Jyun-Jie (JJ) Yang

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

Jyun-Jie (JJ) is a PhD candidate in sociology at UC Davis. He is interested in applying cultural theory to examine how people create solidarity (or the lack thereof), with a particular emphasis on meaning-making processes at the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and class across social movements and interpersonal relationships. His dissertation focuses on the rise of populism shaped by three interconnected crises—masculinity, class, and war—in Taiwan, exploring how these dynamics contribute to a political culture that erodes democracy. His previous work also examined how Taiwan’s same-sex marriage equality movement achieved its goal within a relatively short period. His article, "Bounded Desirability," which investigates how racial inequality is reproduced among queer men of color, has received award recognition from both SSSP and ASA. Dedicated to public sociology, he has written about the #BlackLivesMatter movement’s nonviolent artistic protests in New York City and a variety of feminist and queer topics in Mandarin Chinese.

Research Focus

Gender & Sexuality, Cultural Sociology, Race & Ethnicity, Social Movements, Feminist & Queer Theory, 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. “Urban Guerrilla Tactics: Black Lives Matter and the Art of Nonviolent Protest 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).

Awards

“Bounded Desirability: How Anti-Blackness Shapes Interracial Intimacy Among and Between Queer Men of Color” (R&R)

• 2026 SSSP Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division Graduate Student Paper Award (Winner)
• 2026 ASA Race, Gender, and Class Graduate Student Paper Award (Honorable Mention)

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)

SOC 133 Sexual Stratification & Politics (Winter 2026)

Reader

SOC 001 Introduction to Sociology (Summer I 2024)

SOC 131 The Family (Summer II 2025; Summer I 2026)