Cheng Cheng

Dr Cheng Cheng is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Lee Kong Chian Fellow 2022-2024. She joined SMU in 2020. Her research interests center on gender, family, health, and aging. Her work focuses on understanding the production of social inequality through the lens of the family. She studies how extended family relationships shape gender power dynamics, wealth and income inequalities, and health disparities.

Her work has appeared in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Science & Medicine, Chinese Sociological Review, and Journal of Family Psychology, among others. She is a Council Member of the Population Association of Singapore for 2022-2025. Cheng received her PhD from Princeton University in Sociology with a concentration in Demography. She completed her BA (Comprehensive Honors) in Sociology with a concentration in Analysis and Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Qualifications

• PhD in Sociology, Princeton University, 2018
• MA in Sociology, Princeton University, 2015
• BA in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012

Research Interests

• Gender
• Family
• Ageing
• Health
• Demography
• Stratification
• Quantitative Methods

Course(s) Taught in SMU

• Gender and Family
• Research Methods in Sociology and Political Science