Yige is pronounced /YEE-guh/. (audio)

I am Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Gender & Sexuality Studies at University at Buffalo, SUNY.

My research interests include political economy, labor, gender relations, contentious politics, and comparative-historical methods. (Google Scholar profile)

I hold a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Johns Hopkins University, an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong. Before joining Buffalo, I was the Suzanne Wilson Barnett Chair in Contemporary China Studies and Assistant Professor in International Political Economy at the University of Puget Sound (2019-2020).

I am working on a book project, “The Fabric of Care: Women’s Work and the Politics of Livelihood in a Chinese Mill Town,” which examines China’s century-long transformation of care politics among industrial workers amid the country’s waves of industrialization, revolution, and globalization.

My research has received a number of awards and fellowships including:

• Distinguished Scholarly Article Award, Section on Labor & Labor Movements, American Sociological Association, 2023
• Outstanding Article Award, Section on Marxist Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2023
• Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies Early Career Fellowships, American Council of Learned Societies, 2021-22
• Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, The University of Toronto, 2019-2020 (awarded & declined)
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship in Women’s Studies ,The Woodrow Wilson National Foundation, 2018-2019
• Rose Laub Coser Dissertation Proposal Award, Eastern Sociological Society, 2018
• Best Graduate Student Paper Prize, Association for Asian Studies, 2015

My general interests in social and political issues have led to numerous publications on both scholarly and public platforms including Critical Sociology, International Review of Social History, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, American Quarterly, Critical Asian Studies, Modern China, Made in China Journal, Tsinghua Sociological Review (清華社會學評論), The Initium (端傳媒), The Paper (澎湃), The Intellectual (知識份子), etc.

I can be reached at yigedong [at] buffalo.edu

Twitter handle: yige_dong