Faculty

Office: 322 Manchester Hall
Telephone: (860) 486-8814
E-Mail: simon.cheng@uconn.edu (*** for permission numbers, please see the Department's policy here).

Biographical Statement:

Simon Cheng joined the University of Connecticut in the spring of 2004. His academic interests include race/ethnicity, education, family, political economy, and quantitative methods. Simon has published articles in these areas and is currently working on several others. His most recent studies focus on the educational experiences of multiracial multiracial adolescent, multiracial perceptions, and adolescent sexuality. Simon loves playing tennis.

Education:

2003 Ph.D. Sociology, Indiana University , Bloomington

Recent Publications:

Werum, Regina E., Simon Cheng, and Tomeka Davis (equal authorship). Forthcoming. "How Institutional Context Alters Social Reproduction Dynamics: Ethnic Track Placement Patterns in the U.S. and Germany." Forthcoming at Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.

Cheng, Simon and Brian Powell. Forthcoming. "Misclassification By Whom? A Comment on Campbell and Troyer." Forthcoming at American Sociological Review.

Cheng, Simon and Joshua Klugman. 2010. "School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents' School Attachment." The Sociological Quarterly 51: 150-178.

Gusrang, Jamie and Simon Cheng. 2010. "Comparing Government Influences and Community Involvements on Abstinence Only Programs in 1999 and 2004: An Examination of Policy Shift." American Journal of Sexuality Education 5: 240-267.

Cheng, Simon and Kathryn J. Lively. 2009. "Multiracial Self-Identification and Adolescent Outcomes: A Social Psychological Approach to the Marginal Man Theory." Social Forces 88: 61-98.

Cheng, Simon, Yingmei Xi, and Ming Hui Chen. 2008. "A New Mixture Model for Misclassification with Applications for Survey Data." Sociological Methods & Research 37: 75-104.

Cheng, Simon and J Scott Long. 2007. "Testing for IIA in the Multinomial Logit Model."Sociological Methods & Research 35: 583-600.

Cheng, Simon and Brian Powell. 2007. "Under and Beyond Constraints: Resource Allocation to Young Children From Biracial Families." American Journal of Sociology 112: 1044-1094.

Cheng, Simon, Regina E. Werum, and Leslie Martin. 2007. "Adult Social Capital: How Family and Community Ties Shape Track Placement of Ethnic Groups in Germany." American Journal of Education 114:41-74

Hamiliton, Laura, Simon Cheng, and Brian Powell. 2007. "Adoptive Parents, Adaptive Parents: Evaluating the Importance of Biological Ties for Parental Investment." American Sociological Review. 72: 95-116