We're hiring an outstanding Assistant Professor whose core research is in the field of cultural sociology with demonstrable expertise in the sociology of #culture and #technology.
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Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.
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New study by @weirongguo.bsky.social challenges the idea of cosmopolitanism as just elite privilege. Drawing on interviews w/ 60 Chinese international students, it reveals activist & cynical formsโshaped by adversity, education, community. https://loom.ly/DEH5m-s
New publication! ๐จ How do church leaders foster commitment + preserve organizational vitality in the face of crisis?
"There Wasn't A Playbook For This: Local Congregations and the Crises of 2020," out today in Sociology of Religion, offers insight from MN academic.oup.com/socrel/advan...
Share your Story: Research on Immigrant Family Businesses Did you grow up working in your family's motel, gas station, store, or other business? This study explores how those early experiences shape the lives and careers of children of Gujarati immigrant business owners. Who can participate? โข Adults who identify as children of Gujarati immigrant business owners What's involved? โข A 1-2 hour confidential intervew over Zoom โข Receive a $10 Amazon gift card Why join? โข Your story matters, help highlight the unique experiences of our South Asian community Interested? Have questions? Contact: Kajal Patel, Ph.D. Candidate Email: klucpatel@gmail.com
Please spread the word! ๐ข
My PhD student Kajal Patel is recruiting interviewees for her dissertation research on the children of Gujarati immigrant families.
If you grew up helping in your familyโs business, please share your stories with Kajal: ๐ง klucpatel@gmail.com
Thank you, Yanze! They all came out coincidentally around the same time haha
It argues instead that cultivating cosmopolitan practices is crucial to resisting nationalism and building solidarities across borders.
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Both reflect migrant studentsโ struggles with discrimination, mobility, and gendered adversity, with consequences for mental health.
By showing how cosmopolitanism can be practiced deliberatelyโor forced as adaptationโthis study challenges the idea that global citizenship is only about privilege.
Drawing on interviews with 60 Chinese international students in the U.S., I identify two pathways:
๐คActivist cosmopolitanism: grounded in moral engagement and collective action.
โ๏ธCynical cosmopolitanism: marked by skepticism, detachment, and individual coping.
๐What does it mean to be a global citizen in an age of polarization?
๐My new article in Social Problems reconceptualizes cosmopolitanismโnot as elite privilege, but as an everyday practice shaped by ethics, emotions, and inequality.
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Congrats, Daniel!!
Take action for international students! Proposed DHS rule eliminating Duration of Status is detrimental for international students. Submit public comment (naming Docket No. ICEB-2025-0001) before 11:59 pm EDT, Sept. 29: https://bit.ly/3KoPB0w. Context: https://bit.ly/42nbq6Y.
Mark your calendar: Sept 23, I'll give a talk at U Michigan (zoom and in-person) on "Meanings of Zero: the Performative Logic of China's Zero-COVID Policy." This study is part of my ongoing book on disaster politics in China & a stand-alone article. Looking forward!
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Iโve recently started as the Research Coordinator for the @aaas-socsci.bsky.social , and weโre looking for volunteers to serve on the selection committee for either the Outstanding Graduate Student / Faculty Research Award.
If youโre interested, please feel free to reach out at tliu20@albany.edu.
The AAAS SocSci Caucus is pleased to announce a call for nominations for three article awards: Outstanding Graduate Student Research Article, Outstanding Emerging Scholar Research Article, and Outstanding Tenured Faculty Research Article.
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Why do many Chinese students avoid politics in the US despite more freedom? New research by Weirong Guo shows students use 3 major avoidance strategies to navigate different political taboosโshaped by both their experiences in China and pressures in the US. https://loom.ly/4NS3D1s
My new open-access article in the British Journal of Sociology explores how Korean queer activists envision and enact social change by rethinking โthe globalโโshifting from UN human rights frameworks to regional solidarities across Asia.
Instead, I show how political avoidance emerges across regimes, shaped not only by regime type but by the structure of political taboosโwhether centralized or dispersed, shifting or defined, state-imposed or socially enforced.
In Chinaโs forbidden zone, state-imposed taboos foster habitual avoidance; in the U.S. landmine zone, decentralized and socially enforced taboos push students to adopt new evasive tactics. The study challenges the assumption that authoritarianism and democracy produce opposite political behaviors.
The study asks why migrants from authoritarian countries often continue to avoid politics after moving to democratic contexts. Drawing on interviews with Chinese students in the U.S. and China, I identify three strategies of avoidance: pragmatic disengagement, veiled allegiance, & closeted activism.
Excited to share that a chapter from my dissertation on political avoidance among migrants has just been published in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s.... Iโve had the honor of receiving tremendously helpful feedback from many people and engaging with the work of many scholars I deeply admire.
Pleased to announce that my paper "Sacred ordinariness: event, cultural codes, and the politics of a COVID pandemic icon" (on symbolic politics around the death and mourning of Dr. Li Wenliang, an "icon of ordinariness") was published in AJCS. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
โ๏ธ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Please consider leaving a comment on www.regulations.gov/document/ICE.... If this is passed, it will have a devastating impact on international students, esp. those in STEM, as they will basically have to return home and renew their visa every single year and face more scrutiny and uncertainty.
But good news is you can leave a comment at www.regulations.gov/document/ICE... and support your international colleagues by expressing your concerns of this ICEB-2025-0001 docket.
A book party of Asian American first-time authors. Weโll demystify the publishing process and create a space for solidarity. Writing and publishing is never just about research but navigating marginalization, visibility, and voice. Seats with lunch are limited to the First 50 RSVP: shorturl.at/SFuxF
Glad to share my review essay โChanging China in Sociological Eyesโ (AJS, July 2025). It reviews three recent books, while urging historicizing Chinaโs reform and discussing the relationship between area studies and sociology. Iโd love to hear your thoughts!
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Reposting this Call for Contributions to an edited volume. Deadline for abstracts: Sept 1, 2025
#ERSNew๐ฃ๐ How do class & host-country context shape young #ChineseMigrantsโ views on #racism? This study compares #F-1 students in the U.S. & #WorkingHolidayMakers in Australia. Article by Guo Weirong & Qing Tingting Liu: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2519807
Link to the online article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
