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Zhuang Han is a Research Fellow at the LSE–Fudan Global Public Policy Hub in the Department of Social Policy.
He earned his Ph.D. in Global Development from Cornell University, where his research and teaching bridged the study of social inequality, social change, public policy, and emerging digital economies.
Zhuang’s dissertation examines the experiences of the “Sanhe Gods”—young migrant workers in China who reject traditional factory employment in favor of daily-paid labor—revealing the structural barriers and policy gaps that shape the lives of marginalized youth in contemporary urban China. His work has appeared in leading academic outlets, including Population and Development Review and The Journal of Pediatrics. He has been recognized as an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant by Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and as an Amit Bhatia ’01 Global Ph.D. Research Scholar by the Einaudi Center for International Studies. Before Cornell, he earned dual degrees in Sociology and Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
Beyond academia, Zhuang has collaborated on multiple United Nations initiatives, including the Global Environment Outlook 7 (UNEP, UNECA, and UNFPA) and the development of an online training program titled “Youth Employability and Entrepreneurship: The Role of the Digital Economy” for UNECA. Drawing on both quantitative and ethnographic methodologies, his research seeks to inform evidence-based social policies that promote inclusive growth and expand equitable access to opportunity.