C. Winter Han

C. Winter Han

Professor, Sociology, Middlebury College

Middlebury College

C. Winter Han is a Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College. He is the author of Geisha of a Different Kind: Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America (NYU Press, 2015) and Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire (University of Washington Press, 2021). He is a nationally recognized expert on issues of racism in gay communities. Prior to becoming an academic, he was an award winning journalist and spent three years as the Editor of The International Examiner, the oldest continuously publishing pan-Asian Pacific Islander American newspaper in the United States.

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural Studies
  • Film and Media
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Social Inequality or Stratification
  • Social Theory
  • Social Work
  • Sociology
  • Sexuality and Gender

Methodology

  • Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
  • Ethnographic Methods
  • Focus Groups
  • Interviews
  • Mixed Methods
  • Qualitative Methods
  • Secondary Data Analysis