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Jiannbin L. Shiao

Email: Jiannbin.L.Shiao@Dartmouth.edu J Shiao

Associate Professor of Sociology

Dartmouth College
6104 Silsby - Room 102
Hanover, NH 03755
603-646-8160

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1998
University of California, Berkeley, M.A. 1996
University of California, Berkeley, M.A. 1994
Brown University, B.A. 1991

Curriculum vitae (PDF format, requires free Acrobat Reader)

Courses Taught at Dartmouth

  • Socy 47  Race and Ethnicity in the US (course syllabus) (formerly Socy 42)
  • Socy 49  A Sociological Introduction to the Asian American Experience (course syllabus)
  • Socy 79  The Sociology of Asian America (see description)

Selected Publications

Shiao, Jiannbin Lee and Mia Tuan. 2008 [Forthcoming]. "'Some Asian men are attractive to me, but for a husband...': Korean Adoptees and the Salience of Race in Romance." Du Bois Review. 5(2).

Shiao, Jiannbin Lee and Mia H. Tuan. 2008. "Korean Adoptees and the Social Context of Ethnic Exploration." American Journal of Sociology. 113 (4): pp. 1023-1066.

Shiao, Jiannbin L. and Mia H. Tuan. 2007. "A Sociological Approach to Race, Identity, and Asian Adoption." Pp. 151-166 in Kathleen Bergquist, Betsy Vonk, and Dong Soo Kim, eds. International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.

Shiao, Jiannbin Lee. 2005. Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity: Race and Philanthropy in Post-Civil Rights America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Shiao, Jiannbin Lee. 1998. "The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector: Professionalism vs. Identity Politics in Private Policy Definitions of Asian Americans." Asian American Policy Review, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. 8: pp. 17-43.

Work in Progress

Shiao, Jiannbin Lee, Thomas Bode, and Amber Beyer, with Alison Fox, Daniel Selvig, and Justin Tandingan. "The Genomic Challenge to the Social Construction of Race." [Article manuscript]

Mia Tuan and Jiannbin Lee Shiao. Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race: Korean Adoptees in America. [Book manuscript]

Faculty Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Asian American Studies
  • Philanthropic Diversity Policy
  • Transracial, transnational Adoption
  • Racial/Ethnic Identity
  • Race/Ethnicity and Genomics
  • Interracial Intimacy, Friendships, and Segregation

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Last Updated: 3/13/09