Monica Liu, Professor of Justice & Society Studies, stands for a portrait outside on the St. Paul campus on August 16, 2022.

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Monica Liu

Monica Liu received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California – San Diego. She is currently Assistant Professor of Justice and Society Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Her work examines global internet dating and cross-border marriages between women from China and men from Western countries. Her research has been published in Men and Masculinities, Qualitative Sociology, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her monograph, Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China’s Global Rise was published in 2023. Born and raised in Wuhan by her grandparents, Liu immigrated to Boston at the age of eight.

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Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China’s Global Rise (Stanford University Press, 2023)

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