Research

Signing Realities: Language, Learning, and Korean Deaf Culture in VRChat

Doctoral Dissertation Project, 2021-present

Awards & Fellowships

  • 2024 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF DDRIG): Joint Award from Cultural Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies (STS) programs
  • 2024 UCI Center for Critical Korean Studies Graduate Fellowship
  • 2023 UCI Center for Asian Studies Summer Fellowship
  • 2023 UCI Center for Critical Korean Studies Summer Fellowship
  • 2021 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) Honorable Mention

Hidden in Plain Sight: Chinese International Students, WeChat, and the Imaginaries of Moral Citizenship

Undergraduate Honors Project 2021

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Awards & Fellowships

  • Irvine Initiative in A.I., Law, and Society: Research Fellow (2021-2022)
  • 2021 Chancellor’s Award of Distinction: Awarded to 53 most outstanding undergraduates of the Class of 2021 (top 0.05%)
  • 2021 Bronislaw Malinowski Prize for Undergraduate Research: Recognized for outstanding original research in Anthropology
  • 2021 Most Outstanding Student in the Department of Anthropology
  • 2021 Award of Academic Excellence: Recognizing the most outstanding seniors in the Department of Anthropology

Conference & Symposium Presentations

  • 2022: "Exploring the Infopolitics of Algorithmic Knowledge Production, Community Formation, and Governance."
    American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. (Co-authored with Orlando Lara, Lucy Pei, Farah Qureshi)
  • 2021: "Even the Air is Spicy: Joseon-jok Migrant Workers at Sichuanese Restaurants in Seoul, South Korea."
    UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium.
  • 2021: "Crazy Rich Asians and the Economics of Online Strangership: WeChat and Chinese International Students at the University of California, Irvine."
    UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium.
  • 2021: "Student-Citizenship and Social Media: Negotiating Moral Citizenship for Chinese International Students at the University of California, Irvine."
    University of California Asian American Studies Research Colloquium.