Nan Feng

Nan Feng is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. She received her doctorate from Cornell University, where her research focused on how social inequality shapes the structure of social networks and access to resources. Feng’s work combines large-scale population surveys, quantitative modeling, and computational methods to examine how patterns of social connection influence outcomes such as economic opportunity, wellbeing, and aging. Her research has appeared in journals including Sociological Science, European Journal of Ageing, and The Prison Journal. Through her work, Feng seeks to better understand how relational structures reproduce social inequality and how social connections shape opportunities across the life course.