Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice

Xiaozhou Wang 907 Oswald Tower Department of Sociology The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 Office Phone: 814-865-4565 Email: xzw108@psu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, Sociology and Demography, expected 2010
M.Sc., University of Ottawa,2006
B.Sc., Nankai University, Statistics, 2004

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Immigration and Migration, Inequality, Mathematical Demography, Statistical Methods, China

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Travel Grant, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University, 2007
Entrance Fellowship of the Demography Program, Penn State University, 2006-2007

RESEARCH aND TEACHING ASSISTANT EXPERIENCE

2008-Present, Research Assistant to Emily Greenman at Penn State University

2006-2008     Research Assistant to Marylee Taylor at Penn State University

2006-2008     Teaching assistant to Marylee Taylor at Penn State University

2006-2007     Teaching assistant to Sal Oropesa at Penn State University

2004-2006     Research assistant to Charles Castonguay at University of Ottawa                 

PROFESSIONAL pRESENTATIONS

2006

Xiaozhou Wang and Charles Castonguay, “Mother tongue shift in Canadian Census language data”, presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Population Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2006

2005

Charles Castonguay, Geng Zang and Xiaozhou Wang, “Comparability Problems in the 2001 Census Language Data”, presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Population Society, London, Ontario, Canada.