Sociology Faculty Directory
Xiaorui Huang
Assistant Professor
Xiaorui Huang
Ph.D.
Contact
McGuinn Hall 412
Email: xiaorui.huang@bc.edu
Education
- B.S., University of Oregon
- M.A., Boston College
- Ph.D., Boston College
Research Interests
Environmental Sociology, Climate Change, Global and Transnational Sociology, Political Economy, Sociology of Development, Social Inequality, Quantitative and Computational Methods, Sustainability Science
Department
Biography
Xiaorui Huang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Boston College. His research focuses on environmental sociology, climate change, global political economy, and advanced quantitative methods. His main published work examines the impacts of social driving forces, such as economic development, international trade, and income inequality, on climate change and global climate justice. His work appears in venues including American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Science Research, Sociological Methodology, and Energy Research & Social Science.
Selected Publications
Huang, Xiaorui. 2024. “Harness the Co-Benefit and Avoid the Trade-off: The Complex Relationship between Income Inequality and Carbon Dioxide Emissions.” Social Forces 103(2): 403-428.
Huang, Xiaorui. 2024. “Not All Emissions Are Created Equal: Multidimensionality in Nations’ Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Affluence/Emissions Nexus.” Socius 10. doi.org/10.1177/23780231241238962.
Huang, Xiaorui. 2024. “The Multidimensional Relationship Between Renewable Energy Deployment and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in High-Income Nations.” npj Climate Action 3:107.
Jorgenson, Andrew K., Brett Clark, Ryan P. Thombs, Jeffrey Kentor, Jennifer E. Givens, Xiaorui Huang, Hassan El Tinay, Daniel Auerbach, and Matthew C. Mahutga. 2023. “Guns Versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Impact of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions.” American Sociological Review 88(3): 418-453.
Thombs, Ryan, Xiaorui Huang, and Jared Fitzgerald. 2022. “What Goes Up Might Not Come Down: Modeling Directional Asymmetry with Large N, Large T Data.” Sociological Methodology 52(1):1-29.
Gareau, Brian, J., Xiaorui Huang, Tara Pisani Gareau, and Sandra DiDonato. 2022. “Silent Spring at 60: Assessing Environmentalism in the Cranberry Treadmill of Production.” Journal of Rural Studies 85: 505-520.
Thombs, Ryan P., Xiaorui Huang, Andrew K. Jorgenson. 2021. “It’s About Time: How Recent Advances in Time Series Analysis Techniques Can Enhance Energy and Climate Research.” Energy Research & Social Science 72:101882.
Huang, Xiaorui. 2018. “Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Recessions, and Climate Change: A Longitudinal Study.” Social Science Research 73:1-12.
Huang, Xiaorui, and Andrew K. Jorgenson. 2018. “The Asymmetrical Effects of Economic Development on Consumption-Based and Production-Based Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 1990-2014.” Socius 4:1-10.