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Profile
College / Department
Teaching areas
Introduction to Sociology; Sociology of Religion; Urban Sociology; Globalization; East Asian Societies; Chinese Culture and Society; American Society; International Organization.
Research areas
Muslim minorities in North America and China; Chinese diaspora; Sino-UAE Relations; Public Health Policy in the UAE
Education
PhD, Sociology, University of Notre Dame, United States, 2009
MA, Sociology, Western Illinois University, United States, 2003
BA, English Literature, Renmin University of China, China, 2001
Professional experience
Professor, Department Of International Studies, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2021 - Present
Affiliated Research Fellow, Center On Religion And Chinese Society, Purdue University, IN, United States, 2009 - Present
Associate Professor, Sociology, International Studies, American University of Sharjah (AUS), United Arab Emirates, 2015 - 2021
Summer Research Fellow In Residence, Middle East Center, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, 2019 - 2019
Visiting Scholar, Department Of Ethnic Studies, University of California-Berkeley, CA, United States, 2016 - 2017
Assistant Professor, Sociology, International Studies, American University of Sharjah (AUS), United Arab Emirates, 2009 - 2015
Visiting Scholar, Center On Religion And Chinese Society, Purdue University, IN, United States, 2011 - 2011
Instructor/pre-doctoral Fellow, Department Of Sociology And Asian-american Studies Program, Northwestern University, IL, United States, 2007 - 2008
Contact
+971 6 515 2522
Dr. Yuting Wang
Professor
PhD, University of Notre Dame, United States
Yuting Wang received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame in May 2009. She is Non-resident Research Fellow in the Center on Religion and the Global East at Purdue University. She has previously held visiting positions at Northwestern University, University of California-Berkley, and LSE. She has published widely on Muslims in the US and China, overseas Chinese, and Sino-UAE relations. She is the author of Between Islam and the American Dream: An Immigrant Muslim Community in Post-9/11 America (Routledge, 2014) and Chinese in Dubai: Money, Pride, and Soul-Searching (Brill, 2020).
Publications
Sarah Hopkyns And Yuting Wang. A Third Player: Chinese Linguistic and Cultural Influence at a UAE University, Journal Of Multilingual And Multicultural Development, 28 August 2024
Yuting Wang. Mosques in China: Contentious Structures and Competing Identities, 28 June 2024
Yuting Wang. Revisited: The ‘Good’ and the ‘Bad’ Muslims of China, The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, And The Public Sphere, 8 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2024
Yuting Wang. Chinese Migration to the United Arab Emirates: Trends and Prospects
Yuting Wang. Why is the UAE Becoming More Attractive to Chinese Migrants?: Education as the New Pull Factor
Yuting Wang. المغتربون الصينيون في الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا: اقتراح أجندة للبحوث العلمية, Chinese And Arab Studies, 11 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2024
Yuting Wang. Vicissitudes on the Straight Path, by Han Wencheng
Yuting Wang. Overseas Chinese in the Middle East and North Africa: Proposing A Research Agenda, May 2023
Yuting Wang. Between the Sacred and Secular: Living Islam in China, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2023
Yuting Wang. Review of Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai. By Amélie Le Renard, American Journal Of Sociology, March 2023
Yuting Wang. Becoming Global in the Arabian Gulf: Identities and Aspirations of Second-Generation Chinese Expatriates in the UAE, Asian Journal Of Middle Eastern And Islamic Studies, December 2022
Yuting Wang. Opportunities and Challenges for the UAE’s Chinese Expatriate Community in a New Era, 5 May 2022
Yuting Wang. Review of Becoming Activists in Global China: Social Movements in the Chinese Diaspora by Andrew Junker, China Review International, March 2022
Jana Fedtke, Mohammed Ibahrine, Yuting Wang And Bouziane Zaid. "Zombies for Their Profit": Social Networks in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Interactions, 25 February 2022
