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  • Quan Mai
  • Quan Mai
  • Assistant Professor
  • PhD, Vanderbilt University in 2018
  • Email: quan.mai@sociology.rutgers.edu
  • Office: Davison Hall, 049
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  • Quan D. Mai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University in 2018. Dr. Mai’s research and teaching interests include work & occupations, social stratification, social movements, research methods, and environmental sociology. His scholarship focuses on how a range of social relations—including employment relations, race-ethnic relations, state regulatory capacity, and social movements—combine in the economy, polity, and in urban spaces to influence processes of social stratification. His current projects explore various consequences of nonstandard employment for workers’ labor market outcomes and socioeconomic well-being.

    He is a sociologist studying how work, race, and space shape various dimensions of social inequality in the labor market. His recent publications analyze the institutional drivers of work precarity in a cross-national setting. His current research examines how the experience of nonstandard employment shapes various aspects of workers’ lives, including their well-being and labor market prospects. In another related line of research, he explores the interaction between multiple media platforms, political institutions, and social movements. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in Social Forces, Social Science & Medicine, Research in the Sociology of Work, Labor History, ​and other academic journals.

  • In the Public Eye:
    • Interviewed by Slate's "Better Life Lab" podcast about the effects of gig work on sleep, April 21, 2022
  • Faculty Article(s):
  • Employment insecurity and sleep disturbance: Evidence from 31 European countries
  • Precarious sleep? Nonstandard work, gender, and sleep disturbance in 31 European countries
  • Precarious Work in Europe: Assessing Cross-National Differences and Institutional Determinants of Work Precarity in 32 European Countries
  • Unclear Signals, Uncertain Prospects: The Labor Market Consequences of Freelancing in the New Economy
  • Program Areas:
  • Environment and Sustainability
  • Organizations, Networks, and Work
  • Politics and Social Movements
  • Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

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