Experience

• Texas A&M University-Commerce

  Professor

  Jiaming Sun, Ph.D., Professor (tenured) in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Texas A & M University-Commerce. He had been a faculty member of Sociology Department, International Politics Department in Fudan University for eleven years before coming to the United State. His book based on a survey research Generation Gaps: the Background of Transition Period 1991-1994 (in Chinese) has been widely cited in the studies of social change and cultural transition in China. The book "Personal Global Connectivity and Local Transformation" (in English) has examined changing behavior and values orientation among residents impacted by globalization in Shanghai by applying Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) in the data analysis. He has also published a number of book chapters and papers on globalization, urban residential life, cultural study, and youth problems in the last twenty five years.