Jing-Mao Ho

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Data Science Program
Utica University

119 DePerno Hall
Utica University
1600 Burrstone Rd, Utica, NY 13502
Tel (Office): (315) 223-2310

Research | Teaching | Education | Others

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Research

I do theoretical and empirical research on topics at the intersection of sociology, statistics, and computer science.

• Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Fulkerson, Gregory, Alexander Thomas, Jing-Mao Ho, James Zians, Elizabeth Seale, Michael McCarthy, and Sallie Hanand, 2323. “COVID-19 and Social Capital Loss: The Results of a Campus Outbreak." Social Indicators Research: 165, 867–878. doi: 10.1007/s11205-022-03043-z
  
  • Ho, Jing-Mao and Abdullah Shahid, 2022. “Natural Language Processing for Exploring Culture in Finance: Theory and Applications” in Sinem Derindere Köseoğlu (Ed.) Financial Data Analytics Theory and Applications, Springer. ISBN-10: 303083798X [Amazon]
  
  • Cornwell, Benjamin, and Jing-Mao Ho. 2022. “Network Structure in Small Groups and Survival in Disasters.” Social Forces: 100 (3): 1357–1384 doi: 10.1093/sf/soab036
  • Featured in Podcast---TWiSP: This Week in Sociological Perspective, Hosted by Dr. Samuel Roundfield Lucas, Jun 25, 2021.
  
  • Ho, Jing-Mao, Yao-Tai Li, and Katherine Whitworth. 2021. “Unequal Discourses: Problems of the Current Model of World Health Development.” World Development 137:105176. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105176
  

• Manuscripts Under Review

  • Ho, Jing-Mao and Yao-Tai Li, 2022, “Global Health Discourse on COVID-19”
  • Thomas, Alexander, Gregory Fulkerson, and Jing-Mao Ho, 2022, “COVID and Community: Lessons from a College Outbreak.”

• Research Grants (Selected)

  • Co-PI (with Michael McCarthy and Stephanie Nesbitt), 2021, “Studying the Socioeconomic Impact of Economic Variations Caused by the COVID-19 Virus Across a Hierarchy of Cities”, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

• Work in Progress (Selected)

  • “The Criminological State”
  • “Why Does the Public Talk Back?”

• Conferences (Selected)

  • Ho, Jing-Mao, “The Criminological State”, Sociology Junior Theorist Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 10, 2018.
  • Ho, Jing-Mao, “Where Does World Society Come From?”, Future of World Society Theory, New York, NY, USA, August 9, 2019.
  • Ho, Jing-Mao, “The Institutionalization of a Global Profession: The Case of Statistics”, The Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14, 2018.
  • Ho, Jing-Mao, “Statistics as Statecraft”, The Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, QC, Canada, August 14, 2017.
  • Ho, Jing-Mao, “Statistics as Statecraft”, ISA Sociology Ph.D. Lab with the Annual Meetings of the British Sociological Association, Bermingham, UK, April 1, 2016.

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Teaching

• Publications

  • Ho, Jing-Mao, 2018. “Habitus in Big Classrooms” in Kimberly Williams, Eugene Law, and Runjini Raman (Ed.) Classroom Research Working Paper Series: Volume 5, Center for Teaching Innovation, Cornell University.
  

• Courses Taught at Utica University

  • Drugs and Society
  • Social Deviance
  • Criminology
  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Introduction to Data Science (graduate-level)
  • Statistical Methods (graduate-level)
  • Data Mining (graduate-level)
  • Machine Learning (graduate-level)
  • Data Visualilzation (graduate-level)
  • Capstone (graduate-level)

• Courses TA'd at Cornell University

  I was selected as a Graduate Fellow of the Center for Teaching Excellence (2014 - 2015).

  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Social Inequality
  • Controversies about Inequality
  • American Society through Film

• Courses TA'd at National Taiwan University

  • Theory of Computation (graduate-level)
  • Sociological Methodology (graduate-level)

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Education

• Ph.D. in Sociology, Cornell University
• Dissertation: Social Statisticalization: Number, State, Science
• Committee: David Strang (chair), Mabel Berezin, Martin Wells (Statistical Science), and Malte Ziewitz (Science & Technology Studies)
• Area Exams: Organizations; Social Networks
• M.A. in Sociology, National Taiwan University
• M.S. in Computer Science, National Taiwan University
• B.S. in Inofrmation Engineering, I-Shou University

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Others

• External Faculty Member (2022 - current) of Data Science Collaboratory.
• Regional Editor (2010 - 2019) of Global Dialogue.

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