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Department of Sociology

Kennedy Chi-Pan Wong

Ph.D. Student
Kennedy Chi-Pan Wong
Email chipanwo@usc.edu

Biography

I am a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Southern California. Born and raised during the transitional period of post-colonial Hong Kong and currently living as a stateless exile, I am deeply interested in how people relate their struggles to the broader world, which drives various forms of relational dynamics between and within collective actions. My research examines how symbolic forms in everyday life create complex political alignments that do not always foster unity but...

Education

  • B.A. Sociology, University of British Columbia, 2019

  • Book

    • Wong, K., Tsang, A. (2014). The Invisible Citizens: Urban Life of the Homeless (Published in Chinese). Hong Kong: Hypermedia Press.

    Journal Article

    • Wong, K. (2021). From helmets to face masks: How collective emotions sustain diaspora mobilization from homeland uprising to global pandemic among the Hong Kongers. Social Transformations in Chinese Societies.pp. ahead-of-print. PubMed Web Address
    • Wong, K., Yan, M. (2022). Leaving the Homeland Again for My Family’s Future: Post-Return Migration Among Hong Kong Canadians. Journal of International Migration and Integration. PubMed Web Address
    • Wong, K. (2024). Sowing Hate, Cultivating Loyalists: Mobilizing Repressive Nationalist Diasporas for Transnational Repression by the People’s Republic of China Regime. American Behavioral Scientist. PubMed Web Address
    • Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award, Pacific Sociological Association, United States., 2023-2024
    • Bessie McClenahan Research Collaboration Grant, University of Southern California, United States., 2020-2021
    • Emory Bogardus Research Enhancement Grant, University of Southern California, United States., 2020-2021
    • Faces of Today Award, UBC Student Leadership Conference, the University of British Columbia, Canada., 2018-2019
    • Second Place Achievement in the Social Sciences, National Collegiate Research Conference, Harvard University, MA, United States., 2018-2019
    • The 2018 American Sociological Association (ASA) Honors Program, Philadelphia, PA, United States., 2018-2019
    • International Community Achievement Awards, The University of British Columbia, Canada., 2017-2018
    • Second Place of the Oral presentation, the 2016 Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference, The University of British Columbia, Canada., 2015-2016