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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES -- Christine Chin

Christine Chin
Ph.D., American University
E-mail: cchin@american.edu
Phone: (202) 885-1866
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Professor Chin's research and teaching interests are in the political economy of transnational migration, Southeast Asian studies and intercultural relations. She is the author of In Service and Servitude: Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian 'Modernity' Project (Columbia University Press, 1988), and she has published articles in international academic journals such as New Political Economy, Third World Quarterly, Journal of International Communication, and Asia-Pacific Migration Journal. She also is the recipient of various teaching awards at American University such as the University Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the General Education Program, and Outstanding Professor Award in the University Honors Program. Dr. Chin most recently completed a research project that examines the emergence and growth of cruise tourism from an interdisciplinary perspective: the book titled Cruising in the Global Economy: Profits, Pleasure and Work at Sea will be published by Ashgate (in press). She is currently working on two research projects respectively on West African labor migration and communities in the US, and the relationship between tourism and international relations. In the Spring semester of 2008, she will be teaching a new SIS graduate course on Globalization and Tourism.

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