Education
Ph.D., Syracuse University – Cultural Foundations of Education
M.S., Syracuse University – Cultural Foundations of Education
B.A., Hebei University – English
Research and teaching interests
Equity and social justice, comparative and international education, immigrant and refugee studies, women’s and gender studies, and educational and social development both locally and globally
Publications
Wang, Lifang. (2017). Negotiating the intersection of the urban-rural divide and gender in contemporary China: Rural female university students. Modern China, 43(6), 646–677.
Wang, Lifang. (2016). Counter-discourses and alternative knowledge: Rural Chinese female students accommodating and resisting the discourse of quality (suzhi) at higher education institutions in China. Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 7(1), 18–35. Available at: http://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/jiae/vol7/iss1/2
Ma, Yingyi and Wang, Lifang. (2016). Fairness in admission: Voices from rural Chinese female students in selective universities in Chinese mainland. Frontiers of Education in China, 11(1), 44–73.
Courses taught at Renison
ARTS 130 Social Justice and Social Development
ARTS 140 Social Change and Social Development
SDS 215R Education and Social Development from a Global Perspective
SDS 415R Gender and Education
SDS 450R Comparative and International Education