Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2013 – 2020
PhD in Sociology, the Graduate Center, City University of New York (New York, NY)
2012 – 2013
M.A. in Sociology, Columbia University (New York, NY)
2008 – 2012
B.A. in Sociology, Fudan University (Shanghai, China)
EMPLOYMENT
2023 –
Research Fellow, Department of ‘Anthropology of Economic Experimentation,’ Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
2022 – 2023
Postdoctoral Fellow of Social Science at the Center for Applied Social and Economic Research, NYU Shanghai
2021 – 2022
Postdoctoral Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society, NYU Shanghai
2020 – 2021
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Ethics, Law, and Politics, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
TEACHING
2021 – 22
Course Instructor, Global Perspectives on Society (mandatory course for freshmen), NYU Shanghai
Course: AFR357H1F The Geopolitics and Debates on Africa-China Economic Relations
2014 -2017, 2018-2019
Course Instructor, Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Course: Mass Communication (2014), Introduction to Sociology (2015-2017), Urban Sociology (2018-2019)
2018
Speaker, “Participatory Pedagogy and Connecting Classrooms to Student Backgrounds,” Academic Center For Excellence in Research and Teaching (ACERT) Lunchtime Seminar, Hunter College, October 11. https://acert.hunter.cuny.edu/blog/participatory-pedagogy-and-connecting-classrooms/2018/10/30/
2018
Organizer and Speaker, “Classrooms and Social Justice: Why Start with Pedagogy?” Futures Initiative “University Worth Fighting For” Workshop, September 12; “Community College and the Future of the Humanities” Conference, October 18.
2017 - 2018
Writing Across Curriculum Fellow, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York
Intense training on WAC pedagogy through weekly discussion and practices; shadowed two courses, and certified to teach writing-intensive course
AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2022
Open Topic Grants of Urban Studies 2022, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Design and Urban Science, PI of “Young Professional-Led Community Building and Urban Regeneration in the Post-pandemic City.”
2018 - 2020
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholar, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2018-2020.
2018 – 2020
Futures Initiative Graduate Fellowship, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2018-2020.
2017, 2019
Doctoral Student Research Grant, the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
2017
Finalist, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards, National Science Foundation.
2015 - 2016
Professional Staff Congress-CUNY Grant with Prof. Mary Clare Lennon for “Anger, Hope and the DREAM Act.”
2015
Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) Research Praxis Award, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, with a concentration on immigration.
2014
Diversity Project Development Fund on Immigration, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, Immigration Working Group, Grant for short video shooting, “Uptown and Downtown Chinese Immigrants in NYC.”
2014
Graduate Center-Humboldt University Summer Seminar Fellowship, “Inequalities and Segregation in Urban Settings: A Comparative Perspective.”
2013 – 2018
Graduate Center Fellowship, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, Five-Year Comprehensive scholarship.
2013
Travel Grant, “Non-Government Organization, Market and the State,” Fourth International Summer School on China Studies, hosted by Johns Hopkins University - Nanjing University Centre for Chinese and American Studies
SERVICE
2023 – 2024
Postdoctoral Representative, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
2022 – 2023
Associate Editor, Chinese Sociological Review
2022 – 2023
Assistant Editor, Journal of International Students
2021 – 2022
Initiator and Organizer, Max Planck Law Network “China, Law, and Society” Initiative
Peer Reviews for Chinese Sociological Review; Comparative Migration Studies; Diaspora Studies; Families, Relationships and Societies; Global Networks; Journal for Ethnic and Migration Studies; Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion; Public Opinion Quarterly; Social Science & Medicine; The Journal of Chinese Sociology