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 University 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, University of California, Merced (2022)
Courses Recently Taught at LSU
(Syllabi are for illustrative purposes and subject to change)
- SOCL 4461: Criminology