Jee hye Kang
3834 Campus Drive, College Park MD 20742
Cell: +1-631 875 7928
jkang125@umd.edu
PROFESSIONAL INTEREST
Demography; Stratification; Gender, Work, and Family; Immigration
EDUCATION
Doctoral Candidate, University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation, “Internalizing Behavioral Problems of Children in L.A: Extended Family,
Neighborhood, And Nativity. “ Committee members: Philip N. Cohen, Feinian Chen, Julie
Park, Michael Rendall, Sandra Hofferth.
M.A.
University of Maryland at College Park, 2012
B.A.
SUNY Stony Brook Sociology, 2008-2010, summa cum laude
B.A.
Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea Public Administration, 2006-2010
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
Kang, Jeehye, and Philip N. Cohen. “Employment of Asian Immigrant Women and Older Families
in Their Households in the US” Journal of Family Issue, accepted February 2015.
UNDER REVIEW
Kang, Jeehye, Philip N. Cohen. “Additional Risks or Resources? The Influence of Extended Family
Household on Internalizing Behavioral Problem of Children in Los Angeles.”
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
Kang, Jeehye, Philip N. Cohen. “Unequal extended families: Internalizing Behavioral Problem of
Children in Complex Extended Family Living Arrangements.”
Kang, Jeehye, The Community Contextual Effect of Extended Family Structure and Internalizing
Behavioral Problem of Children in Los Angeles.
Kang, Jeehye, Philip N. Cohen, and Feinian Chen. “Household Extension, Reducing or Reinforcing
Inequality? Recent Immigrant Women’s Employment.”
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Philip N. Cohen, Meredith Kleykamp, and Jeehye Kang. “Gender inequality, meet economic
inequality”, American Sociological Association, presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting
Jeehye Kang, Philip N. Cohen. “Additional Risks or Resources? The Influence of Extended Family
Household on Internalizing Behavioral Problem of Children of Latino Angeles”, Population
Association of America, to be presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting
Daesung Choi, Gabriela Sanchez-Soto, Jeehye Kang. “The Economic and Cultural Assimilation on
Health of Immigrants over 50 in the US”, American Sociological Association, presented at the 2014
Annual Meeting
Jeehye Kang, “Household Extension, Reducing or Reinforcing Inequality? Recent Immigrant
Women’s Employment”, Population Association of America, presented at the 2014 Annual
Meeting
Jeehye Kang, Philip N. Cohen, “Employment of Asian Immigrant Women and Older Families in
Their Households in the US,” American Sociological Association, presented at the 2013 Annual
Meeting
Jeehye Kang, and Alan Neustadtl, “Social Life in Online Neighborhood: Conversational Network
Analysis in Nation of Neighbors,” The Eastern Sociological Society,” presented at the 2012 Annual
Meeting
Jeehye Kang, “Myth of Neoliberalism in South Korea: Neo-liberalization with absence of
Neoliberalism,” The American Sociological Association, presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
The University of Maryland Sociology department summer ICPSR fellowship, 2015
The University of Maryland Sociology department summer research fellowship, 2012
The Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowships is a competitive scholarship program at the
university level that funds students to concentrate on their research over summer.
Kumjatop Scholarship, Chungnam National University, South Korea, 2006-2010
The Korean Foundation for Advanced Studies, South Korea, 2008-2009
This scholarship is offered to promising young undergraduate students in social sciences, natural
sciences, electrical engineering and computer science, who are aspiring to become leading scholars
in their field.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistance, University of Maryland, Economic Inequality and the Stalled Progresses
toward Gender Equality, PI: Philip N. Cohen and Meredith Kleykamp, Aug 2014Research Assistance, University of Maryland and Rand Corporation, Displaced New Orleans
Residents Study; PI: Narayan Sastry, Jan 2014-Aug 2014
Research Assistance, Maryland Population Research Center Seed Grant. PI: Philip N. Cohen, May
2013-Aug 2013
Research Assistance, University of Maryland and National Science Foundation, PI: Ben
Schneiderman, Aug 2010-Aug 2011
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teacher, SOCY 100: Introduction to Sociology, University of Maryland, Aug 2013-Dec 2013
Teaching Assistance, Introduction to Sociology, University of Maryland, Aug 2011-May 2013
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Treasurer, The Sociology Graduate Student Forum, University of Maryland, Aug 2014-May 2015
PREVIOUS POSITION
United States Naval Academy 49th Annual Foreign Affairs Conference, Annapolis, Maryland.
Represented South Korea/SUNY Stony Brook as a foreign delegate, April 13-17, 2009.
United States Military Academy 60th Annual Student Conference on US Affairs (SCUSA), West
Point, New York. Represented South Korea/SUNY Stony Brook as a foreign delegate, November
5-8, 2008.
Exchange Student from Chungnam National University, South Korea, to Stony Brook University,
2008.
International Work Camp, Muniguda, India. Social work in Bethel orphanage, January, 2007.
The Chungdae Post, the official English Language Magazine of Chungnam National University.
Local News Reporter, April-November, 2006.
EXPERTISE AND SKILLS
Proficient in the use of SAS, STATA, SPSS, and moderate in the use of ArcGIS, and Atlas ti.
Fluent in Korean (native) and English languages. Workable Spanish language.