The Department of Sociology invites scholars from various fields around the world, in order to broaden the horizon of our students and faculties by introducing a wide range of research interests, and provide the opportunity of communicating with scholars from various cultural backgrounds .
The following is the list of the courses taught by visiting scholars in the past five years:
- Dino Numerato (Department of Sociology, Charles University, Prague)
Sociology of Sports (Fall, 2026) - Beatrice Zani (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
Migrant Workers in Contemporary Asia (Spring, 2026) - Sara Friedman (Departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington)
Queer Families in Global Perspective (Spring, 2026) - Anthony Spires (The University of Melbourne)
Civil Society and Social Change in China (Fall, 2025) - Minwoo Jung (The University of Melbourne)
Transnational Korea (Fall, 2025) - Takemasa Ando (College of Sociology at Musashi University)
Democracy and Civil Society in Japan (Fall, 2024) - OCHIAI Emiko (Department of Sociology at Kyoto University)
Asian Families and Genders (Spring, 2024). - Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio (Department of Environmental Studies at Yale-NUS College)
Food Security in a Changing Climate (Fall, 2023). - Gi-Wook Shin (Department of Sociology at Stanford University)
Talents Giants in the Asia-Pacific Century (Spring, 2023) - KuoRay Mao 毛國瑞 (Department of Sociology at Colorado State University-Fort Collins)
Criminology (Spring, 2022) - Ming-Cheng M. Lo 駱明正 (Department of Sociology at UC Davis)
Social Movements in a Global Context (Spring, 2021) - Ken Chih-Yan Sun 孫志硯 (Department of Sociology at Villanova University)
Inequalities and Transnational Migration (Spring, 2021)