XIUHUA (STELLA) WANG CONTACT Office Phone: (254)710-4578 Address: Baylor University-Statistics, One Bear Place #97326, Waco, TX, 76706 Email: Xiuhua_wang@baylor.edu Website: http://xiuhuawang88.com EDUCATION 2018 Exp. M.S. Statistics, Baylor University 2017 Ph.D. Sociology, Baylor University Dissertation: Religion in Contemporary China, the Rise and the Social Consequences Chair: Paul D. Froese 2015 M.A. Sociology, Baylor University 2013 M.A. Public Policy, Renmin University of China, Beijing 2011 B.A. Agriculture Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing RESEARCH INTERESTS Computational Sociology; Criminology/Deviance; Religion; Health/Subjective Wellbeing; China/Asian Study/Globalization METHODOLOGY STRENGTH Causal Inference; Time Series Analysis; Geographical Data Analysis; Multivariate Analysis (MANOVA; PCA; SEM; LDA; QDA; Clustering;); Bayesian Statistics; Hierarchical Modeling; SOFTWARE STATA; R; SAS Mathematica; Matlab; Latex; BOOK 2015 Rodney Stark, Xiuhua Wang. A Star in the East: The Rise of Christianity in China, Templeton Press. ISBN: 978-1-59947-487 1
ARTICLES 2017 Xiuhua Wang, Jeremy Uecker. Understanding the Effect of Education on Religiosity and Religious Legitimacy in Contemporary China, Review of Religion Research, 29.2 (2017): 157-182 2016 Xiuhua Wang, Sungjoon Jang. The Relationship between Religion and Deviance in a Largely Irreligious Country: Findings from the 2010 China General Social Survey. Deviant Behavior. (2016): 1-21 Ruan, Rongping, Wang Xiuhua, and Zheng Fengtian. An economic analysis on intergenerational lock-in effects of belief in rural China. China Agricultural Economic Review. (2016): 8-1 2014 Stark, Rodney, and Xiuhua Wang. Christian Conversion and Cultural Incongruity in Asia. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. (2014):2 2013 Wang, Xiuhua. The Collapse of Secular Social Capital and Religious Revival in Rural China. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. (2013): 4 Ding Dong, Xiuhua Wang and Fengtian Zheng. Social Capital, Welfare and Poverty in Rural China Based on Henan Rural Survey China Population Resource and Environment, 23.7 (2013): 122-128. [Chinese] 2010 Xiuhua Wang, The Ambiguity of Development: A Case Study on the Mushroom Industry in Southeastern China. Reform.2010 [Chinese] MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW Xiuhua Wang, Rongping Ruan, Carson Mencken, Paul McClure Religion Promotes General Trust in Contemporary China Analysis based on Spiritual Life Survey of Chinese Residents. [R&R] Rongping Ruan, Xiuhua Wang. Does Religion make People More General? Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion [Under Review] WORKING PAPER Xiuhua Wang, Life Strains and Religious Involvement in Post-communist China: A Revisit of the Life Deprivation Theory Xiuhua Wang, The Public and Private Divide of Religious Tolerance: Understanding the Educational Effect 2
Xiuhua Wang, Why Religion Fails in Emotional Coping in China? Xiuhua Wang, Sungjoon Jang, The Effects of Provincial and Individual Religiosity on Deviance in China:A Multilevel Modeling Test of Moral Community Thesis Rongping Ruan, Xiuhua Wang, Understanding the Puzzle of Female Labor Participation in Urban China: A New Interpretation from Culture Perspective CONFERENCES 2016 Xiuhua Wang, Religious Tolerance in Contemporary China, SSSR conference, Atlanta Xiuhua Wang, Sung Joon Jang, Does Religion Inhibit Crimes and Deviance in Contemporary China Based on China General Social Survey 2010, the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans 2015 Xiuhua Wang, Jeremy Uecker, Understanding the Effect of Education on Religiosity and Religious Legitimacy in China, SSSR Conference, Newport Beach, CA Xiuhua Wang, Weipeng Ya, Multiple Modernities: Understanding Religion Change in Contemporary China a Case Study based on N County in Henan Province, SSSR Conference, Newport Beach, CA Xiuhua Wang, Understanding the Causality of Religious Involvement and Trust in China, Conference on Religion and Politics in Contemporary China. Beijing, China 2014 Xiuhua Wang, The Rise of Christianity in China a Gender Perspective, 2014 SSSR Conference, Indianapolis, IN 2013 Xiuhua Wang, Rongping Ruan, Religion and Trust in China based on China General Social Survey, Religion, Spiritual Capital and Civic Society Conference, Hong Kong WORKSHOP 2017.08 [Scheduled] Writing Workshop: For the Social Scientific Study of Religion among the Chinese, Purdue University Montreal, Canada [Fully Funded] 2017.06 Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences UC-Berkeley, CA [Fully Funded] 2016.06 Summer Seminar on Religion and the Social Science Abigail Adams Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA [Fully Funded] 3
2016.03 5 th Annual Graduate Workshop Program on Economics of Religion IRES, Chapman University, Orange County, CA [Fully Funded] 2015.07 12 th Summer Seminar on Religion in China, America and European Countries, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China [Partially Funded] 2013.07 10 th Summer Seminar on Religion in China, America and European Countries, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China [Fully Funded] 2010 Seminar on Society, Economic and Law: History and Theory Philip Huang, UCLA, Renmin University of China, Beijing RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP 2016-2017 Data Analysis on National Survey of Asian and Pacific Island Catholics Advisor: Jerry Park, Baylor University 2013-2015 Research Assistant for Project on the Triumph of Faith: Why the World is More Religious Than Ever? Advisor: Rodney Stark, Baylor University 2008-2012 Religion, Social Conflict and Public Goods in Rural China China National Major Social Science Fund (#08&ZD032) China National Major Nature Science Funding Project (#71103006) Advisor: Fengtian Zheng; Ruan Rongping, Renmin University of China AWARD AND FUNDING 2013-2017 Baylor Graduate Student Travel Award ($6400 in total) 2013-2017 Baylor Graduate Student Fellowship ($20,000 annually) 2017-2018 Research Fellowship, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion ($22,000) TEACHING Statistic Methods; Criminology Theory; Religion INVITED TALK Renmin University of China, Philosophy Department, July. 12 th, 2015 (Religion and Modernization in Contemporary China) 4
LANGUAGE Mandarin Native; English Fluent FEFERENCES (Upon Request only) Rodney Stark (Baylor University-Sociology) Paul Froese (Baylor University-Sociology) James Stamey (Baylor University-Statistics) Byron Johnson (Baylor University-Criminology) Sungjoon Jang (Baylor University-Criminology) Dedong Wei (Renmin University of China-Religion, China Study) Fengtian Zheng (Renmin University of China-Economics) 5