Min Zhou

Min Zhou is Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.-China Relations & Communications, and Director of the Asia Pacific Center, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a fellow of the American Academic of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Her scholarship is in the areas of migration and development, race and ethnicity, entrepreneurship, refugee studies, Chinese and Asian diasporas, and the sociology of Asia and Asian America. Zhou has published 21 books and more than 230 journal articles and book chapters. She is the author of Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave; Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation; and The Accidental Sociologist in Asian American Studies; editor of Contemporary Chinese Diasporas; and co-author and co-editor of many other publications. Zhou holds visiting Professorships in several major universities in China, including Sun Yat-sen University, Zhejiang University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Lishui College, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Lingnan University Hong Kong.