Yongjun Zhang
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Institute for Advanced Computational Science
Ph.D. 2020, University of Arizona
(631) 632-7700
Yongjun.Zhang@stonybrook.edu
www.yongjunzhang.com
Areas of Interest
Political Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Big Data, and Computational Social Science
Bio
My current work combines statistical, network, and computational methods with large-scale datasets to study social, political, and organizational behavior. Particularly, I am using large-scale GPS data, administrative records (e.g., FEC records, voter files, and consumer profiles), and social media data (e.g., billions of tweets) to study mobility, segregation, and polarization among different settings in the U.S. and the globe.
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Selected Publications
Yongjun Zhang. 2023. ''Spatial Segregation and Voting Behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 General Election." Social Science Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2023.102929
Yongjun Zhang, Hao Lin, Yi Wang, and Xinguang Fan. 2023. "Sinophobia was popular on Twitter among Chinese language communities during the early COVID-19 pandemic." Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-01959-6
Yongjun Zhang, Siwei Cheng, Zhi Li, and Wenhao Jiang, 2023. "Human mobility patterns are associated with experienced partisan segregation in US metropolitan areas." Scientific Reports.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36946-z
Xinguang Fan and Yongjun Zhang. 2022. “Just Virus or Politicized Virus? An Analysis
of
over 13 Million Global Web News of China on COVID-19.” Chinese Sociological Review.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2022.2116308
Yongjun Zhang, Sienna Thorgusen, and Xinguang Fan. 2022. “News Coverage of Social
Protests in Global Society.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152221085601
Yongjun Zhang. “Corporate Responses to COVID19: A Nonmarket Strategy Approach.”
Sociological Perspectives. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214211017587
Thomas Maher, Charles Seguin, Yongjun Zhang, and Andrew Davis. 2020. “Sharing Expertise:
Social Scientists before Congress, 1946-2015.” PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230104
Jeremy Fiel and Yongjun Zhang. 2019. “With All Deliberate Speed: The Reversal of Court-Ordered
School Desegregation in the United States, 1970-2013.” American Journal of Sociology
124 (6): 1685-1719. https://doi.org/10.1086/703044
Jeremy Fiel and Yongjun Zhang. 2017. “Three Types of Change in School Segregation:
A Grade-Period-Cohort Analysis.” Demography 55 (1), 33-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0632-9
Yongjun Zhang. 2017. “Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution in Postreform
China.” Journal of Marriage and Family 79 (5), 1435-1449. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12419