I now fully recognize that I am an intellectual "fox" rather than a "hedgehog" (reference here), and has grown to be comfortable with this tendency.
Here are a few topics that I work on:
1) Since 2022, I have delved into the scholarly and policy discussion of "Just Transition" in Taiwan. With a grant supported by Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), I aim to contibute to policy development with rigorous social science research.
2) I examine market-based environmental policies by bringing together economic and environmental sociology. This line of work draws heavily from my multi-sited fieldwork in the carbon market during 2012 and 2013. I especially take materiality and cultural framings seriously as they do not receive enough scholarly attention. Lately, I translated the Carbon Offset Guide into Chinese, and actively involve in the policy discussions of Taiwan's carbon pricing scheme.
3) I am broadly interested in how people come to understand environmental issues and form their environmental perceptions. I like to think about how people interact with nature. From this starting point, I have analyzed environmental survey data, conducted content analysis of climate skeptics' publications, and examined college textbooks' coverage on climate change.
4) I have interests in gender and racial/ethnic inequality. I tried to explore this realm, mainly through collaborations, using audit experiments in unique settings.
5) I tried to use my sociological eyes to examine the things I like. With that, I am writing a paper about boba/bubble tea and Asian American idnetity, and another paper on how profession Go players respond to artificial intelligence.
Here are a few topics that I work on:
1) Since 2022, I have delved into the scholarly and policy discussion of "Just Transition" in Taiwan. With a grant supported by Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), I aim to contibute to policy development with rigorous social science research.
2) I examine market-based environmental policies by bringing together economic and environmental sociology. This line of work draws heavily from my multi-sited fieldwork in the carbon market during 2012 and 2013. I especially take materiality and cultural framings seriously as they do not receive enough scholarly attention. Lately, I translated the Carbon Offset Guide into Chinese, and actively involve in the policy discussions of Taiwan's carbon pricing scheme.
3) I am broadly interested in how people come to understand environmental issues and form their environmental perceptions. I like to think about how people interact with nature. From this starting point, I have analyzed environmental survey data, conducted content analysis of climate skeptics' publications, and examined college textbooks' coverage on climate change.
4) I have interests in gender and racial/ethnic inequality. I tried to explore this realm, mainly through collaborations, using audit experiments in unique settings.
5) I tried to use my sociological eyes to examine the things I like. With that, I am writing a paper about boba/bubble tea and Asian American idnetity, and another paper on how profession Go players respond to artificial intelligence.