Doctoral Student

I study people's political ideas and practices in different contexts, focusing on the intersection of race and ethnicity, migration studies, Asian American studies, political sociology, collective behaviors and social movements, and global and transnational sociology. My dissertation project explores Chinese immigrants in the U.S. who mobilize themselves both as members of the diaspora advocating for democratization in China and as immigrants using progressive approaches to combat sociopolitical inequality in the U.S. I explore how these two forms of mobilization inform each other, the tensions that emerge, and what these dynamics reveal about the intersection of racialization, gender and sexual oppression, geopolitical transmissions, transnational repression, and Western-centered regimes of knowledge production regarding non-Western countries. My other ongoing research projects include a study of Formosan Black Bear nationalism in Taiwan and a study of Transnational K-pop fans’ political talk in the field of popular culture consumption.