Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Renmin University of China, 2022-

University of Virginia, Ph.D., Sociology, 2022.

University of Virginia, M.A., Sociology, 2019.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, M.S., Global China Studies, 2015.

Tianjin Normal University, B.A., Journalism and Communication, 2014.

Social stratification/inequality; sociology of education; higher education; class, race/ethnicity, gender; urban sociology; Asia and Asian America; China; quantitative methods

Referred Journal Articles

Wang, Yapeng, and Josipa Roksa. 2023. “Understanding the Benefits of Parent-Child Discussion: The Role of Students and Teachers.” Chinese Sociological Review . https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2023.2188447

Wu, Yuling, Hong Xiao, Yapeng Wang. 2023. “Changing Socialization Values for Children in China, 1990 - 2012.” Chinese Sociological Review . https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2023.2194016

Roksa, Josipa, Yapeng Wang, David Feldon, and Matthew Ericson. 2022. “Who Is Publishing Journal Articles during Graduate School? Racial and Gender Inequalities in Biological Sciences over Time.” Journal of Diversity in Higher Education 15(1):47–57. doi: 10.1037/dhe0000336.

Wang, Yapeng. 2021. “Closing the Gender Gap in College Attendance: Variation by Family Background in China over Time.” Social Science Research 98:102578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102578.

· Nan Lin Best Student Paper Award, International Chinese Sociological Association, 2021.

· Featured in the Elsevier Editor’s Selection (August 9, 2021)

· Bierstedt Prize / Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, 2019.

Wang, Yapeng. 2021. “Who Benefits More from the College Expansion Policy? Evidence from China.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 71: 100566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2020.100566.

Book Chapters

Roksa, Josipa, Blake R. Silver, and Yapeng Wang. 2022. “Inequality in Higher Education: Sociological Understandings of Student Success.” Pp. 179–207 in How College Students Succeed: Making Meaning Across Disciplinary Perspectives , edited by N. A. Bowman. VA: Stylus Publishing.

Social Stratification and Mobility (undergraduate), Renmin University of China (scheduled for Spring 2024)

Education and Society (undergraduate), Renmin University of China (scheduled for Spring 2024)

Sociology of Education (graduate), Renmin University of China, Fall 2023

Intermediate Statistics (undergraduate), Renmin University of China, Fall 2023