Min Zhou, Ph.D. (Sociology), is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies, Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in US-China Relations and Communications, and Director of the Asia Pacific Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S). Her main research areas are in migration & development, race and ethnicity, Chinese diasporas, Asian American studies, and urban sociology. She has published widely in these areas, including the award-winning book The Asian American Achievement Paradox (with Lee, 2015), The Rise of the New Second Generation (with Bankston, 2016), Contemporary Chinese Diasporas (ed., 2017), Forever Strangers? Contemporary Chinese Immigrants around the World (ed., 2021, in traditional Chinese), and Beyond Economic Migration: Historical, Social, and Political Factors in US Immigration (eds., with Mahmud, 2023). She was the recipient of the 2017 Distinguished Career Award of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on International Migration and the 2020 Contribution to the Field Award of the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America.
周敏(Min ZHOU),社會學博士,美國洛杉磯加州大學(UCLA)社會學和亞美研究學終身講座教授(亞美研究學系首任系主任)、王文祥伉儷美中關係與傳媒基金講座教授,UCLA亞太中心主任,美国艺术与科学院(American Academy of Arts and Sciences)院士。她还担任《海外華人研究》(英文Journal of Chinese Overseas)聯合主編;《民族與種族研究》(英文Ethnic and Racial Studies)、《華人研究國際學報》(華文)、《國際移民》(英文International Migration)等國際性中英文學術刊物的編委以及《世界華人研究學會》(ISSCO)理事。曾任新加坡南洋理工大學陳六使講座教授、社會學系主任和華裔館館長;中國中山大學長江學者講座教授;北美華人社會學學會會長、美國社會學學會理事,美國社會學學會國際移民分會會長以及美國社會學學會亞洲與亞美研究分會會長等。主要研究領域是國際移民社會學、種族與族裔關係、新移民第二代、海外華人研究、亞洲與美國亞裔研究以及城市社會學。迄今為止,她共出版了20本學術專著,在著名學術雜誌和刊物中發表了220餘篇學術論文,包括:《美國亞裔成就的悖論》(英文,合著,2015),《美國移民第二代的崛起》(英文,合著,2016),《當代海外華人社會》(英文,編著,2017),《長為異鄉客?當代華人新移民》(華文,主編,2021),《超越經濟移民》(英文,合編,2023)。她的谷歌學術引用次數至2022年9月17日止達33360次。她榮獲2017年美國社會學學會國際移民分會傑出職業成就獎和2020美國社會學學會亞洲與亞美研究分會傑出學術貢獻獎。