He is Hu Shih Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chinese Studies and Anthropology at Cornell University.
His research interests include socio-cultural anthropology, religion and ritual, gender, psychoanalysis, practice, China and Taiwan.
Subsequently, Sangren was commissioned as a LTJG and served in the Underwater Demolition Team Eleven from 1969 to 1972.
In 1972, Sangren headed for Stanford University to pursue his Ph.D. in anthropology under the supervision of G. William Skinner.
[3] Sangren was named the Hu Shih Distinguished Professor of China Studies in 2017.
Hsin Chu Bank Endowed Lecture Series on Thought and Culture.
The Program for Research of Intellectual-Cultural History, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan: R.O.C.
Academic Articles 2013 The Chinese family as instituted fantasy: or, rescuing kinship imaginaries from the ‘symbolic'.
2010 Lessons for General Social Theory in the Legacy of G. William Skinner from the Perspectives of Gregory Bateson and Terence Turner.
2004 Psychoanalysis and Its Resistances in Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality: Lessons for Anthropology.
Chapters 2009 Chinese Ghosts: Reconciling Psychoanalytic, Structuralist, and Marxian Perspectives.
2003 Separations, Autonomy, and Recognition in the Production of Gender Differences: Reflections from Consideration of Myths and Laments.