Visiting Student, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego

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1 CV [Current January 2017] EDUCATION Ph.D., Sociology, University at Albany, SUNY (expected) Dissertation (in progress): Marriageable Us, Undesirable Them: Reproducing Social Inequalities through Marital Boundaries Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica Visiting Student, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego M.A., Sociology, National Taiwan University Thesis: Working in a Fantastic Cage: TV Shopping Hosts Media Labor and Image Capital B.A., Mass Communications with minor in Japanese, National Chengchi University Core areas: Radio and TV production, documentary genre RESEARCH INTERESTS Comparative-historical sociology, race/ethnicity, immigration, nationalism, Asia and Asian America, China and Chinese communities in the global south. PUBLICATIONS Referred Journal Articles 2014 Yuching Cheng. Bridging Immigration Research and Racial Formation Theory to Examine Contemporary Immigrant Identities. Sociology Compass 8(6): Ruxiu Chen, Inchun Lin, Zhihwa Huang, and Yuching Cheng. Chinese Image and Imagination in Taiwanese Cinema. Journal of National Taiwan College of Arts 69: (in Chinese). Book Chapters

2 2007 Yuching Cheng. On Conceptualization: The Case of Media Workers in Taiwan. In So I Do My Fieldwork: Personal Journals of a Quaternary Practice, Gwo-shyong Shieh, ed. Taipei: Socio Publishing Press (in Chinese). Encyclopedia Entries 2014 Yuching Cheng. American Born Chinese. Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia. Sage Publications. WORK IN PROGRESS Manuscripts in Submission Marital Boundaries and Highly Achieving Immigrants: How Upward Assimilation Can Lead to Intermarriage Resistance. (Preprints: OTHER PUBLICATIONS Book Translations (English to Chinese) 2008 An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives 2005 Photography: A Critical Introduction 2004 Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Play of Shadows (co-translator) Edited Books 1999 Female Gaze: 56 Ways of Reading Women in Films (co-editor; in Chinese). TEACHING Adjunct Instructor Saint Rose College, Albany, New York Social Statistics (Fall 2013) Sole Instructor State University of New York at Albany Contemporary Immigration (Spring 2013)

3 Introduction to Social Research (Spring and Fall 2012) Statistics for Sociologists (Fall 2011) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Research 2016 Social Networks and Multilevel Analysis Certificates of Completion. Workshop on Quantitative Methodology and Sociological Research, Institute of Sociology, Academic Sinica, Taipei. Teaching College Teaching Certificate Program, SUNY Albany. AWARDS AND GRANTS 2016 Doctoral Fellowship, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica Benevolent Research Grant, SUNY Albany Dissertation Research Fellowship Award, SUNY Albany Study Abroad Scholarship, Republic of China Ministry of Education Master s Thesis Fellowship, Archilife Research Foundation, Taiwan Distinguished Student Scholarship, Shintian Foundation, Taiwan Luk Hang Journalism Scholarship, National Chengchi University, Taiwan. SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES Reviewer Ethnic and Racial Studies Social Currents

4 Community Service 2016-present Director, Leighton Foundation, San Diego, CA. This foundation supports low-income elementary school students through the development of STEM learning environments. Invited Talks 2016 Transnational Community and State Formation: On Taiwan s 2016 Presidential Election. San Diego Taiwanese Cultural Association Taiwanese American Community in San Diego: Identity, Marriage, and Integration. Taiwanese American Community Center, San Diego. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Forthcoming. Who Are Marriageable Us? Homeland Politics and Chinese Immigrants Marital Boundaries in the U.S. The 3rd East Asian Conference for Young Sociologists, Tohoku University, Japan The Making of Marital Boundaries: How Chinese-Speaking Immigrant Parents Distinguish Marriageable Us from Undesirable Them. China Research Workshop, 21 st China Program and UC-Fudan Center on Contemporary China, UCSD Making Marital Boundaries: How Taiwanese Immigrant Parents Draw Symbolic Boundaries along the Racial, Ethnic, and National Lines. International Conference on Intermarriage and Mixedness, Paris (poster presentation) Making Marital Boundaries: A Case of Taiwanese Immigrant Families. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago The Making of Marital Boundaries. Graduate Student Migration Workshop, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UCSD.

5 2014 Immigration and Racial Formation: A Happy Marriage? American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco Degrees of Transnational Mobility: How Census Taking Shapes Immigrant Family Formation in the Global South. North American Taiwan Studies Association Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin Transnational Families in the Global South: Why Immigrant Family Types Vary in Cross-Strait Migration. Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore Born To Be Chinese? Identification of Mixed-Ethnic Children of Chinese Immigrants. North American Chinese Sociologist Association Annual Meeting, Denver Cultural Labor in Taiwan. Taiwan Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Taipei Working in a Fantastic Cage: Exploitation and Commodification of Media Workers in Taiwan. Westminster University Conference of Internationalizing Media Studies, London. CITIZENSHIP Taiwan/Republic of China (citizen), U.S.A (permanent resident). LANGUAGES English: fluent. Mandarin Chinese: native. Taiwanese/Holo dialect: native. Japanese: intermediate.