Nancy Riley is Professor of Sociology Emerita and A. Myrick Freeman Chair of Social Sciences Emerita at Bowdoin College (Maine). She received her MA (Sociology) and MPH (Public Health) from the University of Hawai‘i and her Ph.D. (demography) from Johns Hopkins University. Her research has focused on family, gender, and population in China and uses both quantitative and qualitative data. Publications include Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone: Laboring in Paradise (Springer 2012), based on fieldwork with married migrant workers in Northeast China; Population in China (Polity 2016), a critical overview of China’s policies; and Controlling Reproduction: Women, Society, and State Power (with Nilanjana Chatterjee; Polity 2023). Her most recent book, Chinatown, Honolulu: Place, Race, and Empire (Columbia University Press, 2024) uses quantitative, ethnographic, interview, and archival data to examine the experience of Chinese in Hawai‘i.