Esther Ngan-ling Chow (Ph.D., University of CA-Los Angeles) has published extensively in the areas of intersectionality of race/ethnicity, class, and gender; work and family; social inequality; ethnic community; gender and development; globalization and social change; migration; economic sociology; feminist theory and pedagogy; citizenship and human security; policy studies; and Asian American studies. Her work reflects expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies with a new emphasis on participatory action research. She was a Fulbright New Century Scholar, 2004-2005. She serves as an elected member on the Council of American Sociological Association and Co-Chair Elect of Research Committee 32, "Women and Society" at the International Sociological Association. Her publications include Women, the Family, and Policy: A Global Perspective (1994), Race, Class and Gender (1996), Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia (2002), "Globalization, Gender, and Social Change in the 21st Century" guest-edited special issue of International Sociology (2003).