Faculty Profile for Dr. Kyong H Chee

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Dr. Kyong H Chee
Professor — Sociology
THH 468
phone: (512) 245-4760
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Kyong Hee Chee is a Professor of Sociology and an Honorary Professor of International Studies at Texas State University. She has a BFA and an MBA, and received her MS and PhD in Sociology from Iowa State University with specializations in aging/life course, family, and community. Before joining Texas State in 2006, she taught at Georgia Southern University where she was an Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Center for Social Gerontology. At Texas State, she contributed to the creation of the Master of Science in Dementia and Aging Studies Program (MSDA) and currently serves as the Director of this fully online, interdisciplinary program - the first of its kind in the United States.

Teaching Interests

 Aging, life course, dementia, and gender

Research Interests

 Dementia and elder care, social engagement and generativity among older adults, community-based health programs, and evaluation research

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Chee, K. H. (2024). Health and Aging. In Sociology: Think Outside the Book. Top Hat. Retrieved from https://tophat.com/catalog/-/-/full-course/sociology-think-outside-the-book/5911/
  • Chee, K. H., Gerhart, O. S., & Kim, S. (2023). Lived Experiences of Personal Growth among the Oldest-Old: Narrative Evidence. Educational Gerontology. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/03601277.2023.2217554
  • Kim, E. H., Chee, K. H., DeStefano, C., Broome, A., & Bell, B. (2021). Retention in Intergenerational Exercise Classes for Older Adults: A Mixed-Method Research Study. Educational Gerontology, 47(6), 269–284.
  • Kim, S., Chee, K. H., & Gerhart, O. S. (2020). Generativity in collective storytelling: Evidence from a memory care community. Innovation in Aging, 4(2), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa002
  • Lee, H. J., & Chee, K. H. (2020). “Without Feeling Guilty”: Filial Piety and Eldercare in Twenty-First-Century Korea. In J. L. Shea & H. Zhang (Eds.), Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Eldercare in Contemporary East Asian Societies. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Publishers.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (FGSA), Gerontological Society of America. May 2018 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: College of Liberal Arts Achievement Award for Excellence in Service, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. August 2015
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Texas State University-San Marcos. August 2011
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Civic Engagement in an Older America Project Senior Scholar Award, Gerontological Society of America. November 2008
  • Award / Honor Recipient: 2006 Sociological Spectrum Article of the Year, Mid-South Sociological Association. October 2006

Selected Grants

  • Ngu, Hee H (Principal), Chang, Joshua (Co-Principal), Chee, Kyong H (Supporting), Milton, John (Supporting), Yan, Yan (Co-Principal). Collaborative Research: SCH: Personalized Watch-based Fall Risk Analysis and Detection with Cross Modal Learning, NSF-CISE, NIH, Federal, $1103754. (Submitted: February 8, 2021, Funded: September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2025). Grant.
  • Chee, Kyong H (Principal), Gerhart, Olga S (Co-Principal), Kim, Seoyoun (Co-Principal). Storytelling, Generativity, and Well-Being among Persons Living with Dementia, Texas State University, $17991. (Funded: July 1, 2018 - December 31, 2019). Grant.
  • Chee, Kyong H (Principal), Johnson, Christopher (Co-Principal). University Lecturers Series, Texas State University, Institutional (Higher Ed), $4000. (Funded: 2014). Grant.
  • Sen, Keya (Principal), Chee, Kyong (Co-Principal), Mandal, Sujata (Co-Principal), Hwang, Sangchul (Co-Principal). Incontinence Management Program for Older Adults (Regional NSF I-Corps MVP), Texas State Regional I-Corps Site for Entrepreneurship, Texas State University, $4800. (Submitted: September 2022, Funded: December 2022 - March 2023). Grant.
  • Sen, Keya (Principal), Chee, Kyong (Co-Principal), Mandal, Sujata (Co-Principal), Hwang, Sangchul (Co-Principal). Incontinence Management Program for Older Adults (Regional NSF I-Corps Mini), Texas State Regional I-Corps Site for Entrepreneurship, Texas State University, $3000. (Submitted: September 2022, Funded: November 2022 - January 2023). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Board Member
The Price Center
September 2021-Present
Graduate Advisor
Master of Science in Dementia and Aging Studies (MSDA)
August 15, 2019-Present
Founder, Former Primary Convener, and Outreach Coordinator
Alliance of Researchers in Aging (ARIA)
May 2019-Present
Editorial Review Board Member
Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice
May 2019-Present
Faculty Senate Liaison
Faculty Senate
September 2015-May 2023