Yao-Tai Li Curriculum Vitae Department of Sociology University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive #0533 La Jolla, CA 92093-0533 yal059@ucsd.edu (626) 231-9492 EDUCATION Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, San Diego 2016 (expected) Dissertation: Making and Unmaking of Pan-Chineseness : The Formation and Decline of Overseas Pan-Chinese Identity in Australia Committee: David FitzGerald (co-chair), Christena Turner (co-chair), Yen Espiritu, Jeffrey Haydu, Vanesa Ribas M.A., Sociology, University of California, San Diego 2013 M.A., Political Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 2008 B.A., Political Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 2006 AFFILIATION Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney Aug. 2015 Visiting Scholar, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney. Dec. 2014 May 2014 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Race and ethnicity, immigration, culture, labor/work, social inequality PUBLICATIONS Articles Li, Yao-Tai. 2015. Constituting Co-Ethnic Exploitation: The Economic and Cultural Meanings of Cash-In-Hand Jobs for Ethnic Chinese Migrants in Australia. Critical Sociology (online first, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920515606504) Li, Yao-Tai. 2015. Playing at the Ethnic Boundary: The Boundary Making/Unmaking among Ethnic Chinese Groups in Australia. Ethnic and Racial Studies (online first, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2015.1080383) Li, Yao-Tai. 2015. Regulating the Market Risks: The Coalitions between Occupational Unions and CSOs in Taiwan. Development and Society 44(2): 1
295-317. Li, Yao-Tai. 2015. Shaping A Stranger: City Culture and Its Effects on Taiwanese Sojourners in China. City, Culture, and Architecture 1(1): 51-62. Li, Yao-Tai. 2010. The Union Action under the Commercialized Image Labor: An Example of Documentary Media Worker Union. Bulletin of Labour Research 26: 1-48. Li, Yao-Tai. 2008. Tri-parite Relations (Labor-Management-PAP) in Singapore: A Perspective of Historical Institutionalism. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 4(2): 93-107. Li, Yao-Tai. 2008. The Guarantee of Employment Welfare and Labor of Household Workers: An Example of Pong Wan-Ru Foundation. Community Development Journal 122: 236-263. Li, Yao-Tai. 2008. The Logic of Labor Market under the Disappearance of Developmental State: Taiwan s Case. Bulletin of Labour Research 23: 1-55. Book Reviews Li, Yao-Tai. 2011. Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights, and Transnational Activism. Political Science Quarterly Book Review 29: 17-24. Li, Yao-Tai. 2010. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Political Science Quarterly Book Review 27: 19-24. Li, Yao-Tai. 2008. Swinging Between State, Market and Society: The Content and Variations of Trade Unions in Europe and USA. Political Science Quarterly Book Review 17: 1-12. Li, Yao-Tai. 2007. A Sociography of Ping-Lin, Taiwan: Wage, Governmentality and Total Social Categories. Political Science Quarterly Book Review 16: 36-40. Work in Progress Li, Yao-Tai and Katherine Whitworth. When the State Becomes Part of the Exploitation: Unexpected Policy Outcome on Temporary Migrants in Australia (under review at International Migration) Li, Yao-Tai. Reacting to the Passive Immigration Policy: The Global Ethnic Network and Grassroots Migrant Workers Campaign in Australia. (In preparation for submission to Mobilization: An International Journal) Li, Yao-Tai. Self-Strengthening Racial Microaggressions: The Working Experiences of Ethnic Chinese Migrants in Australia. (In preparation for submission to Sociological Inquiry) 2
AWARDS 2015 Young Scholar Award, China Times Cultural Foundation, New York 2014 Summer Research Grant Awards, Department of Sociology, UCSD 2013-2014 UC California Studies Consortium (UCCSC) Award, University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) 2013 The Dean of Social Science Research Travel Fund Award, UCSD 2008 National Competition for Academic Papers of Political Science Relevant Departments, 3rd price, 2008 FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 2015-2016 Dissertation Fellowship for ROC Students Abroad, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange 2015 Australian Government Endeavour Research Fellowship 2014 Next Generation Sociologists Grant, ISA World Congress of Sociology 2014 International Graduate Student Travel Grant, East-West Center, Honolulu 2013 Travel Grant, The University Service Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2012-2013 IICAS Graduate Travel Grant Award, UCSD 2011-2012 Fulbright Graduate Study Grants 2011-2014 Government Scholarship for Studying Abroad, Ministry of Education, R.O.C. (Industrial Relations) 2006-2008 Bai Ma Culture and Education Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding Students CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Invited 2015. How Does Temporary Migration Leads to (Co-Ethnic) Exploitation? Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney. Sydney, Australia. 2010. New Wine in Old Bottles? The Developmental Trajectories and Movement Models of Craft Union in Taiwan. Labor Studies Conference: Asking Questions Towards the Future. Taipei, Taiwan. Conference Presentations 2015. Co-Ethnic Exploitation and Cash-In-Hand Jobs in Australia. 2015 Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association: Neoliberalism and Contemporary Challenges for the Asia-Pacific. Cairns, Australia. 2014. Diffuse or Enclosed? The Ethnic Communities of Taiwanese Migrant Workers in China. XVIII World Congress of Sociology Facing an Unequal World: 3
Challenges for Global Sociology. Yokohama, Japan. 2014. Diffuse or Enclosed Ethnoscapes? The Spatial Forms of Ethnic Communities of Taiwanese Migrant Workers in China. The 13th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference on the Asia-Pacific Region. Honolulu, Hawai i. 2013. Being a Taiwanese Abroad: The Shaping of Ethnic Communities of Taiwanese Migrant Workers in China. Strangers in New Homelands Conference The 6th Annual Conference on the Social Reconstructing of Home Among Immigrants in the Diaspora. Winnipeg, MB, Canada. 2013. Comparing the Meaning of Work in Second-Generation Chinese Migrant Workers in China and Latin America. The Ninth Graduate Seminar on China. Hong-Kong. 2008. Beyond the Control of State?: The Autonomous Market Behavior of Newly Craft Union in Taiwan. 2008 Annual Conference of Taiwanese Sociological Association: Social Integration and Conflict Twenty Years after Ending Martial Law Rule. Taipei, Taiwan. TEACHING Teaching Assistant (served by Quarter/Course/Professor): Fall2013/Debating Multiculturalism/Elise Kramer Winter2013/Socio-Cultural Foundations/Steven Parish Fall2012/Contemporary Legal Issues/Gerald Doppelt Reader (served by Quarter/Course/Professor): Spring2014/Violence and Society/Cristin McVey Fall2013/Sociology of Law/Kwai Ng Winter2012/Chinese Society/Richard Madsen Fall2011/The Holocaust/ Richard Biernacki EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Executive Council Member of Taiwan Working Holiday Youth (T-WHY), Australia Sep. 2014 Research Assistant for Professor Pei-Chia Lan, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University Sep. 2011 Jan. 2013 Executive Editor for Electronic Paper of Documentary Media Worker Union Nov. 2007 July 2012 Editorial Board Member for Political Science Quarterly Book Review, National Taiwan University Mar. 2007 June 2008 4
REVIEWER Critical Sociology Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal The Sociological Quarterly LANGUAGES Native Mandarin- and Taiwanese-speaker Professional Associations American Sociological Association International Sociological Association Taiwanese Sociological Association 5