Super interesting article by Lingxiao Chen (PhD candidate at Emory Sociology), a rising star in political culture and nationalism! This study is an extraordinary exemplar of mixed-methods research. Highly recommended to everyone! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Performing Nationalism: Celebrity Politics and Audience Boundary Work Under Authoritarianism - Lingxiao Chen, 2026

How do citizens in authoritarian contexts interpret nationalist messages embedded in everyday life? While research shows that nationalism is reproduced through ...

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It’s truly an honor to be among the scholars I admire. Please join us for the important conversation this Thursday! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ccl-cultur...

A reminder to save the date for our first Research Showcase! This event will feature two emerging scholars presenting their new research to the Caucus community. The Showcase will be held on 3/27 from 12-1:20pm ET/9-10:20 PT. See the flyer for the zoom link. We appreciate your participation!

Save the Date and RSVP! The Caucus' business meeting is scheduled for 11:20am-12:20pm HST on Thursday, April 2, 2026 at Iolani III in the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort. The business meeting is open to all conference attendees.

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. 📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025. ➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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 forms—shaped by adversity, education, community. https://loom.ly/DEH5m-s

New publication! 🚨 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...

“There Wasn’t A Playbook For This”: Local Congregations and the Crises of 2020

Abstract. Using 18 months of immersive ethnographic fieldwork in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, this paper highlights how religious congregations made se

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Please spread the word! 📢 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 family’s business, please share your stories with Kajal: 📧 klucpatel@gmail.com

🌎What does it mean to be a global citizen in an age of polarization? 📄My new article in Social Problems reconceptualizes cosmopolitanism—not as elite privilege, but as an everyday practice shaped by ethics, emotions, and inequality. doi.org/10.1093/socp...

From engagement to detachment: divergent cosmopolitanisms among transnational Chinese students

ABSTRACT. What does it mean to be cosmopolitan, or a global citizen? Often perceived as a privileged state of cultural consumption and mobility, cosmopolit

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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! events.umich.edu/event/137321...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Meanings of Zero: The Performative Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy | Happening @ Michigan

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有幸接受了端传媒记者的采访，聊了聊夹在中美之间的中国留学生的困境。原以为是十分钟的采访，没想到聊了两个多小时，真的有太多可分享（和抱怨）的了…相信这篇报导说出了许多留学生的心声，订阅了端传媒的朋友可以点击此链接阅读：https://theinitium.com/article/20250910-mainland-chinese-students-as-the-perpetual-foreigner

「永恆的外國人」：中美對抗下遭遇雙重質疑的中國留學生 | 端傳媒 Initium Media

馮宇豪自嘲自己的經歷似乎像一個間諜苗子，「可是正常人誰願意做間諜？」

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I’ve recently started as the Research Coordinator for the @aaas-socsci.bsky.social , and we’re looking for volunteers to serve on the selection committee for either the Outstanding Graduate Student / Faculty Research Award. If you’re 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.

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 taboos—shaped 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 “the global”—shifting from UN human rights frameworks to regional solidarities across Asia.

Decolonizing the Global: Contested Cosmopolitanisms in Global Queer Activism

In the last decade, the “decolonial turn” has gained prominence across academic disciplines, challenging inherent Eurocentric knowledge paradigms. Extending these conversations, this paper critically....

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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.... I’ve had the honor of receiving tremendously helpful feedback from many people and engaging with the work of many scholars I deeply admire.

Echoes of silence: how student migrants navigate political taboos across borders

Abstract. People migrate from authoritarian to democratic regimes seeking greater freedom of expression, yet many continue to avoid politics in their host

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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...

Sacred ordinariness: event, cultural codes, and the politics of a COVID pandemic icon - American Journal of Cultural Sociology

Iconic figures are social and cultural constructions that are usually believed to represent the sacred and/or the extraordinary, but scholars have paid less attention to “ordinary icons,” those figure...

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✍️ 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.

Ruiyi Li@ruiyili.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This Proposed Rule does more harm than this. 1) it shortens the grace period from 60 days to 30 days for intel students to find a job. 2) it forbids students who earned higher level degrees to enroll in a lower level one. 3) prohibiting changing programs for students pursuing grad degrees. And more

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.

Ruiyi Li@ruiyili.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This Proposed Rule does more harm than this. 1) it shortens the grace period from 60 days to 30 days for intel students to find a job. 2) it forbids students who earned higher level degrees to enroll in a lower level one. 3) prohibiting changing programs for students pursuing grad degrees. And more

A book party of Asian American first-time authors. We’ll 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 “Changing China in Sociological Eyes” (AJS, July 2025). It reviews three recent books, while urging historicizing China’s reform and discussing the relationship between area studies and sociology. I’d love to hear your thoughts! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Changing China in Sociological Eyes The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China. By Ya-Wen Lei. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 368. $120.00 (cloth); $...

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Reposting this Call for Contributions to an edited volume. Deadline for abstracts: Sept 1, 2025

Bin Xu. Emory University@binxu013.bsky.social · last yr.

Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China Bin Xu (Emory) Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt) Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley) Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...

#ERSNew🐣🔓 How do class & host-country context shape young #ChineseMigrants’ 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

4. Call for Papers: Ethnographic Knowledge Production under American Authoritarianism (Journal for the Anthropology of North America). Special Issue Co-editors: Xitlalli Alvarez-Amendariz, Denise Brennan, & Elizabeth Rubio. Deadline: September 30, 2025. Contact: elizabeth.h.rubio@ucr.edu.

3. Call for Papers: CUNY Forum Vol 12. The Asian American / Asian Research Institute is currently accepting submissions for its academic journal, CUNY Forum Volume 12, scheduled for print in Winter 2026. The submission deadline is Monday, June 30, 2025. More info here: aaari.info/cunyforumsub...

🎯Reminder: SER Café! 🕒Join us on Friday, June 27 at 8AM PDT / 11AM EDT / 5PM CET via Zoom. Featuring #SER author Robert Manduca, discussing his article, “Should Social Insurance Programs Count as Wealth? Augmented Wealth in Research and Policy.” 👉Register now! umich.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We live in a time where migrants' mobility can no longer be taken for granted, and my new article in Social Forces examines how mobility restrictions create "linked immobility" that affects entire transnational family networks. Here is the link (open access): academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Confronting linked immobility: how Chinese migrants managed family crisis during a global catastrophe

Abstract. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 51 Chinese migrants who live in the US but strive to support frail parents back home, this article analyze

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New publication 🚨 Qing and I did a comparative study of Chinese #F-1 students in the U.S. & #WorkingHolidayMakers in Australia and found divergent responses to #racism , shaped by their pre-migration class positions and host-country contexts. @ersjournal.com

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@weirongguo.bsky.social and I are excited to share our latest publication in Ethnic and Racial Studies: "Privilege or marginalization: how Chinese youth from divergent class backgrounds make sense of racism in the U.S. and Australia." 🔗：https://lnkd.in/e94yeAki