Yan Long

Yan Long is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and incoming Co-Director of Berkeley Global Metropolitan Studies. She is a political sociologist whose research examines how globalization and China co-constitute one another, with a focus on public health, urban governance, international organizations, gender, and technology. Her current book project investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic, in tandem with rapidly expanding digital tools, has transformed China’s urban bureaucracy by reshaping governance practices, state capacity, and everyday state-society interactions. Her scholarship has been widely recognized, earning 13 national and international awards including the 2026 Joseph Levenson Prize.