Berkley Center

He Rong was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Berkley Center for the 2011-2012 academic year, with research interests in the sociology of religion, economic sociology, and classical social theory. From 2008 to 2009 Dr. He was a visiting scholar at Baylor University's Institute for the Study of Religion. She previously taught at the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as an associate professor in 2010 and 2007 after working as an assistant professor from 2005 to 2007; she also was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Sociology from 2003 to 2005. From 1996 to 2000 Dr. He was Lecturer at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology. She is the author of three books (in Chinese), Economics and Sociology: Max Weber and The Basic of Social Sciences (2009), History of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867-1918): An Introduction to the Society and Culture of Central Europe (2002), and Man and His World: Stories of the History of Ideas (1999), as well as numerous journal articles and conference papers. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Peking University and a M.A. in history from Shaan’xi Normal University.