Jina Lee

Jina Lee is a sociologist of evaluation, knowledge, and inequality. Her work asks: how do systems of evaluation determine whose contributions are recognized as novel, authoritative, and credible? And how does inequality concentrate in the judgments least governed by clear standards? She traces evaluation from the classification of novel contributions, through their reception and stabilization, to the organizational and AI infrastructures that structure scholarly judgment. She studies these processes across science, cultural fields, and increasingly AI-mediated knowledge systems, using computational text analysis, bibliometric analysis, and experiments. Her research appears in the American Sociological Review, Gender & Society, and Poetics, among other venues.