Yifei Li

Yifei Li is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai and Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU. His research concerns both the macro-level implications of Chinese environmental governance for state-society relations, marginalized populations, and global ecological sustainability, as well as the micro-level bureaucratic processes of China’s state interventions into the environmental realm. He has received research support from the United States National Science Foundation, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, and the China Times Cultural Foundation, among other extramural sources. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.