Sociology
Junmin Wang
Professor
Phone 901.678.1606 Email junmin.wang@memphis.edu Fax 901.678.2525 Office Clement Hall, Room 229B Office Hours Call for Hours
Dr. Junmin Wang is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Memphis. She earned her PhD from New York University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in China’s political economy at Indiana University, with earlier degrees from Peking University.
Her research and teaching center on economic and organizational sociology, with a focus on development, science and technological change, and gender inequality in China. Her work examines China’s political-economic transformation and global integration, particularly how these processes shape innovation, organizational change, and sustainable development. She has also explored gender inequality in organizational contexts and its implications for China’s technological advancement.
Dr. Wang is the author of State-Market Interactions in China’s Reform Era (Routledge) and has published in leading journals, including Theory and Society, Sociology of Development, Comparative Sociology, and Social Science Quarterly. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation.
She serves in leadership roles in international sociological organizations, including the International Sociological Association, and has contributed to editorial boards in her field. She is currently completing a new book, Path-Detouring: The Long Rise of China’s Techno-Nation, under contract with Oxford University Press.