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 (Taiwan).

My research is organized around three areas of inquiry: culture and meaning-making related to marriage and family; social mobility within and across generational lines; and work-family trajectories over the life course. In each of these areas, I pay particular attention to how sex, gender and sexuality intersect with other axes of social inequality. I draw on both quantitative and qualitative data in my work, 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 Vanier Institute of the Family, Department of Women and Gender Equality (Canada), the Canadian Research Data Centre Network, Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grants for Humanities and Social Sciences, among other funding agencies.

I spend a lot of time in the RDC, usually with a podcast in my ears. Outside of work, I enjoy watching movies, cafe hunting, and eating pasta.