Acton Jiashi Feng

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Acton Jiashi Feng

Graduate Student

Email: actonfeng96@ucla.edu

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Biography

Acton Jiashi Feng is a Ph.D. candidate of sociology at UCLA. He studies family issues from a cultural and demographic perspective. His previous research examined educational assortative mating in contemporary China. Employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, his dissertation project addresses the question of how the marital decision-making process is shaped by social and cultural influences in contemporary China. Some of his other ongoing projects investigate (1) how regional categories shape social relations, (2) the regional variation of culture, (3) the consequence of educational assortative mating in fertility behavior, (4) the (reverse) socialization of gender attitudes.

Degrees

  • M.A. in Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2020
  • B.A. in Sociology, UW Madison, 2018

Fields of Study

Culture, family, gender, social stratification, mixed methods.

Publications

  • Acton Jiashi Feng. 2022. “Revisiting Horizontal Stratification in Higher Education: College Prestige Hierarchy and Educational Assortative Mating in China.” Demography, 59(1):349–369.

Awards & Grants

  • Department of Sociology Service Award, UCLA. 2023.
  • Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award, UCLA, 2022.
  • Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award, UCLA, 2021.
  • Maroon Scholar Research Award, University of Chicago, 2019.
  • Alfred Reschke Social Science Scholarship, UW Madison, 2018.
  • Bromley Research Conference Travel Grant, UW Madison, 2018.
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 2018.

Advisors

  • Omar Lizardo, Stefan Timmermans

Collaborators

Shichao Du

Kristin Liao

Iris Huimeng Zhao