IBS Associations
Program on International Development
Research Interests
Civic Activities, Democratic Engagement, Deliberation, Public Sphere, Political Discourse, Intersectionality, Ethnic and Gender Politics, Political Communication
Brief Biography
Xiaodong (Sergey) Yan (He/Him/His) is a doctoral student in Research Track – Community and Social Interaction, Department of Communication, University of Colorado Boulder. He is a Research Assistant at Center for Communication and Democratic Engagement, and a Graduate Fellow at Barney Ford Lab for Civic Thought and Engagement. Before moving to the U.S., He obtained a B.A. (2021) in The Art of Announcing and Anchoring from Liaoning University, China, and an M.A. (2024) in Communication from Wuhan University, China. His recent publications appear in Digital Journalism, Asian Journal of Communication, and China: An International Journal.
He is receiving training in mixed research methodologies (Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, Online Experiment, Survey, etc.) and pursuing Graduate Certificates in Women and Gender Studies and Quantitative Methods for Behavioral Sciences. His research interests center on Civic Activities and Democratic Engagement. Specifically, His works explore how Communication Praxis can facilitate Democratic Deliberation, improve Political Discourse Quality, and promote Communicative Democracy and Political Egalitarianism. In addition, He also focuses on the intersectional dynamics of Gender (Sexuality) and Ethnic Politics in the field of Communication Studies, addressing issues such as sexism, racism, eroticism, reproductive stigma, etc. He primarily employs Critical Approaches to examine how Stigmatized, Marginalized, and Dirtied People negotiate and reclaim their autonomous identities in society.
