Min Zhou
Dr. Min Zhou is currently Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies and Director of the Asia Pacific Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is an elected member of the Board of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) and sits on the editorial boards of Annual Review of Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and The International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies. Dr. 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 22 books and more than 240 journal articles and book chapters in these areas, including Chinatown (1992); Growing up American (1998); Contemporary Chinese America (2009); The Accidental Sociologist in Asian American Studies (2011); The Asian American Achievement Paradox (2015), The Rise of the New Second Generation (2016); Contemporary Chinese Diasporas (2017); Beyond Economic Migration (2023); and Crossing Borders, Advancing Scholarship (2026). She was the recipient of the 2017 Distinguished Career Award of the ASA Section on International Migration and the 2020 Contribution to the Field Award of the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America. Previously, Dr. Zhou was the founding chair of the Department of Asian American Studies and the Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in US-China Relations and Communications at UCLA; 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 Sociological Research Association (SRA); president of the North American Chinese Sociologists Association (renamed International Chinese Sociological Association); and 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.