Kevin D. Ming
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Nonprofit Studies
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Profile
Dr. Kevin Ming is a public anthropologist engaging ethnographic and multi-disciplinary research with social justice and sustainability. His work focuses on the intersection of development projects of various sorts and the lived experiences of highly vulnerable communities, and in particular, displacement, migration and labor, gender, and urban/rural issues. He has extensive experience designing and directing multi-disciplinary applied research projects for NGOs and non-profits, building educational empowerment programs for disadvantaged youth, and in public consultancy.
Ming’s dissertation was based on long-term field research on the co-constitution of spatial and social marginality in the narratives and experiences of migrant sex workers in southern China and Hong Kong, where, as a Fulbright Fellow at the Women and Gender Education Centre at Sun Yat-sen University, he collaborated with scholar/activists to support gender and labor justice in China. His field research and activism in recent years has focused on issues facing marginalized youth in Hong Kong, and labor and environmental exploitation in the Malaysian oil palm industry
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Grants and Fellowships
Kadoorie Foundation Grant, Project Share (Hong Kong)
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
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Memberships
American Anthropological Association
Association for Asian Studies
International History Honor Society
National Leadership Honor Society
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Professional Experience
Research Director (2015-2019)
Share (Asia Pacific) Ltd., Project Share and Liberty Shared (Industry on Community Research Project), Hong Kong and MalaysiaChief Representative (2011-2013)
University of Pittsburgh - China Office, Beijing, ChinaDirector and Lecturer (2009-2011)
International Education Development Program and Further Studies, ULink College of International Culture, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, ChinaLecturer (2008-2009)
South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, ChinaFulbright-Hays Fellow and Research Associate (2005-2008)
University of Pittsburgh/Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University
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Grants and Fellowships
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Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Ming, K. (2005). Cross-border traffic: Stories of dangerous victims, pure whores, and HIV/AIDS in the experience of mainland female sex workers in Hong Kong. Asia-Pacific Viewpoint, 46(1), 35-48.
Book ChaptersMing, K. (2018). Beyond cruel optimisms. In I. Gilbert (Ed.), The working class: Proverty, education, and alternative voices. Crown House Publishing.
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