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Youngmin Yi serves as the Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Wellesley College. Previously, Dr. Yi held an Assistant Professor position in Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Dr. Yi's educational background includes:
- B.A. in Economics and French from Wellesley College
- M.A. from Cornell University
- Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University
As a sociologist and demographer, Dr. Yi's research focuses on the intersection of family sociology, race and ethnicity, law and society, crime and deviance, and inequality. Dr. Yi employs quantitative data and methods to study how criminal legal and child welfare systems impact family and racial inequality in the United States. Research questions range from fundamental inquiries about family member incarceration prevalence to complex analyses of criminal legal case patterns. Dr. Yi critically examines both social phenomena and the methodological frameworks used to study them.
Dr. Yi has been honored with the Knafel Assistant Professorship, a named position recognizing scholarly excellence.
At Wellesley, Dr. Yi teaches courses including Population and Society (SOC110) and Social Exclusion (SOC203/203H), designed to develop students' conceptual and analytic toolkits for understanding systems of social organization and inequality. Dr. Yi provides mentorship through undergraduate research opportunities and focuses on helping students interrogate policy systems that structure everyday life.
Dr. Yi's academic work bridges theoretical frameworks with practical applications, examining how social structures create and maintain exclusion in areas including immigration, family relationships, and poverty.
