Dr. Man-Kit Lei is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and a core faculty member of the Center on Biological Embedding of Social Events and Relationships. He earned, from the National Taiwan University, an LL.B. in Economic and Financial Law Division in 1999 and an M.A. in Sociology in 2001. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Georgia in 2013. His contributions to the field have been acknowledged through numerous publications in esteemed social science journals. He has been recognized with several prestigious awards, such as the Gene Carte Award, the Joan Petersilia Outstanding Article Award from the American Society of Criminology, the Donal MacNamara Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Best Paper Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Evolution, Biology & Society, etc. His teaching and research areas encompass diverse topics, including the sociology of health, criminology, structural inequality, family and neighborhood studies, and quantitative methods.