Professor Ma is the co-editor of (2017), which has won the Honorable mention of the Best Book Award from the Study Abroad and International Students Section, Comparative and International Education Association. Her new book, , discusses how a students from China must navigate both their life as young adults and the complications between U.S. and China relations while attending American universities and what this experience means to them.
Professor Ma has received grants from the National Science Foundation, Alfred Sloan Foundation, and Association of Institutional Research. Ma is also a Public Intellectual Fellow (2019 鈥� 2020) for the National Committee of Us-China Relations. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 2007.
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