Jana Fedtke, Mohammed Ibahrine And Yuting Wang. Heroes in Harm’s Way: COVID-19 Narratives of China as a Form of Soft Power, Asian Studies, 19 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2022
Yuting Wang. Community Building and Social Engagement: Overseas Chinese Community in the United Arab Emirates, December 2021
Yuting Wang. Prospects of Covenantal Pluralism in the People’s Republic of China: A Reflection on State Policy and Muslim Minorities, The Review Of Faith & International Affairs, 9 June 2021
Yuting Wang And Lena Khalifa. Arab Perceptions of China During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from the UAE, 19 May 2021
Yuting Wang. Diverse Religious Experiences among Overseas Chinese in the United Arab Emirates, Annual Review Of The Sociology Of Religion, 7 December 2020
Yuting Wang. Chinese in Dubai: Money, Pride, and Soul-Searching, September 2020
Yuting Wang. Being Chinese Muslims in Dubai: Religion and Nationalism in a Transnational Space, 27 May 2020
Yuting Wang. Why it seems hard to understand the Chinese culture?, Trending Events, December 2019
Yuting Wang. Making Chinese Spaces in Dubai: A Spatial Consideration of Chinese Transnational Communities in the Arabian Gulf, Journal Of Arabian Studies, 2019
Yuting Wang. Special Section on China and the Arab Gulf, Journal Of Arabian Studies, 2019
Yuting Wang. Chinese Muslims in Dubai and the ‘Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation, 30 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2019
Yuting Wang. Special Section on China and the Arab Gulf: Developing a Multidisciplinary Approach, Journal Of Arabian Studies, June 2019
Yuting Wang. Chinese Muslims in the Era of Belt and Road, Middle East Center Blog, 3 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2019
Yuting Wang. Reimagining Chinese Islam and Muslims in Transregional Spaces, Review Of Religion And Chinese Society, December 2018
Yuting Wang. The Construction of Chinese Muslim Identities in Transnational Spaces, Review Of Religion And Chinese Society, December 2018
Yuting Wang. Reimagining Chinese Islam and Muslims in Transregional Spaces, Review Of Religion And Chinese Society, December 2018
Yuting Wang. The Making of China’s "Good Muslims": From Middleman Minority to Cultural Entrepreneurs., The China Review, November 2018
Yuting Wang. Muslim Women's Evolving Leadership Roles: A Case Study of Women Leaders in an Immigrant Muslim Community in Post-9/11 America, Social Compass: International Review Of Sociology Of Religion, 1 September 2017
Yuting Wang And Meenaz Kassam. Indicators of Social Change in the UAE: College Students' Attitudes towards Love, Marriage and Family, Journal Of Arabian Studies: Arabia, Gulf And The Red Sea [issn:2153-4764 (print), 2153-4780 (online)], 1 June 2016
Yuting Wang, Haiyun Ma, Shaojin Chai, Chow Ngeow, Haiyun Ma, Shaojin Chai And Chow Ngeow. Chinese, or Muslim, or Both? Modes of Adaptation among Chinese Muslims in the United Arab Emirates, May 2016
Yuting Wang. Book Review: Islam and China's Hong Kong: Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks, and the New Silk Road by Wai-Yip Ho, March 2016
Yuting Wang. 'Global Citizen' and the Dislocated Generation in the United Arab Emirates, May 2015
Yuting Wang, Adam Possamai, James Richardson, Bryan Turner, Adam Possamai, James Richardson And Bryan Turner. Between the Sacred and Secular: Living Islam in China, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2015
Yuting Wang. Between Islam and the American Dream: An Immigrant Muslim Community in Post-9/11 America, December 2013
Yuting Wang, Xiaojian Zhao And Edward Park. Asian American Muslims, November 2013
Yuting Wang. The 'Good' and 'Bad' Muslims of China, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2013
Yuting Wang, Fenggang Yang, Barry Robin And Barry Robin. Muslim Attitudes toward Business in the Emerging Market Economy of China, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2013
Yuting Wang And Fenggang Yang. Muslim Attitudes toward Business in the Emerging Market Economy of China, Social Compass: International Review Of Sociology Of Religion, 1 December 2011
