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, millions of YouTube videos) to study mobility, segregation, and polarization among different settings in the U.S. and worldwide.

CV

Selected Publications

Yongjun Zhang and Siwei Cheng. 2024. ''Mobility-based Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Evidence from Large-scale Mobile Device Data.'' Demography. Forthcoming.

Siwei Cheng, Yongjun Zhang, and Jenna Shaw.  2024. ''The Geography of Activity Space Segregation: Combining Mobile Device Data and Census Data.'' RSF Journal of the Social Sciences. Forthcoming.

Thomas V. Maher, Charles Seguin, and Yongjun Zhang. 2024. ''The Racial Limits of Disruption: How Race and Tactics Influence Social Movement Organization Testimony Before Congress, 1960-1995.'' Social Forces. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae073

Yongjun Zhang and Jennifer Heerwig. 2024. ''Gender, Race, and Intersectionality in the Political Donations of America’s Corporate Elite." The Sociological Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2024.2314069

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

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

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