Hobbs was a charter member of the Association for Asian Studies, which was set up in 1948 as the Far Eastern Association.
A session of the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in 2002 was devoted to the report, where its methods were criticised by David Nivison, among others.
Association football | association football | Forward (association football) | Goalkeeper (association football) | Defender (association football) | National Basketball Association | American Association for the Advancement of Science | Association of Tennis Professionals | American Library Association | World Boxing Association | National Collegiate Athletic Association | American Association | American Heart Association | English studies | Asian | National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics | National Rifle Association | International Development Association | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | American Bar Association | Philippine Basketball Association | 2013 Southeast Asian Games | American Medical Association | Asian American | International Air Transport Association | World Hockey Association | Women's Tennis Association | Gaelic Athletic Association | Substitute (association football) | Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta |
He is active in the American Sociological Association, Association for Asian Studies, Sociological Research Association, Population Association of America, National Committee for U.S. China Relations.
Anandamath, or The Sacred Brotherhood (sole translator/author; this book contains a full English translation of Bankim Chatterji’s famous 19th-century Bengali novel, with an extensive Introduction and Critical Apparatus, and received the A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation awarded by The South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies in the USA;