Dr. Junmin Wang is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Memphis. Dr. Wang received her Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University and held a one-year post-doctoral fellowship in China’s political economy at Indiana University at Bloomington. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from Peking University, China.
Dr. Wang’s research and teaching interests include economic sociology, organizational sociology, sociology of development and technological change, gender and entrepreneurship, and comparative/global sociology. Her current research projects examine: (1) China’s interactions with global processes and how they give rise to China’s organizational and institutional changes; (2) China’s ongoing political-economic transition and how it shapes China’s sustainable development and innovation; and (3) Gender inequality in China’s organizational domains and its implications for China’s innovative prospects. Wang published a book entitled State-Market Interactions in China’s Reform Era: Local State Competition and Global Market Building in the Tobacco Industry (2013, Routledge). Her other scholarly publications appear in Theory and Society, Social Science Quarterly, Comparative Sociology, Sociology of Development, Management and Organization Review, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, and so forth. Dr. Wang’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) during 2005-06 and 2012-14.
Dr. Wang is a Board Member of the Research Committee for Sociology of Science and Technology at the International Sociological Association. She has served on the editorial boards of Social Science Research and Management and Organization Review.