#  Ya-Wen Lei 

Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. 

Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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 email <yawenlei@fas.harvard.edu> 

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**Research interests**: Political sociology; law and society; economic sociology; sociology of media and information technologies; sociology of work, labor, and labor movements; science and technology studies; development; and China studies.



 

 

 





 

 

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