Event
Breakfast Conversation With Dr. Yingyi Ma
Event Speaker
Yingyi Ma
Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University
PSC 4th Floor Commons (McNeil Building) 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA
The Office of Academic Excellence and Engagement in the School of Arts & Sciences invites you to join us for breakfast and welcome Dr. Yingyi Ma, as she shares insights from her book Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education, winner of 2021 Best Book Award, Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education Special Interest Group.
Featured Speaker
Yingyi Ma is a professor of Sociology and director of the Asian/Asian American studies program. She received a Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 2007. Ma’s research addresses education and migration in the U.S. and China and she has published three books and numerous articles. Several projects use quantitative methods and examine fields of study often neglected in the context of education stratification, particularly how those fields provide a mobility strategy for racial minorities, the children of immigrants, and their families in the U.S. This line of research has received grants from the National Science Foundation, Alfred Sloan Foundation and the Association of Institutional Research.