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MIN ZHOU
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Professor of Sociology
Chair, Dept. of Asian American Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D., Sociology, State University of New York at Albany. 1989
M.A., Sociology, State University of New York at Albany. 1985
B.A., English, Zhongshan University, the People’s Republic of China
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Research Areas:
Dr. Zhou’s research interests include a cross-section of immigration and immigrant identity, race and ethnicity and urban sociology. She writes extensively about the struggles and challenges of immigrant students in their quest for cultural acceptance, socioeconomic mobility, and academic achievement in their adopted countries.
Activities & Honors:
In 1989 Min Zhou won the President’s Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award and received in 2000 the Distinguished Book Award for Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States. Dr. Zhou was also a member of the Council of Scholars for the Chinese American Museum of Los Angeles in 2000 and gave a public lecture titled “Negotiating Cultural Change and Intergenerational Relations” at the University of Singapore in 2004.
Selected Publications:
• Zhou, M. and Carl L. Bankston, III. (1998). Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.
• Lee, Jennifer and Min Zhou, eds. 2004. Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity. New York: Routledge.
• Zhou, M. 2004. “Are Asian Americans Becoming White?” Context 3 (1): 29-37.
• Zhou, M. and Jennifer Lee. 2004. “The Making of Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity among Asian American Youth.” Pp. 1-30 in Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou, eds. Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity. New York: Routledge.
• Zhou, M. and Carl L. Bankston, III. (2000). Straddling Different Social Worlds: The Experience of Vietnamese Refugee Children in the United States. New York: ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education, Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.
• Bankston, Carl L. III, Stephen J. Caldas, and Min Zhou. (1997). Valedictorians and Delinquents: The Bifurcation of Vietnamese American Youth. Deviant Behavior 18: 343-363.
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