Curriculum Vitae
Lei WANG
Ph.D Candidate of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Indiana University
2200 East Lingelbach Lane, Apt 1303 E-mail: leiwang@indiana.edu Bloomington, IN, 47408 Cell Phone: 812-225-1133 Academic Degrees
Ph. D. Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.2004-present (Graduation Expected: December 2011)
M.A. International Politics, School of International Studies, Renmin University, Beijing, China, 1997-2000
B.A. History Education, Department of History, Hubei University, China ,1992-96 Related Working Experience
Instructor, EDUC-U212: Rising Power of Asia and Its Challenge to American Education, Fall/ Spring 2010-2011, Indiana University.
Co-designed with another doctoral candidate and taught at weekly basis to undergraduate students. Graduate Assistant, International Programs Committee, School of Education, Indiana University. 2009-2010
Colloquium Coordinator, East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University. 2010-2011.
Research Assistant with Professor Heidi Ross, Educational Policy Studies (Funded by Spencer Foundation—Discipline Based Scholarship in Education). Indiana University, 2005-2007
Participating in a longitudinal survey project: “Schooling, Girls’ Identity and Educational Expectations in Rural Shaanxi, China.
Participating in a “Pathway to Peace--Photovoice” Project, which intends to help eighth graders in a U.S school and a Chinese rural school understand each other’s lives through exchange of the pictures they took at their school, home and in society in each country.
Lecturer, courses taught including: “International Politics and Economy”, “Chinese Contemporary Foreign Policy (After 1949)”, and “Introduction to Korean Society and Culture”, Beijing International Studies University. 2000-2002.
Assistant Editor, Journal of Yuyang Normal College, 1996-1997. Publications
Ross, H. Shah, P. & Wang, L. (2011, forthcoming). Situating Empowerment for Millennial School Girls in Gujarat, India and Shaanxi, China. The Feminist Formations, The Johns Hopkins University Press. Ross, H. & Wang, L (co-edited). Chinese Education and Society, Special Issue on Vocational
Education. (forthcoming in 2012)
Ross.H. & Wang, L. (2009，September). A Report on “the Chinese Girls’ Middle School Principals Survey’”, In Y. Li (Eds.), Educational Research and Practice on Girls’ School Students (in Chinese), Beijing: Huawen Press. 296-315.
Wang, L. (2008, November). Nurturing Female Leaders for China: A Report on the Shanghai Leadership Summer Camp. The 1990 Institute Newsletter, XIX(2).
Ross. H. and Wang, L. (2008). Learning to Lead: Challenging Girls in Rural Chinese Schools, Girlhood
Studies, 1 (1). 81-113
Ross, H., Lou, J. & Wang, L. (2008). Keeping the Promise: Findings from the 1990 Institute Spring Bud Project. The 1990 Institute Newsletter, XIX(1).
http://1990institute.org/files/public/1990/newsletter/1990InstNewsletter_mar08.pdf
Ross, H., Lou, J., Wang, L., Ran, Z, Cen, Y. (2007). Chapter of China, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of
Children's Issues Worldwide. .
Wang, X., Wang, L., et al (1999). History of the United Nations, Beijing: World Press (In Chinese). Wang, L. (1999). Sino-U.S. Relations in Bill Clinton Period: From the Perspective of Taiwan Issue”,
Journal of Yunyang Normal College 19(1), 46-50. (In Chinese)
Wang, L and Lu, C.(1999). The Shaken Earth: Ten Challenges that Human Beings are Facing, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press. (In Chinese)
Wang, X., Wang, L., Li, M. (August, 8. 1999). World Political Structure in the 20th Century: The Cold War Period”, Bejing Evening News, 17. (In Chinese)
Wang, L. (1998). Kofi Annan and the UN reform, Journal of School of International Relations, 2. Beijing: Renmin University. 20-24.
Conference Presentations
Wang, L (2011). Girls’ Aspirations, Education, and Development: Findings from a Longitudinal Study of the Shaanxi Spring Bud Project, 2000-2010, presented at the annual meeting of Comparative and
Wang, L. (2010). I Want a Good Future: Post-compulsory Education, Girls’ Aspirations and
Expectations, and Empowerment, presented at the annual meeting of Comparative and International Education Society, Chicago.
Ross, H & Wang, L . (2010). Beyond Nine-Year Compulsory Education: Rural girls’ Pathways and Life Aspirations and Expectations, presented at the annual meeting of American Education Research
Association, Denver.
