Janna Z. Huang (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of California – Berkeley. Her work is at the intersection of economic sociology, science and technology studies, and organizational culture. She leverages computational analysis and qualitative methods to examine how regulatory institutions and market devices interact to produce organizational change. Specifically, her dissertation research investigates the emergence, adoption, and contestation of climate reporting practices within corporate climate governance, with particular interest in how reporting frameworks demarcate authority on what counts as "sustainable" that shape subsequent organizational action on sustainability. By illuminating how the institutional, political, and technical dimensions of knowledge production shape pathways for organizational action, this work contributes to scholarship on organizational change, the sociology of quantification, and the political economy of climate change. Her work has been published in Social Forces, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, and Technology in Society.

Other ongoing projects with collaborators include investigating the social and environmental impacts of data center infrastructure; the “platformization” of climate governance; comparative studies on organizational pathways for sustainability and responsible AI; and survey research on hiring in corporate sustainability.

Janna's work has been supported by the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative, the Hewlett Foundation, the American Sociological Association, and the Center for Advanced Internet Studies. She has been recognized with paper awards from the American Sociological Association. Prior to graduate school, she earned a B.S. in Computer Science with honors in Science, Technology, and Society, and an M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University, where she was also the winner of the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.

Publications
-Huang, Janna Z. 2026. “Risky Climate: The Endogenous Institutionalization of Climate Disclosure in Corporate Climate Governance.” Social Forces. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag009
- Fligstein, Neil and Janna Z. Huang. 2026. “Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Creation of Multistakeholder Governance Fields for Climate Change: The Case of the Corporate Climate Disclosure Field.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Organizations and Climate Change [Walker, E. and Vasi, I. (eds.)].
- Fligstein, Neil and Janna Z. Huang. 2025. “Finance in Sustainable Transition: A Comparative Review Across Institutional Investors, Asset Managers, Venture Capital, Insurance, and Municipal Bonds.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 16(4): e70012. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70012
- Huang, Janna Z. 2023. A Break in the Cloud: The Local Sociotechnical Affordances Underlying Global Internet Infrastructures. Technology in Society 74:102319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102319