Sam Han

Sam HAN (PhD, Sociology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York) is an interdisciplinary social scientist, working primarily in the areas of social/cultural/critical theory, new media studies, religion, the United States and East Asia (as well as their various overlaps and nodal points). He is currently Lecturer in Sociology at Brunel University London.

He is the author of (Inter)Facing Death: Life in Global Uncertainty(Routledge, 2020), Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-Secular Modernity (Routledge, 2016), Digital Culture and Religion in Asia (Routledge, 2015)(with Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir), Web 2.0 (Routledge, 2011), Navigating Technomedia: Caught in the Web (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) and editor (with Daniel Chaffee) of The Race of Time: A Charles Lemert Reader (Routledge, 2009). He also makes photographs.

Education

• PhD The Graduate Center, City University of New York (2006 — 2012)
• BA Wesleyan University (2002 — 2006)

Companies

• Senior Lecturer The University of Western Australia (2018)
• Associate Professor Nanyang Technological University (2018 — 2018)
• Assistant Professor of Sociology Nanyang Technological University (2012 — 2018)
• Instructional Technology Fellow Macaulay Honors College (2009 — 2012)
• Instructor of Continuing Education City University of New York (2007 — 2011)
• Visiting Instructor College of Staten Island, City University of New York (2007 — 2009)