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1885 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 292.6681
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Zhenchao Qian

Professor

Office: 115 Townshend
Phone: 614.688.8612
Email: qian.26@sociology.osu.edu

Web: View my web page

CV: View my Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Ph.D.: University of Pennsylvania, 1994


Research Interests:

Family demography, race and ethnicity, and immigration. Current research examines the impact of individual and marriage market characteristics on how men and women pair with spouses or cohabiting partners based on race/ethnicity, nativity status, educational attainment, etc. Other research interests include racial identification among children born to interracial couples, integration patterns of immigrants in the United States, and demographic and social changes in China.


Recent Publications:

  • Qian, Zhenchao and Daniel T. Lichter. 2007.  “Social Boundaries and Marital Assimilation:  Interpreting Trends in Racial and Ethnic Intermarriage.” American Sociological Review 72: 68-94.
  • Jacobs, Dave, Zhenchao Qian, Jason Carmichael, and Stephanie Kent.  2007. “Who Survives on Death Row: An Individual and Contextual Analysis.”  American Sociological Review 72: 610-32.
  • Batson, Christie D., Zhenchao Qian, and Daniel T. Lichter.  2006. “Interracial and Intraracial Patterns of Mate Selection Among America’s Diverse Black Populations.”  Journal of Marriage and Family 68: 658-672.
  • Lichter, Daniel T., Zhenchao Qian, and Leanna M. Mellott.  2006. “Marriage or Dissolution?  Union Transitions among Poor Cohabiting Women.” Demography 43: 223-240.
  • Qian, Zhenchao, Daniel T. Lichter, and Leanna Mellott.  2005. “Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing, Marital Prospects, And Mate Selection.”  Social Forces 84: 473-491.
  • Qian, Zhenchao. 2005. “Breaking the Racial Taboo: Interracial Marriage in America.” Contexts 4 (4): 33-37.