Yuting Wang, Fenggang Yang, Shining Gao, Fenggang Yang, Shining Gao And Fenggang Yang. Xinzhu Haishi Xinren?: Chutan Chengshi Musilin Shangren de Xinren Wenti (Whom to Trust, Allah or Man?: Social Trust Muslim Businesspeople in Urban China), January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2010
Karen Cerulo, Aaron Fichtelberg, John Hall, Cihan Tugal, Yuting Wang, Mark Levine, Jeffrey Dowd, Zakia Salime And Val Moghadam. From the Forum Mailbox, Sociological Forum, 1 June 2008
Yuting Wang And Fenggang Yang. More Than Evangelical and Ethnic: The Ecological Factor in Chinese Conversion to Christianity in the United States, Sociology Of Religion: A Quarterly Review, 1 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2006
Conference Presentations
在两个世界的边缘：阿拉伯海湾地区的华人身份建构 (On the Edge of Two Worlds: The Construction of Chinese Identity in the Arabian Gulf), 17 December 2024
Chinese Muslims in the UAE: Religion, Nationalism, and Transnational Identities, Center For Gulf Studies Virtual Lecture Series, 19 November 2024
Emergence of Chinese Charitable Organizations in the MENA Region: A New Moral Paradigm in a Globalized Charitable Market, The 6th East Asian Society For The Scientific Study Of Religion Annual Meeting (easssr), 6 July 2024
Chinese Migration to the UAE: Trends and Prospects, China-middle East Relations, 18 May 2024
Emergence of Chinese Charitable Organizations in the MENA Region: A New Moral Paradigm in a Globalized Charitable Market, 10 April 2024
New Methods in Subaltern History: The Case of Chinese Islam, The Annual Conference Of The Association For Asian Studies, 14 March 2024
China's Softpower in the UAE, Public Diplomacy, Soft-power Building, And Digital Participation: Perspectives And Evidence From China, Arab Countries, And Beyond, 5 March 2024
Why is the UAE Becoming More Attractive to Chinese Migrants?: Education as the New Pull Factor, Rethinking The Middle East As West Asian, 13 January 2024
Healing Ties: China's Health Silk Road and Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Arab Gulf, The Closing Conference Of The Brifaith Project, 17 August 2023
Talking about Being Muslim in America Today, An International Webinar Organized By Dialektika, 5 August 2023
Re-Making Chinese Islam in the Arab Gulf: Bitcoin as a Way of Resistance, The 5th Annual Meetings Of The East Asian Society For The Scientific Study Of Religion, 11 July 2023
Transnational Resistance in a Digital Age: Chinese Muslims, Halal Bitcoin, and Reimagining Authentic Islamic Identity, The International Workshop Titled “muslim Minorities And Questions Of Secularity In China And Beyond”, 9 June 2023
Identity and Aspiration: Chinese Muslims in the Arab Gulf, Alwaleed Center Webinar Series, 25 May 2023
Becoming Global in the Arabian Gulf: Identities and Aspirations of Second-Generation Chinese Expatriates in Dubai, The 2022 Gulf Research Meeting, 14 July 2022
Chinese Expatriate Community in the UAE: Opportunities and Challenges in a New Era, Suad-cefrepa Diwan (monthly Lecture Series), 24 May 2022
Comments on China-GCC relations, China, The Middle East, And A Post-american Regional Order, 7 April 2022
Chinese Communities in the UAE, China And The Gcc: A Discussion Of The ‘routledge Handbook On China-middle East Relations, 8 March 2022
Chinese Muslims Medical Practitioners in Dubai: Religion, Healing and Medical Entrepreneurship, The 12th International Convention Of Asia Scholars (icas), 24 August 2021
Between the Sacred and the Secular: Living Islam in China, The 36th Conference Of The International Society For The Sociology Of Religion (issr), 12 July 2021
Religion and Ethnicity in the Chinese Diaspora: The Case of Chinese Muslims, Online International Scientific Conference, 15 May 2021
Chinese in Dubai: Community Building and Social Engagement, The 2nd International Forum On China-gulf Relations, 27 April 2021
Chinese Islamic Architecture: Heritage and Innovation, Forum On The Belt And Road Of Knowledge, 23 April 2021
Culture and History: The Cultural and Historical Ties between the Islamic World and China, The 2nd China-gulf Forum At Nyu-ad, 9 April 2021
