Zed Zhipeng Gao
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, Health and Gender
The American University of Paris
Academic Background
I am Assistant Professor of psychology at the American University of Paris. Here is my university profile: https://www.aup.edu/profile/zgao
I have an interdisciplinary academic background, with a PhD in historical, theoretical and critical studies of psychology followed by postdoctoral research in sociology and anthropology.
Research Expertise
My research falls in two clusters. The first cluster stems from my doctoral dissertation on the history of psychology in Chinese communism. I have been trying to expand this topic to post-communism including its neoliberal twist. The second cluster is about Chinese immigrants, especially with regard to their identity & belonging amid geopolitical conflicts. I approach this topic with several frameworks, including transnationalism, (de)globalization, and indigenous psychology. This line of inquiry has brought me to poststructuralism, which helps me conceptualize the fragmentation of diaspora as well as keeps me marveling about the (post)-Enlightenment questions (such as rationality, post-truth, and identity politics).
I published over 20 journal articles and book chapters. My works can be found in Review of General Psychology, Theory & Psychology, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Social Anthropology, Narrative Inquiry, History of Psychology, History of Science, etc. I also edited special issues of journal Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science (Springer) and journal Theory & Psychology (Sage). I serve on the editorial board of Theory & Psychology journal. See my Google Scholar for a complete list.
Awards
Distinguished Early Career Contributions in Qualitative Inquiry Award, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, Division 5 of the American Psychological Association, 2022
Early Career Award, Society for the History of Psychology, Division 26 of the American Psychological Association, 2022
Outstanding Early Career Psychologist Award (outside the US), International Psychology, Division 52 of American Psychological Association, 2020
Young Scholar Award, Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2019
Certificate of Academic Excellence, Canadian Psychological Association, 2019