Contact Information
702 S Wright St
Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
Jina Lee is a sociologist of evaluation, knowledge, and inequality. Her work asks: how do systems of evaluation determine whose contributions are recognized as original, authoritative, and credible? And how does inequality concentrate in the judgments least governed by clear standards? She pursues these questions across three arenas: the sciences; cultural canonization; and the AI systems now absorbing parts of scholarly judgment itself, using computational text analysis, bibliometric analysis, and experiments. Her research appears in the American Sociological Review, Gender & Society, and Poetics, among other venues.
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
- Lassiter, Charles, Sarah Bratt, Erin Leahey, Charlie Gomez, Jina Lee, and Yeaeun Kwon. (Forthcoming) Humble Reflections on the Intellectual Process of Developing a Text-based Measure of Humility in Inquiry. In Humble Inquiry: New Perspectives on Intellectual Humility, edited by Nathan Ballantyne, Jared Celniker, and Norbert Schwartz. Cambridge University Press
- Lee, Jina. (2026). Claiming Novelty, Claiming Authority: Gender Gaps in Scientific Impact Across Disciplines. Gender & Society, Online First.
- Lee, Jina. (2025). Gendered Pathways to Perpetual Fame: The Selection of Elite Novelists into the Korean Literary Canon. Poetics, 112.
- Leahey, Erin, Jina Lee, Russell. J. Funk. (2023). What Types of Novelty Are Most Disruptive? American Sociological Review, 88(3): 562-597.
- Lee, Jina, Minjae Seo, Erin Leahey. (2022). Who Deserves Protection? How Naming Potential Beneficiaries Influences COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions. Socius, 8.
- Zhao, Yi, Jina Lee, Cheryl Ellenwood. (2021). The Persistent Influence of Gender Stereotypes in Social Entrepreneurial Financing. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 15(3): 811-832.