The Biden Administration, China, and the Gulf, Webinar Co-hosted By The Us-uae Business Council And Middle East Institute, 7 April 2021
Chinese in Dubai: Money, Pride and Soul-Searching, Zayed University Evening Forum, 21 March 2021
Islam and Muslims in China: Religion, Ethnicity, and the State in the Belt and Road Era, Irp Perspective Seminar Series, 4 March 2021
Alternative Healing Methods and China’s Health Silk Road: The Case of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Dubai, The 4th Jiangnan Conference On China Studies, 30 October 2020
Sino-Gulf Relations in Post-pandemic World, Invited Lecture At Emirates Diplomatic Academy, 28 September 2020
Alternative Healing Methods and China’s Health Silk Road: The Case of Chinese Muslim Medicine Practitioners in Dubai, Brinfaith Workshop, 17 September 2020
Making Chinese Spaces in Dubai: New Chinese Transnational Communities in a New Global Econom, 10th International Conference Of International Society For The Study Of Chinese Overseas, 9 November 2019
Perception of China in the United Arab Emirates: BRI and its Implications in the Arabian Gulf, 7 November 2019
The Making of Chinese Religious Spaces in Dubai: Policies and Practices toward Religious Diversity in a Muslim-Majority Society, International Confucian Forum, 16 October 2019
China’s Image Building Projects and Soft Power in the United Arab Emirates, Gulf Research Meeting, July 2019
Negotiating Permanency and Transiency: Making Transnational Chinese Muslims in Dubai, 15 July 2019
"Hala China”: UAE’s Eastward Turn and the Making of Chinese Transnational Spaces in Dubai, 20 May 2019
Perception of China’s Soft Power in the United Arab Emirates: Preliminary Findings from a Cross-Sectional Study, The 5th China-mena Conference, 17 May 2019
Making Chinese Spaces in Dubai: New Chinese Transnational Community in the New Global Economy, Workshop On China And The Arabian Gulf: Bridging The Macro And Micro Approaches, 17 November 2018
The Remaking of Chinese Islam in a Transnational Space, International Conference On Islam In China Seas, 23 March 2018
Grants and sponsorships
Fellowship, Departmental Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong, January 2024 - May 2025
Grant, Educational Choices, Career Aspirations, and Identity Construction among Second-Generation Chinese Expatriates in the UAE, Office of Research, June 2023 - May 2025
Grant, Comprehensive Study on an Emerging Global Threat: Chemical, Environmental, Social and Heath Assessment of Midwakh, Office of Research, American University of Sharjah, 29 April 2019 - 30 May 2024
Grant, Mapping the Chinese Religioscapes in the Arabian Gulf, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 1 March 2019 - 30 May 2023
Grant, Making Chinese Islamic Art in Transnational Spaces: Innovation, Gender, and the Discourse of Authenticity, Office of Research, American University of Sharjah, 29 April 2019 - 30 May 2022
Grant, Bridging the Micro-Macro Divide in Approaches to the Middle East, Middle East Center, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1 June 2018 - 30 May 2020
Grant, Perceptions of China's 'Soft Power' in the United Arab Emirates: A Cross-Sectional Study, Office of Research, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2018 - 1 December 2019
Fellowship, Summer Research Fellow in Residence, Middle East Center, London School of Economics and Political Science, July 2019 - August 2019
Grant, Faculty Sabbatical Leave Award, American University of Sharjah, August 2016 - August 2017
Grant, Islam and Trust in Trade Diasporas: A Comparative Study of Muslim Merchants in Coastal China and the UAE, Office of Research, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2013 - 30 May 2015
Grant, Valuescapes of the U.A.E.: A National Survey of Worldviews among Undergraduate Students, Office of Research, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2010 - 30 May 2012
Fellowship, Pre-doctoral Fellowship, The Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning & College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame, IN, 1 September 2007 - 30 June 2008
Awards and Honors
Award for Excellence in Research, College of Arts and Sciences, American University of Sharjah, Humanities and Social Sciences, 10 April 2019
