Welcome!

I am a PhD candidate in Sociology at Cornell University, with a minor in Demography. I obtained a master’s degree in Applied Quantitative Research from New York University, and a bachelor’s degree in English and Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University.

I am a quantitative sociologist with research interests in gender, social stratification & mobility, and spatial demography. I adopt a sociological lens to examine how interactions between social institutions produce and sustain inequality across generations and over the life course. Check out more details about the three main lines of my research on gender inequality in labor market outcomes, the geography of stratification & spatial mobility, and inter- & intra-generational social mobility.

My research has been published in Demography, Sociological Methods & Research, and Chinese Journal of Sociology. My work has received several awards, including an ASA Sociology of Population Student Paper Award Honorable Mention, the Kerckhoff Award from the Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28), and best graduate student paper awards from Cornell and NYU. My CV is available here.

You can reach me at hz492@cornell.edu.