2025 Recipient

Di Zhou

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Di Zhou is a PhD candidate in sociology at New York University. Her research focuses on Marxist class theory, class-based inequality, and computational methods. Her dissertation proposes a task-based class identification model that measures class based on production relations. 

Personal website: https://di-zhou.github.io/

 

 

2025 Winner: Redesigning the Measure of Class: The American Class Structure Revisited