Biography
I joined LSU Sociology in the fall of 2023, after teaching at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD and completing a PhD in Sociology at the ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of California, Merced in 2022.
My research interests include race, crime, and gentrification. First, using a geospatial lens, I am investigating neighborhood environmental, racial, class changes and their impacts on vulnerable populations and communities. More specifically, I am working in measuring neighborhood changes quantitatively and qualitatively and assessing their societal impacts on crimes and racialized policing practices (arrests and stop-and-frisks against minority populations and communities of color). For this agenda, I am currently engaging in exploring various types of gentrifications in urban contexts and how they influence variations in criminal justice outcomes.
Other than criminal justice, I am broadly interested in assessing systemic racial inequalities in various societal institutions, including health, education, and labor markets. For health, I examine how individual-level discriminatory experiences shape health outcomes of racial minorities and how neighborhood-level racial and socioeconomic disadvantages yield health disparities focusing on the COVID-19. For education and labor markets, I explore how racial identity and racialization become a systemic barrier of achieving educational and occupational successes for Asian populations, in reaction to the model minority myth.
My work has been published in various peer-reviewed sociological and other social science journals, including Sociological Perspectives, Crime & Delinquency, Critical Criminology,Policing &Society, Socius, Sociological Research Online, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Research in the Sociology of Heath Care, and other outlets.
Education
PhD, ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of California, Merced (2022)
Curriculum Vitae
Courses Recently Taught at LSU
(Syllabi are for illustrative purposes and subject to change)
- SOCL 4461: Criminology