Isaiah Jeong
Graduate Student
Sociology
Pronouns: He/Him/His
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About
Specialty Areas: Race and Ethnicity, Inter-minority Politics, Sociological Theory, Social Movements, Sociology of Religion
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Research interests: I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago. My work as an ethnographer examines race relations in the South Side of Chicago. For the last three years, I have detailed the interracial politics of Black and Asian Americans through participant observations, archival work, and interviews in Chicago’s historic Bronzeville and Chinatown neighborhoods. Through an intersectional lens (race, class, gender, and religion), I uncover the conditions that hinder or enable conflictual, neutral, and collaborative inter-minority relations across varied organizational contexts. Another major focus of work examines how religion shapes racial formation processes and political movements. I have published two peer-reviewed articles (Journal of Scientific Studies of Religion and Political Theology [forthcoming]) and two book chapters (Taylor and Francis and Oxford University Press). My research has been supported by several grants, including the American Sociological Association (ASA DDRIG), the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy.