Jina Lee

Jina Lee serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, housed within the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Her research program critically examines how gender shapes the evaluation and recognition of scientific knowledge through innovative methodological approaches.

Dr. Lee's primary research interests include:

• Sociology of Science and Technology
• Gender and Inequality
• Sociology of Culture
• Computational Social Science

Her educational background features a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Arizona (2024), an M.A. in Sociology from Yonsei University (2016), and a dual B.A. in Sociology and Political Science from Yonsei University (2013).

Dr. Lee's scholarly work reveals consistent patterns of gender bias in evaluation processes across diverse contexts. She demonstrates how seemingly neutral criteria in academic evaluation can reproduce systemic inequalities, particularly examining how gender influences which ideas gain recognition as novel and whose contributions are deemed credible - especially during crisis conditions. Her methodological toolkit combines computational text analysis, bibliometrics, and survey experiments to uncover subtle but pervasive biases that traditional sociological approaches might miss.

Her research has been published in top-tier journals including the American Sociological Review, Poetics, Socius, and the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, establishing her as a significant voice in understanding the gendered dimensions of knowledge production and validation.