Daniel Zipp
Biography
I am particularly interested in studying the ways in which individuals resist attempts by the state to impose its power, and in doing so I use various qualitative research methods and draw on political (including social movements), economic, and organizational sociology.
Degrees
- B.A. Politics (High Honors) and East Asian Studies, Oberlin College, 2013
- M.A. Sociology, UCLA, 2017
Fields of Study
Poltical, Economic, Environmental, and Organizational Sociology
Ethnography, Interviews, and Historical/Comparative Methods
Publications
- 2021 Zipp, Daniel Y. “Chinatowns Lost? The Birth and Death of Urban Neighborhoods in an American City” City and Community. https://doi.org/10.1177/15356841211016753
- 2015 Zipp, Daniel Y. and Marc Blecher. “Migrants and Mobilization: Sectoral Patterns in China, 2010-2013.” Global Labour Journal 6.1: 116-26.
Articles in Progress:
- Zipp, Daniel Y. “Compliance and Resistance at the Coalface: Resourceful Recoupling of Environmental Practice in China.”
- Zipp, Daniel Y. and Charlotte M. Hopkinson. “Constructing Legality: Evaluating China’s Rule of Law by Analyzing the Effectiveness of the Remedies Available under Labor Contract Law of 2008 for Migrant Construction Workers.”
Awards & Grants
- 2021 Silton Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award, Sociology Department, UCLA
- 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award, Sociology Department, UCLA
- 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award, Sociology Department, UCLA
- 2017 Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles Graduate Division, $20,000
- 2016 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles Graduate Division, $6,000
Conference Presentations
- 2021 Zipp, Daniel Y., “Extracting Resistance: Coal, Environmental Policy, and Economic Development in the Chinese Hinterland,” Annual Meeting, European Sociological Association, August.
- 2021 Zipp, Daniel Y., “Extracting Resistance: Coal, Environmental Policy, and Economic Development in the Chinese Hinterland,” Round Table, Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, August.
- 2021 Zipp, Daniel. Y., “Extracting Resistance: Coal, Environmental Policy, and Economic Development in the Chinese Hinterland,” Development Studies Association Conference, University of East Anglia, June.
- 2021 Zipp, Daniel Y., “The (Non)Coalescence of the State: Decoupling Environmental Policy in the Chinese Hinterland,” First Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany, March.
- 2021 Zipp, Daniel Y., “Confronting King Coal in China: The State, Capital, and Labor in a Dying Industry.” IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, February.
- 2020 Zipp, Daniel Y., “Shanxi and Henan’s Ecological Development Projects,” Internet Conference on Regional Environment and Ecology, Henan University, August.
- 2020* Zipp, Daniel Y., “The (Non)Coalescence of the State: Decoupling Environmental Policy in the Chinese Hinterland,” Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, August.
- 2019 Zipp, Daniel Y., “Confronting King Coal in China: The State, Capital, and Labor in a Dying Industry,” Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, New York, August.
- 2019 Zipp, Daniel Y., “山西河南两省农村发展比较 (Comparing Shanxi and Henan’s Rural Development Projects),” 第十一届“黄河学”高层论坛暨“古文字与出土文献语言研究”国际学术研讨会 (The 11th “Yellow River Studies” High-Level Forum and Conference of “International Studies on Ancient Chinese Language and Unearthed Documents”), Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China, May.
- 2018 Zipp, Daniel Y., “Chinatowns Lost: The Life and Death of Urban Neighborhoods in an American City,” Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, August.
- 2014 Zipp, Daniel Y. and Blecher, Marc, “Migrants and Mobilization: Sectoral Patterns in China, 2010-2013,” Conference on Governance, Adaptability and System Stability under Contemporary One-Party Rule: Comparative Perspectives, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China, March.
- *Canceled due to COVID-19
