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Junrong Sheng

Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology

University of Notre Dame

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

Research Projects

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

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

Sheng, in-progress, "Self-empowering discourses, disempowering outcomes: How do women understand the unequal division of household practices in China?"

Teaching Experience 

2023    Teaching assistant for Marriage and Family Class

  • Instructed three lectures: Immigration and Family, Fatherhood, and Motherhood

2022     Instructor for Graduate-Level Categorical Data Analysis Lab Class​

2022     Teaching Assistant for Categorical Data Analysis Class

2021     Teaching Assistant for Social Network Class

2021     Teaching Assistant for Marriage and Family Class

Please contact me to access links for teaching materials.

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

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