Weiwei Zhang
Associate Professor
Education
- Ph.D. | Brown University
- M.A. | Bowling Green State University
- B.A. | Suzhou University, China
Academic and Professional Experience
Academic Responsibilities
- Undergraduate courses: Research Methods I, Research Methods II, Introduction to Sociology, Investigating the Social World, Population Studies, Capstone
- Graduate seminars: Advanced Statistics, Spatial Data Analysis, Immigrant and Community, Spatial Thinking in Social Sciences, Community Analysis
Committees and Professional Memberships
Committees:
- SDSU Information Technology Advisory Committee, 2019-present
- Department Scholarship Committee, chair, 2017-2020
- Department Methods Prelim Committee, chair, 2015-present
Professional Memberships:
- State demographer, 2015-present
- State representative, Federal-State Cooperative for Population Estimates, 2015-present
- Membership Committee, Rural Sociological Society, 2017-present
- Nomination and Election Committee, Midwest Sociological Society, 2017-2021
Research and Scholarly Work
Areas of Research
- Quantitative, demographic and spatial methods
- Statistics
- Demography
- Migration and immigration
- Population health
Awards and Honors
- Outstanding Researcher, South Dakota State University, 2020
- Graduate Student Paper Mentor, Great Plains Sociological Association, 2018 and 2019
- State Data Center Certificate of Appreciation, U.S. Census Bureau, 2018
Grants
Selected Grants and Contracts:
- "Makiyutab Wokiksuye Ocanku (Memorial Road Map)" Wokini Challenge Grant. The Wokini Initiative.
- "EAGER: PBI: Collaboration Patterns and Socio-Economic Impacts Analysis in Emerging Science and Technology with Machine Learning Algorithms" NSF
- "Socio-Environmental Systems of Rural Health" SPARC Funding.
- "Analyzing Deaths of Despair Determinants in Rural Areas with Spatiotemporal Considerations". SPARC Funding.
- “Influence of Affective Statistics and Visual Platforms on the Interpretation of Public Health Data”. McComish Interdisciplinary Faculty Research Program, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
- “South Dakota Statewide Health Assessment”. South Dakota Department of Health.
- “South Dakota Community Vulnerability Assessment Project”. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)/Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
- “2020 Census Count Review”. U.S. Census Bureau.
- “Projections of Freshman Cohort Enrollment to 2033 at South Dakota State University”. Institutional Research and Assessment.
- “K-12 Enrollment Projections to 2025”. Brookings School District Board.
- “Rural Hunger Mapping”. Feeding South Dakota.
- “Mapping Land History in Pine Ridge: A Pilot Project to Develop a Protocol for Collaborating with Tribal Communities on Land Research”. College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
- “Mapping Historical Landscapes in Lakota Narratives”. South Dakota Humanities Council.
- “Unfolding the Settlement History of Prairie Pioneers: A Historical GIS Project of South Dakota Homesteaders from 1862 to 1920”. Office of Research Assurance and Sponsored Programs.
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