Congratulations to UBC Sociology PhD candidate Tori Shucheng Yang, who has been awarded a Fox International Fellowship at Yale University!
Tori Shucheng Yang
Tori will soon move to New Haven to begin her position as a Visiting Assistant in Research at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.
Tori’s research interests include transnational migration, gender and sexuality, and social theory. Her doctoral dissertation, titled “Shifting In/Visibilities: Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants in North America,” explores the intersectional identities and migration trajectories of Chinese LGBTQ+ migrants in the United States and Canada.
In recent months, Tori published a paper in Social Problems, “Retheorizing Intersectional Identities with the Study of Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants,” and she has also received awards for her work from the Canadian Sociological Association’s Sociology of Migration Cluster and UBC’s Centre for Migration Studies.
Before joining UBC, Tori had an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a BA in History from the University of Virginia.
