Visiting Scholar
Centre for Modern China, University of Würzburg, Germany
Research Fellow
Dr Dong Li
Cultural sociology · Sociology of crime · Narrative sociology · Correctional social work
Dong Li is a Lecturer in the School of History and Sociology at Chongqing Normal University. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Xiamen University. Her research spans cultural sociology, the sociology of crime, narrative sociology, and correctional social work, with a particular focus on drug governance, the life narratives of people convicted of drug offences, and the relationships between punishment, social order, and moral experience.
02Education & Visiting Fellowship
PhD in Sociology
Department of Sociology, Xiamen University, China
03Research Interests
Cultural Sociology · Sociology of Crime · Narrative Sociology · Correctional Social Work
04Research Projects
Boundaries and Transgression: Drug Control and Drug Involvement from a Cultural-Sociological Perspective
National Social Science Fund Project for the Publication of Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations.
Human Rights Protection in China’s Drug Governance and Its International Communication
Chongqing Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project.
A Sociological Study of Reconstructing Everyday Order among People with Criminal Records in the Context of Misdemeanour Reform
Chongqing Social Science Planning Project.
Narratives of People Convicted of Drug Offences from a Cultural-Criminological Perspective
Xiamen University Graduate Fieldwork Fund.
05Publications
Li, D. From phenomenology to structural hermeneutics: Rethinking and integrating paradigms of meaning inquiry—with reflections on qualitative crime research. Journal of the People’s Public Security University of China (Social Sciences Edition), 5.
Li, D. The development and multiple possibilities of narrative analysis in the sociology of crime. Criminal Research, 3.
Li, D. The rise and implications of cultural criminology: An examination of developments in Western criminological theory. Journal of the People’s Public Security University of China (Social Sciences Edition), 4.
Li, D. The limits of practising freedom: Constructing subjectivity in offender rehabilitation. Journal of Shandong Police College, 3.
06Honours & Academic Service
Expert Scholar
Beijing Centre for Maritime and Land Economic Development and Security Strategy
- Yu Tianxiu Sociology Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Nomination
- Second Prize, Chongqing Normal University Young Teachers’ Teaching Competition
- Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Fujian Province
- Outstanding Graduate, Xiamen University