Yuqing Huang is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of Chicago. Her research explores the intersections of gender, reproduction, and economic sociology, with a particular focus on the formation of the global reproductive market. She examines how Chinese intended parents—especially single individuals and same-sex couples—navigate reproduction and family-building through assisted reproductive technologies including egg freezing, IVF, and surrogacy. Her work has been recognized with the Eita Krom Award from the University of Michigan’s Department of Sociology and the Johnson Thesis Prize from the Division of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.

Before coming to Chicago, Yuqing worked at Future Family (formerly Advocates for Diverse Family Network) in China, where she contributed to landmark legal advocacy efforts. These included cases supporting single mothers’ access to birth insurance in multiple cities and the first lawsuit in China seeking to secure single women’s right to freeze their eggs.