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Wenjie Liao

Associate Professor, Sociology/Anthropology

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts

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Wenjie Liao

Associate Professor, Sociology/Anthropology

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts

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Journal Paper
Liao, Wenjie, Kim Ebert, and Lisa Sun-Hee Park. "Migration and Racialization Part II: The Light and Shadow of Inclusion." American Behavioral Scientist. (2022): online first. Web.
Ebert, Kim, Wenjie Liao, and Lisa Sun-Hee Park. "Migration and Racialization Part I: Constructing and Navigating a Hostile Terrain." American Behavioral Scientist. (2022): online first. Web.
Busse, Erika, Meghan Krausch, and Wenjie Liao. "How the ‘Neutral’ University Makes Critical Feminist Pedagogy Impossible: Intersectional Analysis from Marginalized Faculty on Three Campuses." Sociological Spectrum 41. 1 (2021): 29-52. Print.
Liao, Wenjie and Liying Luo. "Gender, Education, and Attitudes toward Women’s Leadership in Three East Asian Countries: An Intersectional and Multilevel Approach." Societies 11. 3 (2021): 103. Web.
Liao, Wenjie, et al. "The House Is on Fire but We Kept the Burglars Out: Racial Apathy and White Ignorance in Pandemic-Era Immigration Detention." Social Sciences 10. 10 (2021): 358. Web.
Liao, Wenjie. "Legitimacy of authoritarian law: Legal compliance in China." International Sociology 34. 6 (2019): 675-695. Print.
Ebert, Kim, Wenjie Liao, and Emily P. Estrada. "Apathy and Color-Blindness in Privatized Immigration Control." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. (2019): online first. Web.
Boyle, Elizabeth H., Shannon Golden, and Wenjie Liao. "Catholic Church and International Law." Annual Review of Law and Social Science 13. (2017): 395-411. Print.
Book Chapter
Liao, Wenjie and Joachim J. Savelsberg. "Law." Handbuch Sozialwissenschaftliche Gedächtnisforschung. Ed. M. Berek,, et al. Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer Fachmedien, 2021. 1-15. Web.

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