Subfield: Gender, Development, Labor and Employment, Politics, Social Movements, Middle East and North Africa

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity, Quantitative Methods, Social Stratification and Mobility

Subfield: Gender, Sexuality, DevelopmentSouth Asia

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity, International Migration, Political Sociology

Subfield: International Migration, Race & Ethnicity, Social Stratification & Mobility, Quantitative Methods

Subfield: Social Stratification, Education, Military, Race & Ethnicity, Demography

Subfield: Sociology of Health and Illness; Organizational Sociology; Network Analysis; Quantitative Methods; Military and Veteran

Subfield: Political Sociology; Comparative-Historical Sociology; War & Armed Conflict; Elections; Gender

Subfield: International Migration, Forced Migration, Sociology of Law, Refugee & Asylum Law, Ethnography, Comparative & Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Human Rights

Subfield: Comparative & Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Social Theory, Comparative Race & Ethnicity, Social Movements & Collective Behavior.

Subfield: Sociology of Law, Sexualities, Gender, Cultural Sociology

Subfield: community and urban sociology; inequality, poverty, and mobility; political sociology; sociology of population

Subfield: International Migration, Forced Migration, Refugee Resettlement, Political Sociology

Subfield: Political sociology, Markets, Knowledge, Historical and comparative sociology, Comparative ethnicity, Ethnography, Latin America.

Subfield: Gender, Social Demography, Family

Subfield: international migration, policy, sociology of law, gender, youth and childhood studies, qualitative research methods

Subfield: political sociology, the anthropology of the state, social movements, historical sociology and contemporary social theory, Middle Eastern Studies

Subfield: Sociology of Expertise; Economic Sociology; Science and Technology Studies; Organizational Theory; Digital Methods.

Subfield: Computational methods,  science and technology studies, culture

Subfield: Political Sociology, Information (and Data) and Society, Technology, Institutions

Subfield: Development, political sociology, Latin America

Subfield: international migration, social stratification, education

Subfield: Gender, Family, Organizational Analysis, Military and Veterans

Subfield: Comparative Historical Sociology, Organizations, Economic Sociology

Subfield: political sociology, international migration, forced migration studies, urban studies, Global South, community-based learning

Subfield: Medical Sociology, Reproduction, Gender, Ethnography 

Subfield: Political Sociology, International Migration, Comparative Ethnicity and Nationalism, Middle East Studies

Subfield: Race & Ethnicity; Social Movements; Qualitative Methods

Subfield: International Migration, Political Economy, Religion, Organizations, Comparative Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Social Interaction

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Medical Sociology

Subfield: Economic Sociology, Race/Ethnicity, Social Stratification

Subfield: International migration, Immigrant detention, Deportation, Gender, Medical Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Ethnography.

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Medical Sociology, Communication in Health Care, Quantitative & Mixed Methods

Subfield: Subfields: Social Stratification & Mobility; Political Sociology; Collective Action/Social Change; Social Networks; Social Movements & Collective Behavior

Subfield: Social Stratification and Mobility; Education

Language, social interaction, and secrecy. News leaks, and press/state transparency. Economic exchange, informal organizations, and reciprocity. Spanish conversation, indirect speech, rhetoric.

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Economic Sociology, Linguistic Anthropology. 

Subfield: Political sociology, international migration, displacement, development, Southeast Asia, comparative ethnography and qualitative methods

Subfield: Gender, Race, Migration

Subfield: Gender, Organizations and Work, Social Psychology 

Subfield: Social Stratification & Mobility; Education; Demography

Subfield: Social stratification, race and ethnicity, social demography, international migration

Subfield: Economic sociology, sociology of culture, internet, markets, mass media, network analysis, computational sociology

Subfield: Carcerality; Black Feminist Thought; Race and Ethnicity; Law and Society; Critical Race Theory; Gender; Urban and Suburban Methods Specialization: Archival Ethnography; Geographic Information Systems

Subfield: International Migration, Economic Sociology, Urban Sociology, Qualitative Methods 

Substantive Topics: Sociology of Celebrity, Intergroup Relations, Relationship Formation, Media Representation

Subfield: Computational Sociology, Social Networks, Social Theory, Critical Theory, Culture, Social Psychology, Race & Ethnicity, Quantitative Methods

Residential Segregation, Neighborhood population change, Residential mobility through the life course.

Subfield: Demography

Solo-authored Manuscripts Revised and Resubmitted for Second Review

“Mathematically Modeling Immigrant Bureaucrat-Civilian Interactions,” (Revised and Resubmitted to Frontiers: Sociological Theory)

“Conceptualizing Remote Control of International Mobility As a Quasi-Colonial System and Unauthorized Mobility As Its Decolonialization,” (Revised and Resubmitted to Theory and Society)

“How the ‘Dual Intent Doctrine’ Undermines the Immigrant Versus Non-Immigrant Binary,” (Revised and Resubmitted To The Legal Landscape of U.S. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century edited by Katheleen Donato and Catalina Amuedos-Donato)

Solo-authored Manuscripts Under Review

“Whom Do U.S. Consular Officers Perceive As “Non-Immigrants”? How Cultural Habitus Stratifies Legal Mobility From China,” (under review at American Sociological Review)

“Family Ties As a Gendered Deterrent of International Migration and Travel From China,” (under review at Journal of Marriage and Family)

“Disenchanted With the Immigration Dream: The Sociological Formation of Chinese Ex-Immigrant Subjectivity,” (under review at American Journal of Sociology)

“The Extra-legal Logic of When the People’s Republic of China Deprives Its Citizens of the Freedom to Enter and Exit” (under review at World Politics)

“Has International Mobility Become More Strongly Associated With Homophily or Hierarchy Between 1969 and 2010?” (under review at Social Forces)

“The Institutional Foundation of Diversified Immigration to Australia and Canada,” (under review at Social Science History)

“‘From “Illegal” to “Undocumented”—The Impact of a Lexical Shift In a Social Movement Against Dehumanization,” (under review at the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies)

“Which Nationalities Have Been Coming to the United States Since the 2016 Election and the Travel Ban?” (under review at Demography)

“Incorporating the Interests of Both Migrant-Sending and Migrant-Receiving Societies In Communitarian, Democratic and Liberal Visions of Just International Migration Policy,” (under review at Stanford Law Review)

“What Does It Mean To Be An Migrant? The Multi-dimensionality of the Migrant Trans-experience,” (under review at International Migration Review)

Coauthored Manuscripts Under Preparation

Zhou, Min and Jacob Thomas, “Transnational Ethnic Entrepreneurship,” in Brenda Yeo and Francis Collins’ Handbook On Transnationalism. Expected 2021

Huang, Peng and Jacob Thomas, “Strengths and Challenges of Cross-Cultural Field Research,” in preparation for Qualitative Methodology

Subfield: International Migration, Social Stratification, Sociology of Law, Transnational (Im)mobility and Inequality, Comparative Migration Policy and Law, Sociology of Independent Travel and Tourism, Social Networks, Survey Design and Mixed Methods Research

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity, Media, Culture

Subfield: Race, Ethnicity, Class, Gender; Latinx and Black feminist theory; Nationalism; Qualitative methods

Subfield: Political Sociology; Comparative and Historical Sociology; Security Studies; the Middle East

Subfield: Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology, Socialist and Post-Socialist States, Welfare, Labor, Disability

Subfield: Aging and Life Course, Technology, Culture, Ethnography, Mixed Methods, Temporality