Welcome!

I am Wenqi Yang, a scholar-educator and Visiting Assistant Professor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wake Forest University. Prior to joining Wake, I was an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at Grinnell College, with a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 

As a feminist researcher, my focus is centered on exploring the evident and latent forms of gendered violence experienced by Chinese and Chinese-American populations. I have presented my findings in refereed journals (Feminist Criminology, Qualitative Research, and China Information) and at numerous conferences. I am excited to announce that my first book, When Law Says Little: China's Morality-based Police Mediation in Domestic Violence Incidents, is now under contract with Oxford University Press! As an educator, I am interested in courses addressing gender-based violence, transnational feminism(s), reproductive justice, and research methodology.