The Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Kenneth J. Guest

Professor

Email: Ken.Guest@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: 646 312-4477
Fax: 646 312-4461

Location: VC 4-258

Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age God in Chinatown

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Ken Guest is a professor, author, and public speaker based in New York City.

Ken is Professor of Anthropology at Baruch College, CUNY where he teaches courses on globalization, cross-cultural interaction, immigration, religion and New York City.

Why Cultural Anthropology is Important?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir6P1oYj2rk

He is author of four books, including the best-selling Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age (WW Norton 2014) and the highly regarded God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York’s Evolving Immigrant Community (NYU Press 2003).

H Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork Journal is media appearances include television (CCTV, NY1, Sinovision, Telemundo) and radio segments (BBC, NPR Morning Edition, Marketplace, The Brian Lehrer Show) and his research has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, The Taipei Times and other media outlets.

Ken’s more than 20 years of ethnographic research in China and the United States traces the immigration journey of recent Chinese immigrants from Fuzhou, southeast China, who, drawn by restaurant, garment shop, and construction jobs and facilitated by a vast human smuggling network, have revitalized New York’s Chinatown. His writing explores the role of Fuzhounese religious communities in China and the United States; the religious revival sweeping coastal China; the Fuzhounese role in the rapidly expanding U.S. network of all-you-can-eat buffets and take-out restaurants; and the higher education experiences of the Fuzhounese second generation.

A native of Florida, Ken studied Chinese at Beijing University and Middlebury College. He received his B.A. from Columbia University (East Asian Languages and Cultures), an M.A. from Union Theological Seminary (Religious Studies), and the M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. from The City University of New York Graduate Center (Anthropology).

Books

God in Chinatown

Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age

Essentials of Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age

Cultural Anthropology: Fieldwork Journal

Other Writing

All You Can Eat Buffets and Chicken With Broccoli to Go

Anthropology Now, 2009

From Mott Street to East Broadway: Fuzhounese Immigrants and the Revitalization of New York’s Chinatown

Journal of Overseas Chinese, 2011

CUNY’s New Chinese Immigrants Navigate a Precarious Path to Upward Mobility

With Ke Liang