Desiree Baolian Qin

Biography

Dr. Qin received interdisciplinary training in education, psychological anthropology and cultural psychology. Her research, funded by the William T Grant Foundation and the Spencer Foundation, focuses on highlighting nuanced, complex family processes that have been overlooked in quantitative work on Asian immigrant families, especially struggle in parent-child relations, e.g., emotional alienation, ... parent-child conflicts, communication challenges and negative impact of tiger parenting. She uses mostly mixed-method methods in her work and many of her published papers draw on qualitative methods. Dr. Qin has co-edited multiple volumes on the post-1965 New Immigration, globalization and education, Asian American and Pacific Islander children and mental health, and most recently children and prejudice. Her recent projects examine academic and psychosocial adaptation challenges of Chinese international students. Currently, she is interested in decolonizing research methodology, mindfulness, and diverse models of knowing, healing and well-being in lifespan human development.

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