I am a Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. I hold a PhD in Sociology from McGill University, with a Graduate Option in Gender and Women’s Studies. Before starting my journey in Montreal, I received an MSc in Sociology from the University of Oxford, and a BA in the Interdisciplinary Program of Humanities and Social Sciences from National Tsing Hua University.

My research is organized around two areas of inquiry: culture and meaning-making related to marriage and family; and social mobility within and across generational lines. In each of these areas, I pay particular attention to how sex, gender and sexuality intersect with other axes of social inequality. To this end, I conduct both quantitative and qualitative research based on various types of data, including censuses, administrative tax records, surveys, and in-depth interviews.

Thus far, my work has appeared in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Demographic Research and the Journal of Population Research and has been generously funded by the Department of Women and Gender Equality (Canada), the Canadian Research Data Centre Network, the Government of Taiwan, among other funding agencies.