PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

2022 “Hybrid Ethnography: Access, Positioning, and Data Assembly,” Ethnography, Online First, See [PDF]

2020 “Pathways to College Admissions: Student Strategies and Class Variations in Activating Cultural Knowledge in Taiwan.” International Studies in Sociology of Education, 31:3, 284-304. See [PDF]

BOOK IN MANDARIN

2015 “Let the Timber Creek: An Alternative School’s Utopia for Coming Generations. New Taipei City, Taiwan: Acropolis.” See English Table of Content.

• See Media Coverage from China Times, The Common Worth Parenting,

UNDER REVIEW

Caught in the Crossfire: Social Capital, Contested Network, and Students’ College Plans.

• Winner of the Graduate Student Paper Competition, Life Course Div, The Society for the Studies of Social Problems.
• Graduate Student Award, RC28 on Social Stratification and Mobility, International Sociology Association.

Out of the Old, In with the New: The Meaning of Merit in the Wake of Taiwan’s Holistic Admissions Reforms (Invited, The Journal of Asian Studies)

Guessing Your Way In: How Do Cultural Guides Leverage Guesswork to Help Students in Uncertain Admissions?

• Winner of the Best Student Paper Award from East Asia SIG, International Comparative Education Society
• Third-prize Graduate Student Paper Award, Midwest Sociological Society.

“‘My Degree is Better Than Yours!’ Digital Credentialism and Symbolic Closure in Massified Higher Education”

• Second-prize, student paper competition, Midwest Sociological Society
• Honorable mention, Education Problems Division, The Society for the Studies of Social Problems

IN PREPARATION

“Revisiting the Shape of Sieves: How Universities Gatekeep and Why Variation Matters”

BOOK MANUSCRIPT

“When Ladders Move: How Social Classes Navigate Uncertainty to Gain an Edge” (See temporal table of content).