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Next up in our QUEST Research Lab Spotlight is the work of Dr. Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng!!

Dr. Cherng is a sociologist in the Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities department at Steinhardt. His scholarly & community-based work focuses on the social lives of marginalized youth. With doctoral students Jia-Lin Liu & Martha Moreno, he serves as a mentor to QUEST Scholars AnaCristina Bedoya & Mel Ceren✨.

Dr. Cherng's research examines the social relationships in the lives of minority & immigrant adolescents in the US, gender & ethnic differences in education in China, and cultural & social capital transfers between adolescents in the US.