Ken-Hou Lin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a faculty associate of the Population Research Center and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Business, Government and Society at the McCombs School of Business.
His research examines how large-scale economic transformation — the expansion of finance, the reorganization of work, and the spread of digital platforms — reshapes the distribution of resources and opportunity. He is the coauthor of *Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance* (Oxford University Press, 2020) and *The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance* (University of California Press, 2021). His articles appear in the *American Journal of Sociology*, *American Sociological Review*, *Social Forces*, *Demography*, *Organization Science*, and the *Annual Review of Sociology*.
He is Editor-in-Charge of *Socio-Economic Review*, the journal of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, and has served as deputy editor of *Demography* and on the editorial boards of the *American Sociological Review*, the *American Journal of Sociology*, and *Social Forces*. His research has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Joyce Foundation, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and the City of Austin.
He is a recipient of the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award and the Outstanding Article Award, both from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility. He has received the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award and the Iverson Award for Innovation in Teaching.
