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Weijun Yuan is an Assistant Instructional Professor of Sociology in MAPSS. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine.

Professor Yuan’s research interests include collective action, networks, organizations, and media. She uses digital trace data and computational methods to study the network dynamics and cultural outcomes of collective action. Her latest project examines the boundary-spanning behaviors of activist groups—how activists with conflicting identities and interests came to endorse one another, build consensus, and strive for resilience amid repressions. Her work has appeared in Social Forces, Sociological Forum, and Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change. Her research has received awards from the American Sociological Association and funding from The BIGSSS Computational Social Science Summer Schools and Research Incubator, China Scholarship Council, Institute for Humane Studies, Summer Institute in Computational Social Sciences, among others.

Professor Yuan has published papers using a variety of methods, including network analysis, natural language processing (in English, Spanish, and Chinese), regression analysis, causal inference, content analysis, comparative historical analysis, and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). She teaches courses on collective action/social movements, social networks, organizations, and computational methods.

Before graduate school, Yuan worked as a researcher and project coordinator at The Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, Costa Rica. She received her BA from Tsinghua University and MA from the University of California, San Diego.

For more information, please visit her website.