Dr. Yu Xie

Biography

Yu Xie is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor at Princeton University, specializing in sociology with a focus on social stratification, demography, statistical methods, and Chinese studies. He joined the faculty at Princeton in 2015 after 26 years at the University of Michigan, where he held the position of Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor and was a research professor at the Population Studies Center within the Institute for Social Research. Xie has made significant contributions to sociology and is recognized as a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Academia Sinica. His notable publications include 'Marriage and Cohabitation' (University of Chicago Press, 2007), 'Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis' (Emerald, 2008), and 'American Science: Decline?' (Harvard University Press, 2012). He has earned his bachelor's degree from Shanghai University of Technology and both his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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