Our Team

Ke Li

Board Member

Ke Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the John Jay College, part of the City University of New York. Her research focuses on law and society, power and inequality, gender relationships and politics in non-democratic contexts. After receiving a joint Ph.D. in sociology and criminal justice at Indiana University, Bloomington, Li published journal articles as well as an award-winning book, Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China (Stanford University Press 2022).

Juan Acevedo

Research Assistant

Juan is a PhD candidate in political science at the Graduate Center CUNY. He holds a masters degree in international relations from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan.

Jennifer Holdaway

Consultant

Jennifer Holdaway is an affiliated fellow of the International Institute of Asian Studies of the University of Leiden and former China Representative of the Social Science Research Council. She is an alumna of the CUNY Graduate Center and a consultant to the CUNY China Initiative.

Phil Kasinitz

Board Member

Presidential Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center

John Torpey

Project Director

John Torpey is Presidential Professor of Sociology and History at the Graduate Center, CUNY and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute

Van Tran

Board Member

Van Tran is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY.