Jun Zhou

I am a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Michigan, with a graduate certificate in Science, Technology, and Society (STS). I am an ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Innovation Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Sociology (2024-2025).

My research sits at the intersection of gender, labor, technology, and political economy. 

I study how digitalization technologies, such as algorithms and AI, are reshaping gendered labor. I am a historically-minded ethnographer: I pair extended fieldwork with historical research to understand how today's technological disruptions echo and depart from earlier moments of capitalist restructuring.

My work has received external recognition from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Henry Luce Foundation, multiple sections of the American Sociological Association, the LaborTech Research Network, and Sociologists for Women in Society. 

I grew up in China and have spent over a decade living and working in the U.K. and the United States. This trajectory shapes my comparative, transdisciplinary approach to sociology.