Yingyi Ma is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Asian/Asian American Studies at Syracuse University. Professor Ma is a sociologist of education and migration. She is currently the Provost Faculty Fellow on internationalization at Syracuse University. In 2019, she was selected as a Public Intellectual Fellow at the National Committee on US-China Relations. Her monograph Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education, published in 2020 by Columbia University Press, has won the Best Book Award, Higher Education Special Interest Group, Comparative and International Education Association (2021), and Bourdieu Book Award Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association (2021). She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 2007.
Moderator: Yao Lu, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
This event is part of the 2021-2022 lecture series on “COVID-19 Impacts and Responses in China and Beyond” and is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.