  
• Adjunct Lecturer, Gender and Sexuality Studies, South East Asia Comparative Semester (SEACS) with Pannasastra University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2011-2017
• Postdoctoral Fellow in Behavioral Science Training in Drug Abuse Research, Public Health Solutions, National Development and Research Institutes, NYC, 2012-2016
• Ethnographer for European Research Council (ERC) grant: “New Migrant Socialities: Ethnic Club Cultures in Urban Europe” (London, Berlin and Paris), Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2011-2012
• Research assistant for Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grant: “Migrants in the UK Sex Industry Project,” for the Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET). Collaboration with the Sexual Health on Call (SHOC) clinic, 2010-2011

Awards and Recognitions

• 2022 Berkeley College Faculty Speaker for Commencement at Prudential Center, New Jersey
• 2016 Winner of the Faculty of the Year Award for Outstanding Scholarship & Honors Program Faculty Excellence Award, Berkeley College
• 2014 Shortlisted for the Thinking Allowed Ethnography of the Year Award, for the book Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia; inaugural award granted by the BBC and British Sociological Association, UK
• 2013 Winner of the Ground-breaking Subject Matter Accolade in the Social Sciences granted by the International Book Prize (IBP) Reading Committee of the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) for my Ph.D. dissertation, Negotiating Intimacy; June 25, Macao.