Dennis McNamara, S.J. is the Park Professor of Sociology and Korean Studies at Georgetown University. He also serves as Special Assistant to the University President for China Affairs. He joined Georgetown University after receiving his PhD from Harvard University, and has gone on to serve as Chair of the Department, as Chair of University Rank and Tenure, as well as founding the biannual Georgetown Conference on Korean Society.

He serves as a member of the Council of Foreign Relations in New York, participates regularly in the APEC Academic Centers Conferences, and chairs the Korea Seminar at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department. He has served as Chair also of the Economic Sociology Committee of the International Sociological Association, and continues as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of International Studies at Sogang University in Seoul, and a frequent lecturer at Renmin and Fudan Universities in China, Waseda and Sophia in Tokyo, and Thammasat University in Bangkok.

His major publications include Business Innovation in Asia - Knowledge and Technology Networks from Japan (2009); “New Places but Old Spaces –Knowledge Hierarchies among Asian SMEs Abroad” in Organization (2006); Market and Society in Korea – Interests, Institutions, and the Textile Industry (2002), Corporatism and Korean Capitalism (1999), and Textiles and Industrial Transition in Japan (1995), and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism (1990).

He is currently at work on a manuscript titled, Knowledge Networks in the New Asia - Japan’s Next Challenge. The study highlights the shift from offshore assembly networks to knowledge flows in Japan’s regional production chains across China, South Korea, and Thailand.