Contact Information
3059 Lincoln Hall
Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
Ting-Syuan Lin is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Previously a research assistant for the Taiwan Youth Project, she was awarded the Government Scholarship to Study Abroad from Taiwan’s Ministry of Education. In 2025, she participated in the Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
She is a quantitative sociologist whose research examines gender, family, segregation, and population change through spatial and life-course perspectives. Her dissertation, Politics, Security, and Demographic Change: How Political Instability and Ideology Shape Family Formation, investigates how political insecurity, institutional contexts, and political identity shape family attitudes, fertility, and family-formation trajectories across Taiwan, the United States, and cross-national settings. More broadly, she is interested in how changing norms, institutions, and social environments shape patterns of social differentiation across time and space.
She draws on quantitative, computational, and sequence analysis methods in her research. Her work has appeared in Population, Space and Place, Population Research and Policy Review, Social Indicators Research, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, and Research on Aging.
Research Interests
Marriage and Family; Demography/Population Studies; Life-Course Perspective; Spatial Inequality; Quantitative Methods (with a focus on Sequence Analysis); Political Sociology; Public Policy
Education
M.A. in Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
B.A. in Sociology (minor in Economics), National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan
Grants
2026 Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grants (TOP Grants), Doctoral Candidate, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
2026 Conference Presentation/Participation Grant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2025 Conference Presentation/Participation Grant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2025 Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (CEAPS), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2024–2025 Government Scholarship to Study Abroad (GSSA), Ministry of Education, Taiwan
2023 Professional Development Program Grant, Graduate Student Employees Union, Stony Brook University
2023 Student Registration Grant, RC55 Social Indicators, International Sociological Association
2022 Conference Participation Grant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Honors
2020 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Courses Taught
SOC 202: Statistical Methods in Sociology — Instructor of Record
SOC 225: Race and Ethnicity — Guest Lecturer
SOC 273: Sociological Perspectives of the Family — Guest Lecturer
SOC 274: Health, Illness, and Society — Guest Lecturer
Workshops & Tutorials
Sequence Analysis for Demographers — PAA Pre-Conference Workshop
Introduction to Sequence Analysis in R — MPIDR Summer Incubator Tutorial
Recent Publications
*Corresponding authors
Gender, Family, and Population Change
Lin, Ting-Syuan*. 2025. “Regional Difference in Changing Son Preference Attitudes in Taiwan: An Age–Period–Cohort-Interaction Analysis, 2001–2021.” Population Research and Policy Review 44(3):28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-025-09953-
Place and Spatial Inequality
Lin, Ting-Syuan*, and Yongjun Zhang. 2026. “Multidimensional Segregation Among Asian American Voters: Racial, Income, and Partisan Sorting in New York and California.” Population, Space and Place 32(4):e70271. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70271
Ma, Zihui, Guangxiao Hu*, Ting-Syuan Lin, Lingyao Li, Songhua Hu, Loni Hagen, and Gregory B. Baecher. 2025. “Analyzing Public Response to Wildfires: A Socio-Spatial Study Using SIR Models and NLP Techniques.” Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 121:102333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2025.102333
Life-Course Transitions and Trajectories
Lin, Ting-Syuan*, Wen-Hua Lai, and Seung-won Emily Choi. 2026. “The Weight of Care: Examining the Relationship Between Grandchild Caregiving and Adiposity in Later Life.” Research on Aging 01640275261478949. doi:10.1177/01640275261478949.
Liao, Tim F.*, and Ting-Syuan Lin. Forthcoming 2026. “Using Sequence Analysis in Social Science Research.” In Handbook on Data Modelling and Data Analysis, edited by David Weakliem. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Tsai, Ming-Chang, and Ting-Syuan Lin*. 2025. “Precarious Work During the Transition to Adulthood: A Latent Profile Analysis of Taiwan’s Young People.” Social Indicators Research 176(3):993–1020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-024-03495-5
Professional Service
- 2025–Present Editorial Associate, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
- 2023–Present Listserv Manager, Asia & Asian America Section, American Sociological Association