Ross, H & Wang, L. (2008). Educating Girls as Community Leaders: Contradictions in One Spring Bud project in China’s Northwest, presented at the annual meeting of Comparative and International
Education Society, New York.
Wang, L. (2008). The Challenges of Leadership Training in Girls, Education and Development Programs: A Case Study from Rural China, presented at the annual meeting of American Education Research Association, New York.
Ross, H., Wang, L. (2007). Chinese Rural Teachers and Principals’ Attitudes on Girls’ Educational Abilities and Achievement”, presented at the annual meeting of Comparative and International Educational Society, Baltimore, Maryland.
Ross, H., Wang, L. (2006). Girls’ Educational Aspirations in Rural Shaanxi, China, presented at the annual meetings of Comparative and International Educational Society, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Wang, L. (2006). From Access to Empowerment –A Case Study of the ‘Spring Bud” Girls’ Educational Project in Shaanxi, China, Presented at the Annual Meetings of Comparative and International
Educational Society, Honolulu, Hawaii. Invited Addresses
Guest Speaker at the Graduate Course: Gender, Education and Development, “I Want to Have a Good Future—the Aspirations and Expectations of Chinese Rural and poor Girls”, October, 12, 2009. Guest Speaker at the Graduate Course: Comparative Education, “Situating Empowerment”, April, 28. 2008.
Guest Speaker at the East Asian Studies Center, “Beyond Access: Reflections on What School Does for (and to) Rural Children and Spring Bud girls”, September 15, 2007.
Guest Speaker at China Tour Orientation for the Indiana Department of Education. “Overview of Chinese Education System”, January 27, 2007.
Guest Speaker at the Graduate Seminar of Policy Implementation, “Policy implementation on Girls’ Educational Project in China”, February, 20, 2006.
Selected Public Services
Goodwill Ambassador of School of Education, Indiana University, 2005-Present Volunteer of a US-based NGO, 1990 Institute Girls’ Education Project. 2005-Present
Coordinator of International Projects, Children’s Department, Shaanxi Women’s Federation, China, Summer 2007
Translator for the Microloan Project, collaborated between Inner Mongolia Women’s Federation ( China) and Feeding the Hunger Foundation (U.S.A.) , October 2008.
Selected Scholarships, Grants, and Honors 1990 Institute Dissertation Research Grant, 2010
East Asian Conference Travel Grant, Indiana University, 2010 and 2008.
Beetchler Dissertation Proposal Award, School of Education, Indiana University, 2008. International Conference Travel Grant, School of Education, Indiana University, 2008
Associate of Discipline-Based Scholarship in Education (DBSE), Indiana University, 2006-2007 Trainee of Discipline-Based Scholarship in Education (DBSE), Indiana University, 2005-2006
Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Grant, the Friends of the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, December, 2006.
Pre-dissertation Summer Grant, Indiana University, June-July, 2006. Outstanding Graduate Scholarship, Renmin university, 1998-1999 Second Prize Scholarship, Hubei University, 1994-1995
Top Prize Scholarship, Hubei University, 1993-1994 Excellent Summer Survey Report, Hubei University, 1993
References
For Academic Performance
Heidi Ross Margaret Sutton Barbara Dennis
Director of the Dissertation Committee
Dissertation Committee Member Dissertation Committee Member
Professor of Educational Policy Studies & Director of East Asian Studies Center
Indiana University
Associate Professor
Educational Policy Studies Indiana University
Associate Professor,
Counseling and Educational Psychology & Inquiry Methodology
Indiana University 201 North Rose Avenue
Room 4238
201 North Rose Avenue Room 4254
201 North Rose Avenue Room 4016
Bloomington, IN, 47405-1006 Bloomington, IN, 47405-1006 Bloomington, IN, 47405-1006 Phone: 812-856-8389 Phone: 812-856-8368 Phone: 812-856-8142
Email: haross@indiana.edu Email: msutton@indiana.edu Email: bkdennis@indiana.edu
For Public Service
Rosalyn Koo Wang Hong
Director of the Spring Bud Girls’ Educational Project, the 1990 Institute
Then- Vice President of Shaanxi Women’s Federation
One Baldwin Avenue, Apt. 818 San Mateo, CA, 94401
No.57 Yucai Road, Yanta Road South, Shaanxi Women’s Federation,
Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China, 710054 Phone: 650-558-8151 Phone: 011-86-13991996321
