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HANNAH C. WAIGHT 107 Wallace Hall [email protected] Princeton, NJ 08540 EDUCATION Princeton University 2021 Ph.D., Sociology (expected) 2017 M.A., Sociology Harvard University 2014 M.A., Regional Studies: East Asia 2010 B.A., East Asian Studies RESEARCH INTERESTS sociology of media and information; contemporary China; computational social science; history of social thought PUBLICATIONS Under Review “Decline of the Sociological Imagination? Social Change and Perceptions of Economic Polarization in the United States, 1966-2009” (with Adam Goldstein) Using forty years of public opinion polls, we explain historical trends in perceptions of distributional inequality, a trend which tracks inversely with the underlying phenomena. “John Dewey and the Pragmatist Revival in American Sociology” This manuscript analyzes John Dewey’s writings on the social sciences and contrasts Dewey’s perspective with contemporary uses of Dewey’s ideas in American sociology. Manuscripts in Preparation “Identifying Propaganda in China” (with Molly Roberts, Brandon Stewart, and Yin Yuan) This computational project employs a novel data set of Chinese newspapers from 2012 to 2020 to examine the prevalence and content of government media control in China. Works in Progress “Attention and Propaganda Chains in Contemporary China” (with Eliot Chen) This survey experiment combines a traditional vignette design with a text-as-treatment framework to examine the effects of source labels on respondent attention to state propaganda in China. Other Writing “Moral Economies and Economic Moralities in Recent Publications.” ASA Economic Sociology Accounts Newsletter. Summer 2017. FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS Fellowships 2018 Lawrence S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellowship ($36,000), Princeton University Center for Human Values 2014 Harvard University Graduate Fellowship Grants and Awards 2020 Princeton Center for Contemporary China grant ($5,000) 2020 Princeton Data-Driven Social Science Initiative small grant ($5,000) 2019 Princeton Center for Contemporary China grant ($5,000) 2019 Graduate student paper award, American Sociological Association History of Sociology section 2018 Princeton Center for the Study of Social Organization grant ($2,000) 2018 Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies grant ($1,000) 2017 Marvin Bressler Graduate Student Teaching Award 2016 Princeton Center for the Study of Social Organization grant ($5,000) 2015 Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies grant ($5,000) SELECTED PRESENTATIONS “Decline of the Sociological Imagination? Social Change and Perceptions of Economic Polarization in the United States, 1966-2009” (with Adam Goldstein) 2019 American Sociological Association, New York, NY “Mobility Knowledge in the Anglo-American Social Sciences, 1887-1950” 2019 Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA (upcoming) 2018 Social Science History Association, Phoenix, AZ “Informal Household Finance and Kinship Networks in Rural China” 2016 North American Chinese Sociologists Association, Seattle, WA 2016 Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Berkeley, CA “Dewey’s Views of Social Science” 2015 Pragmatism and Sociology Conference, Chicago, IL (with Neil Gross) 2 HANNAH C. WAIGHT 107 Wallace Hall [email protected] Princeton, NJ 08544 TEACHING AND ADVISING Instructor Princeton Freshman Scholars Institute 2020 FSI SOC: Visualizing Society Co-Instructor Princeton Prison Teaching Initiative 2018 English Composition, Spring 2017 Introduction to Sociology, Spring 2016 Introduction to Sociology, Spring 2015 Sociology of Inequality, Spring Teaching Assistant Princeton University 2018 Princeton University Preparatory Program, Academic Year 2017 Sociological Theory, Spring (Prof. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly) 2016 Money, Work, and Social Life, Fall (Prof. Viviana Zelizer) 2016 Contemporary China, Spring (Prof. Yu Xie) 2015 Sociological Research Methods, Fall (Prof. Margaret Frye) Harvard University 2011 The Political Economy of China’s Market Reforms (Prof. Nara Dillon) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, LANGUAGES, AND SKILLS 2019 Graduate Student Representative, ASA History of Sociology Section 2016 Co-Editor, Accounts, ASA Economic Sociology Section Reviewer for Sociological Theory (x3) and the American Journal of Sociology (x1) Proficient in modern Mandarin Chinese Programming languages: R 3 .