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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Sociology

Jina Lee

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Contact Information

3106 Lincoln Hall
702 S Wright St
Urbana, IL 61801
Assistant Professor

Biography

Jina Lee is a sociologist whose research examines how gender shapes the evaluation and recognition of scientific knowledge. Using computational text analysis, bibliometric analysis, and survey experiments, she investigates how evaluation practices with seemingly neutral criteria often end up reproducing inequality in academia. Her ongoing work examines how gender influences which ideas are recognized as novel and whose contributions are deemed more credible under crisis. While her primary focus is on gender biases in scientific evaluation, she has extended her research to cultural and entrepreneurial domains, demonstrating the pervasive influence of status-based biases across multiple contexts. Her research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Socius, and Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.

Research Interests

Sociology of Science and Technology, Gender and Inequality, Sociology of Culture, Computational Social Science

Education

2024 Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Arizona
2016 M.A. in Sociology at Yonsei University
2013 B.A. in Sociology and Political Science at Yonsei University

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Sociology

Recent Publications

Leahey, E., Lee, J., & Funk, R. J. (2023). What Types of Novelty Are Most Disruptive? American Sociological Review, 88(3), 562-597. 
Lee, J., Seo, M., & Leahey, E. (2022). Who Deserves Protection? How Naming Potential Beneficiaries Influences COVID-19 Vaccine IntentionsSocius, 8, 23780231221082422.
Zhao, Y., Lee, J., & Ellenwood, C. (2021). The Persistent Influence of Gender Stereotypes in Social Entrepreneurial FinancingJournal of Social Entrepreneurship, 1-22.

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Sociology

3120 Lincoln Hall

702 S. Wright St.

Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 333-1950

Email: sociology@illinois.edu

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