Dr. Brandon Folse
Sociology
Assistant Professor
Academic Credits
PhD, Sociology, University of Oregon, 2025
MS, Sociology, University of Oregon, 2021
MA, Asian Studies (China), University of Oregon, 2017
BA, English and History, Nicholls State University, 2006
Classes taught
- Social Inequalities
- Sociology of Education
- Sociology of Family
- Work and Occupations
Research Interests
- Migration studies
- Sociology of family
- Education and inequality
- Sociology of place
- Imagined futures
- Qualitative research
- China studies
Research Experience
Brandon Folse is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wyoming. His research examines migration, family, and social inequality, with a particular focus on family formation, mobility, and the construction of place and imagined futures. He has conducted ethnographic and interview-based research on Chinese birth tourism and outward migration from climate-affected coastal Louisiana, drawing on fieldwork in both the United States and China.
Dr. Folse’s current projects investigate the health impacts of deportation and explore transnational fatherhood among American men raising mixed-race children in China.
