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 "nonwhite" interracial 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 the 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. "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)
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)