Department of Sociology Faculty

Gabe T. Wang

Gabe T. Wang (Professor and Department Chairperson) received his B.A. degree from Yunnan University, his undergraduate sociological education from Whitman College, his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Brigham Young University, followed by one year of postdoctoral research at the Research Institute on Addictions in Buffalo, NY.

Professor Wang teaches Juvenile Delinquency, Population and Development in Asia,, Senior Seminar in Crime and Criminal Justice, and graduate courses Research Methods and Juvenile Delinquency.

His research interests include cross-cultural comparative studies, population and development, and adolescent deviant behavior in both the United States and China. Professor Wang's books are China and the Taiwan Issue: Incoming War at Taiwan Strait (Maryland: University Press of America, 2006) A Comparative Study of the Extrinsic and Intrinsic Work Values of Employees in the United States and Japan (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996), and China's Population: Problems, Thoughts, and Policies (England: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 1999). His scholarly papers have appeared in the International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, Youth & Society, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Journal of Social History, Family Perspective, China Report, Asian Political and Economic Issues, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and in several published books.

Between 2001 and 2005, Prof. Wang was director of the WPU Asian Studies Program. Between 2001 and 2004, he was a member of the U.S. Fulbright Student Selection Committee. Between 1999 and 2000, he was a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of the Chinese Political Studies in the U.S. Prof. Wang has also given invited lectures on social research, population, and juvenile delinquency in several universities and research institutes in China in 1995, 1996, 1999, 2002 and 2004. Supported by the Fulbright Hay grant, Professor Wang visited many places in India with other educators from New Jersey and New York areas during the summer of 2006.

Professor Wang was recognized as an outstanding Asian-American Business and Community leader by Bergen Community College’s Asian History and Heritage Committee in 2003. In 2002, He was an honorary research fellow for the Linguistics and Cultural Research Institute at Nanjing Normal University and a guest professor of Southwestern China Normal University. In 2001, he received an Undergraduate Asian Studies Program grant from the U.S Department of Education. In 1997, he was rewarded two-year fellowship by the National University of Singapore. In 1996, his paper, Social Control and Adolescent Deviant Behavior, was given the First Award by the Chinese Sociological Association. He was a Special Research Scientist at Yunnan Social Science Academy in China between 1995 and 2000.