Philip Yang holds a Ph.D. degree in sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles (1993) and is currently professor of sociology at Texas Woman’s University (TWU). Yang is the author of Asian Immigration to the United States (Polity, 2011), Ethnic Studies: Issues and Approaches (SUNY Press, 2000) and Post-1965 Immigration to the United States: Structural Determinants (Praeger, 1995) and the editor of Transnationalism and Genealogy (MDPI, 2021) and Introduction to Ethnic Studies: A Reader (Kendall/Hunt, 1999). He has published more than 90 articles on immigration, citizenship, transnationalism, race and ethnicity, Asian Americans/immigrants, Chinese immigration and immigrants, demography, and health studies in numerous peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. His research has received funding from various sources including the National Science Foundation. Yang’s article “A Theory of Asian Immigration to the United States” won the Research Paper Award of the Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association in 2011. Yang was named a TWU Chancellor’s Research Fellow multiple times and received the TWU Distinction in Scholarship Award in 2017. He was a recipient of the 2019 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.