Yingyi Ma

Director of Asian/Asian American Studies
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Degree

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2006

Specialties

Education, Migration, Asian/Asian American Studies

Courses

Fall 2018

SOC/WGS 305.002 Sociology of Sex & Gender, MoWe 12:45-2:05, Crouse-Hinds 020

Biography

Yingyi Ma is an Associate Professor of Sociology and a Senior Research Associate in the Center for Policy Research. Professor Ma is also the Director of Asian/Asian American Studies. She is a sociologist of education and migration. Her current research examines international student mobility, Asian international students in the United States and the surge of Chinese international students in American Universities. She is currently writing a book titled “Study in the U.S: The New Education Gospel in China” to be published by Columbia University Press. Her earlier work focused on who studied in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields and why, including the formation of aspirations, college major choice, and degree attainment in STEM fields. That line of research has received grants from National Science Foundation, Alfred Sloan Foundation, and Association of Institutional Research. Yingyi received her Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 2006.  Full Biography

Publications

Books / Selected Papers

Research Grants and Awards

“Entry and Degree Attainment in STEM: The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Gender,” Association for Institutional Research. June 2013-May 2015.