About
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology with a certificate in Science, Technology & Society Program. I am the 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow. My research interests intersect gender, work/labor, science and technology studies, and political economy.
My dissertation focuses on feminized digital labor within China’s platform economy, examining it through the broad lens of women's labor history. This study investigates how digitalization reconfigures the relationship between humans and machines while perpetuating older power structures. It critically assesses both the continuities and changes in patterns of capital accumulation and state control. My previous project examined the collapse of work-family division in the post-industrial US, looking at how racial minorities navigate work-family relations in the informal sector and its implications for work-family reforms that resonate with an increasingly informal economy.
My research has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG), the International Institute, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, and the Rackham Graduate School. I'm the recipient of the 2023 SWS Cheryl Allyn Miller Award from Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), the 2022 ASA Economic Sociology Section Best Student Paper in Economic Sociology and Entrepreneurship Award, the 2022 ASA Family Section Linda Burton Award, the 2022 McGuigan Prize for Best Graduate Essay in Women’s and Gender Studies at University of Michigan, and the 2020 Raymond Fogelson Award for Best Master Thesis in the Ethnological and Historical Sciences at University of Chicago.
