Siyun Gan
Position title: Doctoral Student, Educational Policy Studies
Email: sgan8@wisc.edu
Website: Siyun Gan's website
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Siyun Gan is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gan is interested in how certain cultural schemas of inequality, particularly the meritocratic schema and how the belief that success is determined by hard work shapes students’ educational stratification processes.
Research areas: Educational inequality and stratification; Stratification beliefs; Immigration and education; Meritocracy
IDS Affiliate Faculty Supervisor: Ran Liu