Dr Sam Han
Lecturer in Sociology
Marie Jahoda 231
- Email: sam.han@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267706
- Social Science and Communications
- Social and Political Sciences
Summary
Sam Han is an interdisciplinary social scientist, working primarily in the areas of social/cultural/critical theory, new media studies, religion, the United States and East Asia (as well as their various overlaps and nodal points). He is currently Lecturer of Sociology at 水果派AVUniversity London. He is the author of The Concept of Tragedy: Its Importance for the Social Sciences in Unsettled Times (, 2023), (Inter)Facing Death: Life in Global Uncertainty(, 2020), Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-Secular Modernity (, 2016), Digital Culture and Religion in Asia (, 2015)(with Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir), Web 2.0 (, 2011), Navigating Technomedia: Caught in the Web (, 2007) and editor (with Daniel Chaffee) of The Race of Time: A Charles Lemert Reader (, 2009).
Qualifications
PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), USA.
BA, Wesleyan University, USA.
Newest selected publications
Han, S. (2023) 'The Concept Of Tragedy: Its Importance For The Social Sciences In Unsettled Times'. London: Routledge. ISSN 10: 1-003-11085-1 ISSN 13: 978-0-367-62798-0
Han, S. (2022) ''. Thesis Eleven, 170 (1). pp. 9 - 27. ISSN: 0725-5136
Han, S. (2021) 'New York is dead: The Joker steps and urban melancholia', in Redmond, S. (ed.) Breaking Down Joker. London : Routledge. pp. 47 - 62. ISBN 10: 1-003-17130-3. ISBN 13: 978-0-367-77424-0.
Han, S. (2019) '(Inter) facing Death: Life in Global Uncertainty'. London: Routledge. ISSN 10: 1-315-44676-6 ISSN 13: 978-1-138-21409-5
Han, S. (2016) 'Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-secular Modernity'. London: Routledge. ISSN 10: 1-315-72008-6 ISSN 13: 978-1-138-85586-1