Grace Kao
IBM Professor of Sociology and Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (Secondary); Faculty Director; Education Studies; Director, CERSI
Education:
Ph.D., Sociology, The University of Chicago, 1997
A.M., Sociology, The University of Chicago, 1992
A.B., University of California, Berkeley, Sociology and Oriental Languages (Chinese Literature), 1990
Areas of Interest:
Race and Ethnicity; Immigrant Adaptation; Sociology of Education; Adolescence; Asian Americans
Address:
493 College Street, Room 407
Phone number:
203-432-3793
Email:
g.kao@yale.edu
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Grace Kao is IBM Professor of Sociology and Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (Secondary appointment, by courtesy) at Yale University. She is also Faculty Director of Education Studies and Director of the Center for Empirical Research on Stratification and Inequality (CERSI) at Yale University.
Her research focuses on: (1) Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Differences in Educational Outcomes and Transition to Adulthood; (2) Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships; (3) Social Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic; (4) Dating and Marriage in S. Korea; and (5) Sociology of Music, especially K-Pop and the Hallyu. She has written numerous articles and book on these topics.
Her most recent books are Diversity and The Transition to Adulthood in America (2022; co-authored with Phoebe Ho and Hyunjoon Park, University of California Press) and The Company We Keep: Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood (2019; co-authored with Kara Joyner and Kelly Stamper Balistreri, Russell Sage Foundation). Her most recent article on K-Pop is forthcoming (2023) in the Journal of Popular Music Studies (“’I Need You’: The Importance of Audience Participation in Online K-pop Concerts During COVID-19”), co-authored with Wonseok Lee.
In 2017, she received the “Contribution to the Field Award” from the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America. She was also named the Robin Murphy Williams Lecturer by the Eastern Sociological Society in 2018.
She is Past Vice-President of the American Sociological Association. She has served on the Boards of the Population Association of America and the Association for Asian American Studies. In addition to serving as Past Vice-President of the American Sociological Association, she has served as Council member for the Sections of Asia/Asian America and Sociology of Education, and she has served as Chair of the Section of Children and Youth, and served on ASA’s Nominations Committee. She has also served or currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the American Sociological Review, NYU Press’ Series on Asian American Sociology, Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Research, Social Psychology Quarterly, Sociological Forum, Sociological Perspectives, Social Problems, and Socius.
According to Google Scholar, her work has been cited over 14,000 times
Courses and Seminars
Undergraduate
- SOCY 144A. Race, Ethnicity and Immigration
- SOCY 081B. Race and Place in British New Wave, K-Pop, and Beyond
Graduate
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SOCY 663. Sociology of Education