Leping Wang

Leping Wang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology. She is invested in leveraging statistical models and mixed methods to inquire into the broad subject of social inequality and stratification, particularly in education, health, occupation, and race and ethnicity. To learn more about Wang’s research and publications, visit her webpage.

During the Spring of 2023, Wang was awarded funding to travel to the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting and The Society for the Study of Social Problems’ Annual Meeting this August in Philadelphia. She will be presenting her co-authored work titled “Authors of their Own Adversity: Dutch and American Non-Racists, Racists, Ambivalent Racists, and Inequality Beliefs” at ASA, which examines the demographic profiles of cultural and blatant racists, non-racists, and ambivalent racists, and how racial beliefs maps onto beliefs about inequality; her single-authored work titled “Unpacking Merit, Fit, and Diversity: A Multi-faceted Framework to Academic Gatekeeping” at SSSP, which examines how merit, fit and diversity are evaluated jointly in junior faculty search and how inequality is produced; and serving as the presider for the Social Networks regular session at ASA. Learn more in our featured article.