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YUCHING JULIA CHENG
Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, SUNY Albany
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 858-230-5339
Website: ycchengblog.wordpress.com
EDUCATION
2008-2017
State University of New York at Albany, Doctoral Program in Sociology.
Dissertation in progress: Marriageable Us, Undesirable Them:
Reproducing Social Inequalities through Marital Boundaries
Comprehensive exams to be taken in culture and immigration.
2016-present Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica.
2014-2016
Visiting Student, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University
of California at San Diego.
2000-2006
National Taiwan University, M.A. Sociology.
Thesis: Working in a Fantastic Cage: TV Shopping Hosts’ Media Labor
and Image Capital
1996-2000
National Chengchi University, Taipei, B.A., Mass Communications with
minor in Japanese.
Core areas: Radio and TV production, documentary project genre.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Comparative-historical sociology, immigration, race/ethnicity, nationalism, Asia and
Asian Americans, China and Chinese communities in the global south.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed articles:
2014
Yu-Ching Cheng. “Bridging Immigration Research and Racial Formation
Theory to Examine Contemporary Immigrant Identities.” Sociology
Compass 8(6): 745-754.
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2001
Ruxiu Chen, Yu-Ching Cheng, Inchun Lin and Zhihwa Huang. “Chinese
Image and Imagination in Taiwanese Cinema.” Journal of National
Taiwan College of Arts 69: 147-105 (in Chinese).
Book chapters and text entries:
2014
Yu-Ching Cheng, “American Born Chinese.” Asian American Society:
An Encyclopedia. Sage.
2007
Yu-Ching Cheng, “On Conceptualization: The Case of Media Workers in
Taiwan.” In, So I Do My Fieldwork: Personal Journals of a Quaternary
Practice. Gwo-shyong Shieh, Ed. Taipei: Socio Publishing Press (in
Chinese).
Translation books (English to Chinese):
2008
An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives
2005
Photography: A Critical Introduction
2004
Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Play of Shadows (co-translator)
Edited books:
1999
Female Gaze: 56 Ways of Reading Women in Films (co-editor; in
Chinese).
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Papers under review:
“Marital Boundaries and Highly Achieving Immigrants: How Upward Assimilation Can
Lead to Intermarriage Resistance.” Submitted to Ethnicities.
Current projects:
“Growing
Old American: Religiosity, Independent Living, and Aging Chinese
Immigrants’ Well-being.” (with Richard Madsen; ongoing data analysis)
“‘SCA 5 Dies or Chinese Die’: Educational In/equality and Chinese Immigrants’
Perceptions of Affirmative Action in California.” (completed data collection)
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TEACHING
Adjunct instructor:
Saint Rose College, Albany, New York.
Social Statistics (Fall 2013).
Independent teaching:
State University of New York at Albany.
Contemporary Immigration (Spring 2013).
Introduction to Social Research (Spring and Fall 2012).
Statistics for Sociologists (Fall 2011).
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Research:
2016
Social Networks and Multilevel Analysis Certificates of Completion,
Workshop on Quantitative Methodology and Sociological Research,
Institute of Sociology, Academic Sinica, Taipei.
Teaching:
2011-2013
College Teaching Certificate Program, SUNY Albany.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2016
Doctoral Fellowship, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taipei.
2015
Benevolent Research Grant, SUNY Albany.
2014
Dissertation Research Fellowship Award, SUNY Albany.
2007
Study Abroad Scholarship, Republic of China Ministry of Education.
2006
Master’s Thesis Fellowship, Archilife Research Foundation, Taiwan.
2006
Distinguished Student Scholarship, Shintian Foundation, Taiwan.
1999
Luk Hang Journalism Scholarship, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
Reviewer:
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Social Currents
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Community service:
2016
Director, Leighton Foundation, San Diego, CA.
Invited talks:
2016
“Transnational Community and State Formation: On Taiwan’s 2016
Presidential Election.” San Diego Taiwanese Cultural Association.
2015
“Taiwanese American Community in San Diego: Identity, Marriage, and
Integration.” Taiwanese American Community Center, San Diego.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2015
“The Making of Marital Boundaries: How Chinese-Speaking Immigrant
Parents Distinguish Marriageable Us from Undesirable Them.” China
Research Workshop, 21st China Program and UC-Fudan Center on
Contemporary China, UCSD.
2015
“Making Marital Boundaries: How Taiwanese Immigrant Parents Draw
Symbolic Boundaries along the Racial, Ethnic, and National Lines”
International Conference on Intermarriage and Mixedness, Paris (poster
presentation).
2015
“Making Marital Boundaries: A Case of Taiwanese Immigrant Families.”
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.
2015
“The Making of Marital Boundaries.” Graduate Student Migration
Workshop, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UCSD
2014
“Immigration and Racial Formation: A Happy Marriage?” American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
2014
“Degrees of Transnational Mobility: How Census Taking Shapes
Immigrant Family Formation in the Global South.” North American
Taiwan Studies Association Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin.
2014
“Transnational Families in the Global South: Why Immigrant Family
Types Vary in Cross-Strait Migration.” Eastern Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, Baltimore.
2012
“Born To Be Chinese? Identification of Mixed-Ethnic Children of Chinese
Immigrants.” North American Chinese Sociologist Association Annual
Meeting, Denver.
2007
“Cultural Labor in Taiwan.” Taiwan Sociological Association Annual
Meeting, Taipei.
2007
“Working in a Fantastic Cage: Exploitation and Commodification of
Media Workers in Taiwan.” Westminster University Conference of
Internationalizing Media Studies, London.
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CITIZENSHIP
Taiwan/Republic of China (citizen), U.S.A (permanent resident).
LANGUAGES
English: fluent.
Mandarin Chinese: native.
Taiwanese/Holo dialect: native.
Japanese: intermediate.
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