Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Sociology and Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Faculty Affiliate, Office of Population Research; Director, Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University
Chair Professor and Director of Center for Social Research, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China
Education
B.A., Industrial University, Shanghai (1982.1)
M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison (1984.12)
M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison.(1984.12)
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison (1989.8)
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor (1989-1994), Associate Professor (1994-1996), and Professor (1996-2015), Department of Sociology; Professor (2000-2015), Department of Statistics; Faculty Associate (1989-2001), Research Professor (2001-2015), Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research; Research Professor (1996-2015), Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research; John Stephenson Perrin Professorship (1996-1999); Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professorship (1999-2004); Faculty Associate (2003-2015), Center for Chinese Studies; Associate Director (1997-2001), Population Studies Center; Associate Chair (2000-2002), Department of Sociology; Otis Dudley Duncan Collegiate Professor (2004-2007); Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor (2007-2015); Professor (2011-2015), Ford School of Public Policy; Director (1999-2015), Quantitative Methodology Program, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
Changjiang Scholar Visiting Chair Professor (2009-2011); Chair Professor of Peking University (2011— ); Director (2013—), Center for Social Research, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Honorary Adjunct Professor (2009—), Honorary Degree Doctor of Social Sciences (2014), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
Honorary Adjunct Professor (2010—), Renmin University, Beijing, China.
Honorary Adjunct Professor (2010—), Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.
Honorary Adjunct Professor (2010—), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Sociology and Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (2015—); Faculty Affiliate (2015—), Office of Population Research; Director (2015—), Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University.
Specialties
Social Stratification, Methods and Statistics, Demography, Sociology of Science, Chinese Studies.
Awards and Honors
Fellowship Invitation to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1990)
National Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship (1991-1992)
National Science Foundation Young Investigator (NYI) Award (1992-1997)
William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholar Award (1994-1999)
Elected Member of the Sociological Research Association (1997)
Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2002-2003)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004)
Distinguished Lecturer Award, the Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology (WST), Georgia Institute of Technology (2006)
Clifford C. Clogg Award, Population Association of America (2008)
Member of US National Academy of Sciences (2009)
Wei-Lun Visiting Professorship, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2010)
Chairman, Section on Sociological Methodology, the American Sociological Association (2001-2003); Board on Science Education (2013—), National Research Council; Standing Committee of American Opportunity Study, National Academies of Sciences(2015—); Panel on S&E Workforce Surveys(2016—)
Board Member, Research Committee on Social Stratification, the International Sociological Association (1994-2002)
Editor, Sociological Methodology (2006-2009), Chinese Journal of Sociology (2014—)
Deputy Editor, American Sociological Review (1996-2000), Demography (2013—)
Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association (1999-2001)