Siyun Gan

Biography

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