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Education

• 2023 Ph.D. Rural Sociology and Demography (dual title), The Pennsylvania State University
  Dissertation: Environmental Migration in the United States: A Spatio-Temporal Perspective, 1970-2020.
• 2019 M.S. Rural Sociology and Demography (dual title), The Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests

• Environmental Migration; Environmental Health; Spatial Demography; Agri-food Sustainability; Computational and Geospatial Analysis.

Biography

Dr. Shuai Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at 911爆料网. He received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Zhou鈥檚 research focuses on population-environment dynamics to promote human well-being and sustainable development in the context of global environmental changes and social transformations. Dr. Zhou approaches his research agenda through innovative demographic, computational, and geospatial techniques. Specifically, Dr. Zhou鈥檚 research areas include environmental migration and health, spatial demography, agri-food sustainability, and quantitative methods.

Selected Publications

• Zhou, Shuai and Guangqing Chi. 2024. 鈥淗ow Do Environmental Stressors Influence
  Migration? A Meta-regression Analysis of the Environmental Migration Literature.鈥�
  Demographic Research. 50: 41鈥�100.

• Zhou, Shuai, Guangqing Chi, Huanguang Qiu, Zhen Lei, Erica A.H. Smithwick, and Jiquan
  Chen. 2024. 鈥淩elocation preference and settlement: Lessons from the Poverty Alleviation
  Relocation Program in China.鈥� PLOS One. 19(10): e0309534.

• Chi, Guangqing, Shuai Zhou, Megan Mucioki, Jessica Miller, Ekrem Korkut, Lance Howe,
  Junjun Yin, Davin Holen, Heather Randell, Ayse Akyildiz, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Lara
  Fowler, James Ford, and Ann R. Tickamyer. 2024. 鈥淐limate Impacts on Migration in the
  Arctic North America: Existing Evidence and Research Recommendations.鈥� Regional
  Environmental Change. 24: 47.

• Anderson, Cory, Shuai Zhou, and Guangqing Chi. 2023. 鈥淧opulation-Wide Vaccination
  Hesitancy among the Amish: A County-Level Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Adoption and
  Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice.鈥� Population Research and Policy Review.
  42: 70.

• Li, Yanling, Zita Oravecz, Shuai Zhou, Yosef Bodovski, Ian J. Barnett, Naomi P. Friedman,
  Guangqing Chi, Scott I. Vrieze, and Sy-Miin Chow. 2022. 鈥淏ayesian Forecasting with a
  Regime-Switching Zero-Inflated Multilevel Poisson Regression Model: An Application to
  Adolescent Alcohol Use with Spatial Covariates.鈥� Psychometrika. 87(2): 376鈥�402.

• Zhou, Shuai, Yanling Li, Guangqing Chi, Junjun Yin, Zita Oravecz, Yosef Bodovski, Naomi
  P. Friedman, Scott I. Vrieze, and Sy-Miin Chow. 2021. 鈥淕PS2space: An Open-source
  Python Library for Spatial Measure Extraction from GPS Data.鈥� Journal of Behavioral Data
  Science. 1(2): 127鈥�155.

Courses

• SY 411: Population

• SY511: Introduction to Population