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Jin JunTenured Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University. Vice Dean, Zhishan College

Prof. Jin Jun's research interests include sociology of transition, environmental sociology, and political sociology. He has long focused on topics such as grassroots governance, non-profit organizations, and climate change. He has published numerous academic papers in both Chinese and English in journals such as Sociological Studies, Social Development Studies, Xuehai, and BMC Public Health. His course, The Sociological Imagination: Structure, Power, and Transformation, has been recognized as a National First-Class Undergraduate Course, a Beijing High-Quality Undergraduate Course, a Tsinghua University Benchmark Course, and a Tsinghua University General Education Honor Course.

Educational Background

1. July 1994: Bachelor of Philosophy, Jilin University

2. July 1998: Master of Sociology, Peking University

3. December 2007: Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Professional Experience

1. 2008–2010: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University

2. 2010–present: Lecturer, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University

Honors and Awards

1. 2024: Fifth Tsinghua University Wang Bugao General Education Award

2. 2022: First Prize, Beijing Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award

3. 2021: First Prize, Tsinghua University Teaching Reform Achievement Award

4. 2020: Sixth Gong Yuzhi Teaching Award, Tsinghua University

5. 2019: BaoGang Outstanding Teacher Award

6. 2017–2021: Consecutively awarded Tsinghua University Annual Teaching Excellence Award

7. 2016–2020: Consecutively selected for the 6th, 7th, and 8th "Qingyun Candlelight: My Favorite Teacher" honors

8. 2020: Selected for the inaugural "My Favorite Teacher: Spring Breeze and Rain Award"

Recent Publications

1. “Investigative Case-Based Teaching: A Case Study of ‘The Sociological Imagination’ Course,” General Education Review, 2024, Issue 1: pp. 38–50

2. “The ‘Ten Citizen Guidelines’ and the Promotion of Individualized Daily Participation,” China Environmental Inspection, 2023, Issue 9: pp. 26–27

3. “What is the Public? What is the Mass?—Reflections on Wang Di’s Research on Chengdu,” Reading, 2022, Issue 12: pp. 12–20

4. “The Profit-Oriented Logic of Non-Profit Organizations: A Case Study of a Genetic Metabolic Disease Patient Organization” (co-authored with Dou Ying), Sociological Review, 2022, Issue 6: pp. 214–231

5. “The Production of ‘Visibility’: Population Management Practices in Public Security Police Stations” (co-authored with Jiang Rui), Social Development Studies, 2022, Issue 2: pp. 173–192

6. “Psychological Capital, College Adaptation, and Internet Addiction: An Analysis Based on a Moderated Mediation Model” (corresponding author), Frontiers in Psychiatry, Vol. 12, DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2021.712964

7. “Work Engagement and Its Influencing Factors Among Young Employees in State-Owned Enterprises” (co-authored with Bi Xiangyang), Youth Studies, 2021, Issue 6: pp. 48–58

8. “Barriers of Effective Health Insurance Coverage for Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers in China: A Systematic Review and Policy Gap Analysis” (co-authored with Dong DONG et al.), BMC Public Health, (2020) 20:408, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-8448-8

9. “Food Citizenship, Social Class, and Responses to the Food Safety Crisis” (co-authored with Bi Xiangyang), Xuehai, 2020, Issue 3: pp. 21–29