Dissertation
My dissertation project, which received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 ESS Coser Dissertation Proposal Award, analyzes the experiences and perspectives of East Asian men and women in different-sex interracial/-ethnic relationships. If you (1) identify as an East Asian man or woman, (2) are currently based in the United States, and (3) are in a romantic relationship with someone from a different racial or ethnic background, please consider signing up for my study here (IRB protocol: 852920).
Earlier Projects
In an earlier project, I analyzed 47 interviews with East Asian women in interracial/-ethnic romantic relationships to examine (1) how they came to develop their romantic preferences and (2) how they navigate racial differences in their relationships. Across the two papers I produced from this project, I have received the following awards and honorable mentions:
2023 SSSP Division of Critical Race and Ethnic Study Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award (Winner)
2023 ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities James E. Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award (Honorable Mention)
2024 ASA Race, Gender, and Class Graduate Student Paper Award (Honorable Mention)
Other Projects
Beyond my primary research agenda, I have collaborated with colleagues to examine how individuals conceptualize the nature of race. In a first-authored publication in Ethnic and Racial Studies, I analyzed 108 interviews of genetic ancestry test-takers to develop a novel typology that situates racial conceptualization along a continuum from social constructivism to genetic essentialism.
Moreover, with Alexander Adames, I designed a conjoint survey experiment to disentangle the causal effects of gender, race, educational attainment, and educational prestige on romantic and sexual desirability in online dating contexts.