Tim Liao
Professor and Head
Office: 333 Lincoln Hall
Phone: (217) 333-1950
Email: tfliao@uiuc.edu
Field of Study: Comparative Family Studies, Demography, Methodology
PhD: University of North Carolina
Tim Liao is Professor of Sociology & Statistics. His research interests include historical/comparative sociology, demography, and methodology. He is a former Deputy Editor of The Sociological Quarterly, (1992-2000) and the current Editor of Sage’s Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series. He served on the council of the ASA Methodology Section (1998-2001) and on the council of the North America Chinese Sociological Association (2000-2002). He has been on the editorial board of Sociological Methods & Research since 1994 and on the editorial board of Sociological Methodology since 2003. He is the Chair-Elect of the Methodology Section of the American Sociology Association from August 2007 to August 2009.
His recent journal publications include:
Liao, T.F. 2006. Measuring and Analyzing Class Inequality with the Gini Index Informed by Model-Based Clustering.
Sociological Methodology 36: 201-224.
Liao, T.F. 2005. Discussion on ‘Local Model Uncertainty and Incomplete Data Bias’ by John Copas and Shinto Eguchi.
Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series B 67(4): 497-498.
He is co-editor of the 2004 Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, a three-volume set with definitive entries written by authorities on a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods in the social sciences.
His current research focuses on the conceptualization and measurement of inequality and stratification. He has edited (with Elżbieta Hałas) a special issue of the Polish Sociological Review (issue 2 of volume 158, 2007) on Florian Znaniecki’s sociology.