JUNRONG SHENG
Education
May 2021 - May 2025
August 2019 - May 2021
September 2015 - June 2019
Ph.D. candidate, Sociology, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA
Current committee members: Elizabeth McClintock (chair), Abigail Ocobock, Terence McDonnell, Lyn Spillman, Yingchun Ji
Minor: Quantitative research method
MA, Sociology, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA
BA, Sociology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Selected Publications
Sheng. (2022). Unveiling Gender Discourse in the State Patriarchy—An Investigation of Cultural Strategies in the Women’s Magazine in Maoist China. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-022-09438-7
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Duan, & Sheng, J. (2018). How can environmental knowledge transfer into pro-environmental behavior among Chinese individuals? Environmental pollution perception matters. Journal of Public Health, 26(3), 289–300. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-017-0873-5
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Sheng, in-progress, "Reduced housework, persistent Inequality: How do extended families allow men to evade housework participation in China?"
Teaching Experience
2024 Teaching assistant for Unlocking social puzzles with data--Digital tools for sociologists
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Instructed one lecture: Working with Geospatial Data
2023 Teaching assistant for Marriage and Family
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Instructed three lectures: Immigration and Family, Fatherhood, and Motherhood
2022 Instructor for Graduate-Level Categorical Data Analysis Lab​
2022 Teaching Assistant for Categorical Data Analysis
2021 Teaching Assistant for Social Network
2021 Teaching Assistant for Marriage and Family
Teaching materials for lecture names in magenta are available. Please contact me to access links for teaching materials.
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Awards & Fundings
2022 Liu Institute Research Award with 1500 dollars. Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, University of Notre Dame
2022 Graduate Student Research Award with 2810.96 dollars. Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame
2021 Jeanine Becker Award for Graduate Student Papers with 200 dollars bonus. Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame
2018 Yugang & Songxiao Scholarship with 3000 dollars bonus. Wuhan University
2017 Second Prize, Individual Competition and Team Competition. Second Sociological Knowledge Competition in Central China,
Hubei Provincial of Sociological Society & Department of Sociology, Wuhan University
2017 First Class Scholarship with 500 dollars bonus. Communist Youth League Committee, Wuhan University
2017 Bluemoon Scholarship with 800 dollars bonus. Wuhan University
2016 First Class Scholarship with 500 dollars bonus. Communist Youth League Committee, Wuhan University
2016 Bluemoon Scholarship with 600 dollars bonus. Wuhan University