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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. ycheng-1 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) ycheng-2 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 ycheng-3 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. ycheng-4 CITIZENSHIP Taiwan/Republic of China (citizen), U.S.A (permanent resident). LANGUAGES English: fluent. Mandarin Chinese: native. Taiwanese/Holo dialect: native. Japanese: intermediate. ycheng-5