Dr. Lisa Sun-Hee Park is Professor and Chair of the Asian American Studies Department at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the politics of migration, race, and social policy. Her work examines the ways in which immigrants and communities of color are not only excluded from the rights and protections of […]

Originally from Việt Nam, Yến Lê Espiritu is Distinguished Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of California, San Diego. An award-winning author, she has published extensively on Asian American panethnicity, gender and migration, and U.S. colonialism and wars in Asia. Her most recent book, Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) (UC Press, 2014) […]

Min Zhou is a Chinese-born American sociologist. Zhou completed a bachelor’s degree in English at Sun Yat-sen University in 1982, and became a lecturer at her alma mater until 1984, when she began graduate study. She enrolled at the State University of New York at Albany, earning a master of arts and doctorate in sociology […]

Pun Ngai is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD from University of London, SOAS in 1998. She is the winner of 2006 C. Wright Mills Award for her book, “Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace” (Duke University Press, 2005). […]

Michael Omi is the co-author of Racial Formation in the United States, a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place.  The 3rd edition of the book was released in 2015. Since 1995, he has been the co-editor of the book series […]

Dr. Unnithan is a Professor of Sociology at CSU. He was born and brought up in Malaysia, completed Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Criminology and Forensic Science in India and received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  He has been a faculty member at Colorado State University since 1987.  In 2019, the […]

Yu Xie is Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Sociology and has a faculty appointment at the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies, Princeton University. He is also a Visiting Chair Professor of the Center for Social Research, Peking University. His main areas of interest are social stratification, demography, statistical methods, Chinese studies, […]

Professor Kim is a Jackson Baur Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas. He is specialized in the areas of stratification, work and organizations, race and ethnicity, Asian American studies, Korea studies, and quantitative methodology. The common concern of his research is to contribute to the generation of the critical knowledge and information that […]

Dr. Jeffrey Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Criminology at the University of Denver. His research interests include crime, corrections, inequality, media coverage, and quantitative methods. Professor Lin focuses on the complex interactions between institutions and individuals in the criminal justice system. In particular, Professor Lin is interested in the […]

“I am a sociologist with interests in gender and feminist theory, postcolonial sociology and the emerging middle classes.  My site of research is India.  My interest in gender is fundamental to my work as a scholar, even as how I study gender has continually evolved. Here’s a brief description of my areas of work: Social Movements: […]

“I earned my PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Over the past six decades, UC Berkeley’s Department of Sociology has consistently ranked among the sociology departments in the world. Currently, I am a Full Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. I am one of only a small handful […]

Nan Lin‘s main research interests are social networks and social capital, the life stress process (especially social support as resources), social stratification and mobility, and Chinese societies. Current Appointments & Affiliations Oscar L. Tang Family Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 Education, […]

Dr. Joon K. Kim is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and a faculty associate in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University. His research interests include Political Economy of Labor, Immigration, and Race in Asia and the U.S.; Multiculturalism and Diversity; Labor Migration and Civil Society. Since joining CSU faculty in […]

“I continue to work on a book length project entitled Foundational Violence:  U.S. Settler Colonial Articulations of Racialized and Gendered Citizenship.  This project builds on and expands ideas developed in my 2015 article in the inaugural issue of the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.  It takes the settler colonial origins of the U.S. seriously as foundational to […]

Kimberly Kay Hoang is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the College and the Director of Global Studies at the University of Chicago. She is an award winning scholar, author, and teacher. She received the 2020 Lewis A Coser Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Sociological Theory— a mid-career award for Theoretical Agenda […]