Kangsan Lee
Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD Northwestern University
Research Areas: Economic Sociology, Sociology of Art and Culture, Organizations and Entrepreneurship, Computational Social Science, Social Networks
Kangsan Lee is an assistant professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University (Abu Dhabi campus) and a faculty affiliate in the Business, Organizations, and Society program. He currently serves on the editorial board of the journal, Poetics (Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts) and the governing committee of the Business, Organizations, and Society program.
His interdisciplinary interests center around economic sociology, the sociology of culture and art, organizations and entrepreneurship, and social networks. His research focuses on understanding social mechanisms operating under extreme uncertainty and rapidly changing environments in two primary research areas: 1) The social construction of value and 2) Organizational changes and social resilience during crises.
He has contributed to numerous articles in highly reputable academic journals across disciplines, including Social Forces (general sociology), Science Advances (general science), Nature: Scientific Reports (general science), Socius (general sociology), Journal of International Money and Finance (finance and applied economics), Poetics (cultural sociology), Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology (sociological theory), Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Sociology (economic sociology), and a peer-reviewed book chapter on the sociology of arts.
Lee's research has been supported by the Buffett Institute for International Studies (Northwestern University, USA), American Assembly (Columbia University, USA), and The Office of Research (Zayed University, UAE). He has also been invited to various platforms, including SkyNews Arabia 9 pm News, MIT Enterprise Forum, the Startup India (The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Government of India), CultureSTATS (Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi, UAE), and the Advisory Board at Maan, the Authority of Social Contribution, Social Investment, and Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program at The Government of UAE.