• Bai Gao

  • Professor
  • Sociology
  • 341 Soc-Psych
  • Campus Box 90088
  • Phone: (919) 660-5620
  • Fax: (919) 660-5623
  • Specialties

  • Research Description

    I received my B.A. in Japanese Language and Literature in 1983, and M.A. in Comparative Higher Education in 1986 from Beijing University. I received an M.A. in 1990 and a Ph.D in Sociology in January 1994 from Princeton University. Before entering the United States, I worked as a research fellow at Beijing University. I have worked as visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Hitotsubashi University, and the Yokohama National University. My major areas of research interest are economic sociology, globalization, comparative historical sociology, comparative political economy. I teach Technology and Organizational Environments (SOC 144), The Global Responses to the Rise of China(SOC 299), and Chinese Economic Development in Comparative Perspectives (SOC 299, SOC 195, ECO 197).