Ph.D. 2026 (Sociology), New York University;

M.A. 2019 (Sociology), The Pennsylvania State University;

M.A. 2017 (Sociology), Nanjing University;

B.L. 2013 (Sociology), Wuhan University.

AI and Society (Master’s Level, Taught in English)

Data Ethics and Algorithmic Governance (Undergraduate Level)

Li, Zhi. “Educational differences in stock-linked wealth trajectories and wealth accumulation across generationsin the United States.”R&R at Demography.

Robert D. Mare Graduate Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association’s Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility, 2025

Travel Award, Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility, International Sociological Association, 2025

Wu, Xiaogang, Zhi Li, and Mike Hout.“Politics and viruses: Party identification and COVID-19 infections in the United States.” R&Rat Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Zhang, Yongjun, Siwei Cheng, Zhi Li, and Wenhao Jiang. “Human mobility patterns are associated with experienced partisan segregation in US metropolitan areas.”Scientific Reports13, no. 1 (2023): 9768.

Chen, Xinguang, Yang Sun, Zhi Li, Bin Yu, Ge Gao, and Peigang Wang. “Historical trends in suicide risk for the residents of mainland China: APC modeling of the archived national suicide mortality rates during 1987–2012.”Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 54 (2019): 99-110.

Li, Zhi, Peigang Wang, Ge Gao, Chunling Xu, and Xinguang Chen. “Age-period-cohort analysis of infectious disease mortality in urban-rural China, 1990–2010.”International Journal for Equity in Health 15 (2016): 1-9.

Li, Zhi, and Peigang Wang. “Comprehensive evaluation of the objective quality of life of Chinese residents: 2006 to 2009.” Social Indicators Research 113 (2013): 1075-1090.