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School of Psychology, Sociology and Rural Studies

Weiwei Zhang

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Title

Associate Professor

Office Building

Psychology, Sociology and Rural Studies

Office

215

Mailing Address

Ag Engineering 215
School of Psych, Soc & Rural Studies-Box 2120
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Education

  • PHD | Brown University
  • M.A. | Bowling Green State University
  • B.A. | Suzhou University, China

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-Population Estimates, 2015-present
  • Membership Committee, Rural Sociological Society, 2017-present
  • Nomination and Election Committee, Midwest Sociological Society, 2017-2021

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:

  1. "Makiyutab Wokiksuye Ocanku (Memorial Road Map)" Wokini Challenge Grant. The Wokini Initiative.
  2. "EAGER: PBI: Collaboration Patterns and Socio-Economic Impacts Analysis in Emerging Science and Technology with Machine Learning Algorithms" NSF
  3. "Socio-Environmental Systems of Rural Health" SPARC Funding.
  4. "Analyzing Deaths of Despair Determinants in Rural Areas with Spatiotemporal Considerations". SPARC Funding.
  5. “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.
  6. “South Dakota Statewide Health Assessment”. South Dakota Department of Health. 
  7. “South Dakota Community Vulnerability Assessment Project”. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)/Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
  8. “2020 Census Count Review”. U.S. Census Bureau.
  9. “Projections of Freshman Cohort Enrollment to 2033 at South Dakota State University”. Institutional Research and Assessment.
  10. “K-12 Enrollment Projections to 2025”. Brookings School District Board.
  11. “Rural Hunger Mapping”. Feeding South Dakota.
  12. “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.
  13. “Mapping Historical Landscapes in Lakota Narratives”. South Dakota Humanities Council.
  14. “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.

Areas of Research

  • Quantitative, demographic and spatial methods
  • Statistics
  • Demography
  • Migration and immigration
  • Population health

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