Sociology Department
Zai Liang
Professor
Expertise: Migration/Immigration, Demography, China
Contact Info:
- zliang@albany.edu
- Office: 303 Arts & Sciences Building
- Phone: (518) 442-4676
- Mailing Address:
- 1400 Washington Ave.
Arts & Sciences 351
University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Education
- 1992 Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago
- 1988 M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago
- 1983 B.A., Mathematics, Jilin University, China
Recent Research Projects
- China International Migration Project -- The major goals of this project are to conduct a survey of international migrants in China's Fujian province and to involve undergraduate students in research.
- Complex Interactions among Policies, People, and Panda Habitat in the Wolong Nature Reserve Landscape -- The major goals of this project are to assess interactions among three policies and local people, to evaluate relationships between local people and panda habitat, to examine the need for feasibility of policy modification and improvement, and to model and simulate multi-scale interactions among policies, people and panda habitat across space and time.
- Interrelationships between Population and Environment -- The major goals of this project are to examine the relationships between fuelwood consumption and household demography and to understand population processes and dynamics.
- Market Transition and Migration in China -- The major goals of this project are to measure patterns of migration in China transition and migration networks.
Research Interests
- Internal and International Migration
- Social Demography
- Consequences of Market Transition in China
- Race and Ethnic Relations
- Sociological Methodology
Courses Taught
- SOCuuu: Social Statistics
- SOCuuu: Methods of Social Research
- SOCuuu: Ethnicity and Immigration
- SOCuuu: Ethnic Idenity
- SOCuuu: Special Topics on Intermarriage
- SOCggg: Population and Development
- SOCggg: Introduction to Demography
- SOCggg: Event History Analysis
- SOCggg: Statistics I
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