Lingnan Fellow

Professor Min ZHOU

Professor Min Zhou is an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (NAS) and an academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S). She is currently Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies (founding chair of the Department of Asian American Studies), Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in US-China Relations and Communications, Director of the Asia Pacific Center, and member of the Academic Senate Academic Personnel Council (CAP) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is an elected member of the Executive Committee of Sociological Research Association (SRA) and the Board of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO). She also sits on the editorial boards of Annual Review of Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Migration, and The International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies. Previously, she was the Tan Lark Sye Chair Professor, head of the Sociology Division, and director of the Chinese Heritage Centre at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Chinese Overseas; president of the North American Chinese Sociologists Association; elected member of Council of the American Sociological Association (ASA), elected chair of the ASA Section on International Migration, and elected chair of the ASA section on Asia and Asian America.

Professor Zhou’s main research areas are in migration & development, race and ethnicity, the new second generation, Chinese diasporas, the sociology of Asia and Asian America, and urban sociology. She has published 20 books and more than 230 journal articles and book chapters in these areas, including Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave (1992), Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (with Bankston, 1998); Contemporary Chinese America (2009), The Accidental Sociologist in Asian American Studies (2011), The Asian American Achievement Paradox (with Lee, 2015), The Rise of the New Second Generation (with Bankston, 2016), Contemporary Chinese Diasporas (ed., 2017), Forever Strangers? Contemporary Chinese Immigrants around the World (ed., 2021, in traditional Chinese), and Beyond Economic Migration: Historical, Social, and Political Factors in US Immigration (eds., with Mahmud, 2023).