Hongwei Xu

Hongwei Xu is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College – CUNY. He is a sociologist and demographer by training and received his BA from the Department of Sociology at Peking University in 2003. After college he started his first job as a marketing manager at Hainan Airlines. Two years later, he decided to go to the academic world and applied for graduate school in the U.S. He received his PhD from the Department of Sociology at Brown University in 2012 and started his second job as a research fellow at the Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan from 2011 to 2014. He held a position as assistant research professor at ISR from 2014 to 2018.