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. She holds a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Economics from National Taipei University and an M.A. from National Taiwan University. Before her doctoral studies, she was a research assistant at Academia Sinica for the Taiwan Youth Project. In 2023–2024, she was awarded a prestigious overseas study scholarship from Taiwan’s Ministry of Education.
Her research explores how social structures and cultural norms shape intimate life events (such as marriage and childbearing) through a life course lens. Focusing on East Asia and the U.S., with collaborations in Europe, she uses advanced quantitative approaches, including sequence analysis, to study transnational marriage, attitudes toward intergroup relations, and precarious work. She also uses computational methods in interdisciplinary projects on segregation and disaster response. Her work appears in Population Research and Policy Review and Social Indicators Research.
Research Interests
Marriage and family, fertility, demography, inequality and stratification, life course perspective, quantitative methods
Education
M.A. in Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
B.A. in Sociology (minor in Economics), National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan
Grants
2025 Conference Participation Grant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2025 Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (CEAPS) Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2023–2024 Scholarship for Studying Abroad, Ministry of Education, Taiwan
2023 Graduate Student Employees Union Professional Development Program Grants, SUNY Stony Brook
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 Teaching Assistants Ranked as Excellent, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Courses Taught
2024 Guest Lecturer, SOC225: Race and Ethnicity, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2023 Instructor, SOC201: Statistical Methods in Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook
2022 Guest Lecturer, SOC273: Sociological Perspectives of the Family, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2022 Guest Lecturer, SOC274: Health, Illness, and Society, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Recent Publications
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. doi: 10.1007/s11113-025-09953-3.
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. doi: 10.1007/s11205-024-03495-5.
Tim F. Liao and Ting-Syuan Lin. Forthcoming in 2025. "Using Sequence Analysis in Social Science Research." Chapter in Handbook on Data Modelling and Data Analysis, edited by David Weakliem. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Professional Service
- 2025–Present Editorial Associate, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
- 2023–Present Listserv Manager, Asia & Asian America Section, American Sociological Association