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State University of New York at Albany
Fanling Cheng is a PhD candidate in Sociology at SUNY Albany, with research interests in art, international migration, and urban dynamics. Her dissertation focuses on narratives and strategies in the art market, in which she examines how meanings are constructed for certain art categories and facilitate agency.
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University of British Columbia, Canada
Lily is a cultural sociologist studying empathy in the context of human rights education. Her work looks at how Canadian and international museums and school curricula represent genocides and conflicts, with the goal of providing recommendations for critical and pragmatic human rights education.
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Stockholm University, Sweden
Malcolm Jacobson is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University. His research interests are in collective memory, aging, and subcultures. Drawing on cultural sociology he analyses narratives, visuals, and material culture. His dissertation explores how age is performed through digital memory work. The empirical case regards the negotiation of identities and group boundaries among aging male graffiti writers. Jacobson is also a photographer, author, and book editor who has published several documentary and non-fiction books on art and minorities.
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State University of New York at Albany
Qing Tingting Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at SUNY Albany. Her research interests include migration, globalization, youth culture, race and ethnicity, citizenship, sociological theory, and qualitative research methods. Her Ph.D. dissertation investigates inequality in transnational youth mobilities based on visa status, class, education, gender, race, age, sexual orientation, and nationality. The target population comprises Chinese youths who are currently in or have been in Australia using a working holiday visa. By discussing cosmopolitanism, nationalism, racism, morality, reflexivity, and humanity, this research aims to contribute to a better understanding of cultural identity, integration, and theoretical issues surrounding assimilation, acculturation, multiculturalism, and cultural preservation in the context of globalization and transnational movements. Qing has been serving on the AAAS Social Science Caucus Council as a Social Media Coordinator for over three years. She is also affiliated with the University of Melbourne’s Asian Cultural Research Hub (ACRH). Current CV.
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University of Cambridge, UK
I’m a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. I hold a Bachelor of Architecture from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and a Master’s in Culture and Society from the London School of Economics. I have worked as an architect and journalist and currently write a biweekly opinion column for the Colombian journal El Tiempo.
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 Jane Jia-Yin Wang
State University of New York at Albany
Jane is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at SUNY Albany where she studies membership and identity in the transnational context. Her dissertation looks at how skilled young Chinese queer/women access and practice cosmopolitanism as they traverse nation-state boundaries between China and the U.S. It discusses the premises and obstacles in achieving a sense of belonging and solidarity within and across groups. Additionally, she is a writer in the Chinese news media where she contributes to discussions of gender and body politics. Current CV.
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 Chenyang Xie
Fudan University, China
Chenyang is a cultural sociologist studying the moral construction of economic behavior. Her work looks at how credit transactions among Chinese grassroots merchants evolve from a relational group practice into a local market convention. Her goal is to offer an alternative perspective on cultural autonomy in the value changes occurring during China’s social transformation.
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University of Virginia
Yingyu Zang is a Ph.D. student at the sociology department of the University of Virginia. His research interests broadly lie in cultural sociology and social theory. His work on cultural currents among Gen Z explores the intertwining relationship of cultural symbols and self/subjects in modern societies. In this chain, language functions as our agent sent to the world, then thrown back to ourselves by the big other, constitutes the foundation of self. His efforts in research interrogate “who we really are” beneath the claim of “who we are” in everyday life.
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