Sociology Department

Xiaorui Huang

Ph.D. Student

Department

Sociology

Biography

Xiaorui Huang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Boston College. His research focuses on environmental sociology, political economy, global and transnational sociology, sociology of development, climate change, agrofood studies, and sustainability science. His main research agenda examines the environmental, energy, and human well-being implications of international trade, income inequality, and economic development. He has also published on quantitative methodology and agricultural communities’ engagement with natural resource and climate change issues. Xiaorui is a member of the Global Environmental Sociology Lab at Boston College.

Xiaorui’s dissertation focuses on developing an analytical framework to examine countries’ multidimensional contributions via international supply chains to global greenhouse gas emissions, and investigating how countries’ economic development, income inequality, and renewable energy development affect such contributions.

Xiaorui’s published work appears in disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals such as Social Science Research, Climatic Change, Sociological Forum, Sociological Methodology, Sociology of Development, Ecological Economics, Energy Research and Social Science, Environmental Research, Science of the Total Environment, and Human Ecology Review. Some of his work has received widespread media coverage in outlets such as National Geographic, Science Daily, and Phys.org. He is a co-editor and contributor of the forthcoming Springer Handbook of Environmental Sociology.

Teaching Positions

2018-Present, Teaching Fellow, Sociology Department, Boston College

2015-2018, Teaching Assistant, Sociology Department, Boston College