Position Title
Graduate Student
Education
- M.A., Sociology, University of California, Davis, 2024
- M.A., Women's and Gender Studies, City University of New York, Graduate Center, 2021
- B.A., Sociology, National Taiwan University, 2018 (Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies)
- B.S., Psychology, National Taiwan University, 2018 (Double major)
About
I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at UC Davis. My qualifying paper investigates how gay men of color navigate and negotiate their racial and cultural differences in a "nonwhite" inter-racial and inter-ethnic relationships. One of my prior and ongoing research focuses on the legalization of the same-sex marriage movement in Taiwan, and how activists employed a variety of strategies to achieve the goal in a condensed manner. I am developing this topic with Dr. Kao (Virginia Commonwealth University) to examine "human rights" discourse intertwined with the complexity of Taiwanese identifications in geopolitics. I am also collaborating with Dr. Clerge (UC Davis) to explore how sociologists develop students' racial sociological imagination through the concept of “racial wealth gap” in a transnational classroom.
Research Focus
Sexualities, Race and Ethnicity, Sex and Gender, Feminist and Queer Theory, Culture, Social Movements, Global and Transnational Sociology, East Asian and Taiwan Studies
Publications
Yang, Jyun-Jie. forthcoming. "The Compressed Modernity of Legalizing Same-sex Marriage in Taiwan: Weaving Digital Activism "from below" Into Human Rights Discourse and The Complexity of Sexual, Political, and National Identifications." In Queering Taiwan Studies, edited by H. Chiang. Singapore: Springer.
Public Sociology
Yang, Jyun-Jie. 2022. “Documenting The Movement: Urban Guerrilla Tactics and Non-violent Art Protests of Black Lives Matter in New York City.” (運動紀實:BLM的都市叢林游擊戰──紐約非暴力的藝術抗爭). Taiwan Streetcorner Sociology. (link).
Teaching
Teaching Assistant
SOC 002 Self & Society (Fall 2022 & Winter 2023)
SOC 003 Social Problems (Spring 2023)
SOC 004 Immigration & Opportunity (Spring 2024)
SOC 005 Global Social Change (Winter 2024)
SOC 007 Race & Ethnicity (Fall 2023)
SOC 126 Social Interactions (Fall 2024)
Reader
SOC 001 Introduction to Sociology (Summer 2024)