Xi Song

Xi Song is a Professor of Sociology and a faculty member of the Asian American Initiative at Columbia University. Her research interests include social mobility, occupations and work, Asian Americans, population studies, and quantitative methodology. Song received the 2021 William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association. Her publications received multiple awards from the American Sociological Association (ASA), the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (ISA-RC28), the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), and the Demographic Research. She received the Mentor of the Year Award from the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2022. She has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Sociological Methodology, Social Science Research, and Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.

More information about her research can be found on her website.