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 fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at UC Davis. My qualifying paper examines how anti-Blackness constructs racial boundaries that shape dating preferences and mate selection among and between queer men of color. My dissertation project aims to explore how individuals’ racial schemas transform beyond US borders and how these transformation shapes the everyday lives of migrants of color. My previous work explores how queer activists employed various strategies to achieve the legalization of same-sex marriage in Taiwan within a condensed time frame. I am currently extending this research with Dr. Kao (Virginia Commonwealth University) to investigate how human rights discourse is understood and deployed in Taiwan’s queer movements. Additionally, I am collaborating with Dr. Clerge (UC Davis) to examine how sociologists cultivate students’ racial sociological imagination through the concept of the racial wealth gap in a transnational classroom.
Research Focus
Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexualities, Cultural Sociology, Feminist and Queer Theory, Social Movements, Taiwan Studies
Publications
Yang, Jyun-Jie. forthcoming. "Queer Compressed Modernity: Digital Activism, Human Rights, and the Contested Sexual and National Identity in Taiwan’s Marriage Equality Movement (2016-2019)." In Queering Taiwan Studies, edited by Howard 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 001 Introduction to Sociology (Winter 2025)
SOC 002 Self & Society (Fall 2022; Winter 2023)
SOC 003 Social Problems (Spring 2023; Spring 2025)
SOC 004 Immigration & Opportunity (Spring 2024)
SOC 005 Global Social Change (Winter 2024)
SOC 007 Race & Ethnicity (Fall 2023; Fall 2025)
SOC 126 Social Interactions (Fall 2024)
Reader
SOC 001 Introduction to Sociology (Summer 2024)
SOC 131 The Family (Summer 2025)