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Qian He is the Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was previously a postdoctoral research associate at the Center on Contemporary China at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, an M.A. in Sociology from Columbia University, and a B.Soc.Sc. in Economics (with highest academic honors) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Her research spans international and internal migration, social stratification, culture, social psychology, and contemporary China. In U.S.-focused studies, she examines immigrants’ socioeconomic integration, highlighting disparities tied to cultural norms, national origin, citizenship status, and race/ethnicity. Her work on U.S.–China relations demonstrates how international geopolitical tensions shape public perceptions and the treatment of individuals of East Asian descent in America. Another strand of her research on contemporary China investigates the multifaceted social consequences of internal migration and the links between intergroup relations and socioeconomic inequalities.
She primarily studies the United States and China. Her work has appeared in leading journals including Child Development, International Migration Review, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Social Forces, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science Research, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). For more information about her recent work, please visit her website.
- Social Stratification
- Migration
- Contemporary Chinese Society
- Quantitative Methods
He, Q. (Forthcoming). Less than citizens: Varieties of workplace marginalization of immigrants to the US. Social Forces. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf145
He, Q., Gerber, T. P., & Xie, Y. (2024). Restoring culture and capital to cultural capital: Origin–destination cultural distance and immigrant earnings in the United States. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(16), 4041–4069. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2266149
Xie, Y., Lin, X., Li, J., He, Q., & Huang, J. (2023). Caught in the crossfire: Fears of Chinese–American scientists. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(27), e2216248120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2216248120
He, Q., & Xie, Y. (2022). The moral filter of patriotic prejudice: How Americans view Chinese in the COVID-19 era. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(47), e2212183119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2212183119
He, Q., & Xie, Y. (2022). Economic inequalities in contemporary rural China: How does political capital matter? Social Science Research, 105, 102724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102724
He, Q., Zhang, Z., & Xie, Y. (2022). The impact of COVID-19 on Americans’ attitudes toward China: Does local incidence rate matter? Social Psychology Quarterly, 85(1), 84–107. https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725211072773
Gerber, T. P., & He, Q. (2022). Sino-phobia in Russia and Kyrgyzstan. Journal of Contemporary China, 31(133), 38–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2021.1926090
He, Q., & Gerber, T. P. (2020). Origin-country culture, migration sequencing, and female employment: Variations among immigrant women in the United States. International Migration Review, 54(1), 233–261. https://doi.org/10.1177/0197918318821651
Lu, Y., He, Q., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2020). Diverse experience of immigrant children: How do separation and reunification shape their development? Child Development, 91(1), e146–e163. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13171
- SOCI 3243 Generalized Experimental Methods for Social Research (Undergraduate)
- SOCI 1002 Approaching Sociology (Undergraduate)
- SOCI 5643 Doing Class in Everyday Life (Graduate)