{"id":3050,"date":"2022-06-24T13:45:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T17:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=3050"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:24:22","slug":"leping-wang","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/profile\/leping-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"Leping Wang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>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&#8217;s research and publications, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/profile\/leping-wang\/\">her webpage<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During the Spring of 2023, Wang was awarded funding to travel to the American Sociological Association\u2019s Annual Meeting and The Society for the Study of Social Problems\u2019 Annual Meeting this August in Philadelphia. She will be presenting her co-authored work titled \u201c<i>Authors of their Own Adversity: Dutch and American Non-Racists, Racists, Ambivalent Racists, and Inequality Beliefs<\/i>\u201d 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 \u201c<i>Unpacking Merit, Fit, and Diversity: A Multi-faceted Framework to Academic Gatekeeping<\/i>\u201d 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. <span class=\"x_Apple-converted-space x_ContentPasted0\">Learn more in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/2023\/05\/05\/ciss-announces-23-faculty-and-graduate-student-small-grant-recipients\/\">featured article<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11707,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11707"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14271,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3050\/revisions\/14271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}