Desiree Baolian Qin

Biography

Accepting applications for graduate students. 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