I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Emory University (expected graduation 2026). My research investigates how Asian diasporic communities construct, contest, and mobilize collective identities across transnational contexts.
My dissertation, Parenting Merit, Negotiating Race: Asian American Families, Policy, and Racial Ideology in the U.S. South, draws on in-depth interviews to examine how immigrant parents interpret race-conscious education policy through global moral frameworks of merit and fairness.
My broader research agenda integrates qualitative and computational methods to advance comparative, cross-border perspectives on racialization, belonging, and moral reasoning. My work has been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies.