Yu Guo

Dr. Yu Guo serves as an Assistant Professor of Sociology within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Mercer University, a position she assumed in fall 2022. Prior to Mercer, she taught at Albright College in Pennsylvania for three years following completion of her doctoral studies at the University of Maryland. Her academic trajectory centers on dissecting social hierarchies through rigorous sociological frameworks.

Her educational foundation includes:

• Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Maryland at College Park
• M.A. in Sociology from the University of Maryland at College Park
• B.A. from Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Dr. Guo's research interrogates social inequality through dual lenses: political economy theories of class and intersectionality frameworks addressing race, gender, and class interplay. Her fieldwork in Chinese factories examining rural migrant workers' lived experiences within global economic systems demonstrates her empirical rigor. She further investigates cultural manifestations of inequality, including sexual double standards across ethnic groups in the United States, revealing how macro-structural forces shape micro-level social dynamics.

Her publication record reveals consistent thematic focus across diverse methodological approaches. Works span theoretical dialogues on class and intersectionality, ethnographic studies of Chinese migrant labor, cross-cultural analyses of sexuality, and demographic investigations of migration's health impacts. A unifying thread connects globalization's structural pressures to intimate life domains like family, labor, and cultural identity, often through comparative or cross-cultural methodologies.

Dr. Guo teaches core sociology curriculum including Introductory Sociology, Research Methods, and Sociological Theory, alongside specialized courses in Globalization, Social Class, and Gender and Sexuality. Her pedagogy employs student-centered techniques with diverse classroom activities. Student evaluations consistently highlight her organizational clarity, subject mastery, passionate delivery, and approachable demeanor as defining instructional strengths.