Gary G. Hamilton
Professor, University of Washington

Gary G. Hamilton is a Professor in the UW Department of Sociology and the UW's Jackson School of International Studies. He specializes in historical/comparative sociology, economic sociology, and organizational sociology with a focus in Asian societies, with particular emphasis on Chinese societies. He has previously held teaching positions at the University of California, Davis, and Tunghai University in Taiwan. He is the recipient of a number of honors, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship at The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Dr. Hamilton has received research awards from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. He has published numerous books and articles, including most recently Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the end of the 20th Century, editor and contributor (University of Washington Press, 1999), The Economic Organization of East Asian Capitalism, with Marco Orru and Nicole Biggart (Sage 1997), and Asian Business Networks, editor (de Gruyter, 1996). He is the co-author, with Robert Feenstra, of a forthcoming book, Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths: Economic Organization and International Trade in South Korea and Taiwan, (Cambridge University Press).