Yung-Yi Diana Pan
Associate Professor
Sociology
Location: 3606 James Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x1776
Fax: 718.951.4639
Email:
Yung-Yi Diana Pan joined the Department of Sociology in 2012. Her research interests intersect race/ethnicity, immigrant adaptation, culture, and professions. She is currently working on two separate, yet intertwined projects, examining inequality, writ large. One projects looks at race and racism within the professions, and another interrogates the culture and processes of recovery for drug addicts.
Her first book, Incidental Racialization: Performative Assimilation in Law School (Temple University Press, 2017) examines the socialization of Asian American and Latino law students as racialized immigrants entering an elite profession.
Diana approaches teaching as an interactive endeavor between the students and the instructor. Feel free to visit her personal website for more information: www.yungyidianapan.com
Spring 2020 Office Hours Wednesdays, 3-4pm via Zoom:
https://brooklyncollege.zoom.us/j/5616815251
Meeting ID: 561 681 5251
Or email for appointment.
Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine - 2012 (Sociology)
MA, University of California Irvine - 2007 (Sociology)
M.A., San Francisco State University - 2005 (Ethnic Studies)
B.A., Oregon State University - 2002 (Political Science and Ethnic Studies)
Areas of Expertise:
Institutional cultures, immigrant adaptation, race and ethnicity, culture, professional education, professions, ethnic studies, qualitative research methods.
Books and Publications
(with Daisy Verduzco Reyes). "The Norm among the Exceptional? Latino Student Experiences in Elite Institutions." Sociological Inquiry 90(1):
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
"Incidental Racialization: Asian Americans in Law School." Asian Americans and the Law issue of The Practice 5:1. https://thepractice.law.harvard.edu/issue/volume-5-issue-1/ [electronic journal of Harvard Law School's Center on the Legal Profession]
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2018
Review of Focusing on the Underserved: Immigrant, Refugee, and Indigenous
Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education. Edited by Sam D. Museus, Amefil Agbayani, and Doris M. Ching. Teachers College Record. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2018
(With Daisy V. Reyes.) "Microaggressions through the Pipeline: How Elite Institutions Broker Panethnic Understanding Among Latinos." Under peer review. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2017
Incidental Racialization: Performative Assimilation in Law School (Temple University Press). (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2017
(with Megan T. Thiele, and Devin T. Molina). "Alienating Students: Marxist Theory in Action." [lead article] LATISS: Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences 9(1): 4-28. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
Pan, Yung-Yi Diana. "To Work or Not to Work Before Law School?: Apprehension, Confidence, and Cynicism Among Law Students." International Journal of Clinical Legal Education 23(3): 5-51. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
Pan, Yung-Yi Diana. "Typecast Socialization: Race, Gender, and Competing
Expectations in Law School." Pp. 141-172 in Diversity in Practice: Race, Gender, and Class in Legal and Professional Careers (edited by Robert Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer, David Wilkins, and Spencer Headworth), Cambridge University Press.
(Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2016
(with Raj Ghoshal). "Asian American Privilege? A Skeptical but Nuanced View, and a Call for More Research." Org Theory Blog. https://orgtheory.wordpress.com/ [high profile and traffic sociology blog]
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2015
Pan, Yung-Yi Diana. "Becoming a (Pan)ethnic Attorney: How Asian American and Latino Law Students Negotiate Identities." Sociological Forum 30(1): 148-169. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
"Finding Their Place: How Adoptive Parents Utilize Chinese Activities for Inclusion in Multiple Americas." Journal of Asian American Studies 16: 91-119. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
"Asian Americans." Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History: 1946-1975 7th ed. Ed. Thomas Langston. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2010
"Transcending 'Just Another Baccalaureate Requirement': Operationalizing the Teachings of Difference, Power and Discrimination." Teaching for Change: The Difference, Power and Discrimination Model. Eds. Jun Xing, Judith Li, Larry Roper and Susan Shaw. Laham, Md.: Lexington Books. 183-91. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2007
Review of The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business, and Reverse Migration, by Haiming Liu. Journal of American Ethnic History Winter/Spring: 346-47. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2006
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Tow Faculty Research Travel Award - Brooklyn College, CUNY ($2,195) (Grants and Fellowships) 2020
The Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York (PSC-CUNY)
Research Award ($5,274.24)
(Grants and Fellowships) 2018
Tow Faculty Research Travel Award - Brooklyn College, CUNY ($1,000)
(Grants and Fellowships) 2018
Gittell Junior Faculty Research Award ? Gittell Urban Studies Collective, CUNY ($4,000) (Grants and Fellowships) 2015
Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (CUNY-wide)
(Grants and Fellowships) 2014
Stewart Travel Grant ? Brooklyn College (Grants and Fellowships) 2014
The Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York (PSC-CUNY)
Research Award ($3,500)
(Grants and Fellowships) 2014
Research Activities
(With Dana Y. Nakano) "Fresh Off the Boat and into Network Television" tentative title (Data collection in progress) 2017
Project examining the role of race, social class, and culture in drug addiction and recovery. 2017
Race in the professions -- project examining the role of race among professionals 2017
Longitudinal study: follow up interviews with currently practicing attorneys. 2013
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Diverse Enough? Asian American and Latinx in Elite Professions." - Panel on Diversity at Work, presented at Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA Februrary 27-March 1.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
"How to be Sort of Happy in Law School" - critic (with Ronit Dinovitzer and Ann Southworth) on Author Meets Reader of Kathryne M. Young's new book organized by Swethaa Ballakrishnen. Law and Society Association annual meeting, Washington D.C. May 30-June 2.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2019
Plenary Session: "America Polarized: What Drives us Apart? What Brings us
Together?" Association of American Law Schools' Conference on Clinical Legal Education, San Francisco, CA, May 4.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
"Microaggressions through the Pipeline: How Elite Institutions Broker Panethnic Understanding Among Latinos" (with Daisy V. Reyes) presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Seattle, WA August 20-23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"Ceilings of Success: Asian American Women in Elite Professions." Mapping Asian Americans in New York (MAANY) Seminar. Asian American/Asian Research Institute, Roosevelt House ? Hunter College, April 15.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Conventionals and Returnees: Preparation, Confidence, and Cynicism among Law Students" presented at the American Sociological Association meeting, Chicago, IL, August 22-25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"Abandoning Perfectionism, Redefining Productivity: Work/Family Strategies for New Faculty." To be presented at the Pacific Sociological Association. Portland, Ore., March 27-30. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Law Is So Much Bullsh*t: Work Experience, Curriculum Requirements, and Career Outlook." Eastern Sociological Society Meeting. Baltimore, Feb. 20-23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"To Work or Not to Work...Before Law School: Apprehension and Confidence Among Law Students." To be presented at the Law and Society Association Meeting. Minneapolis, May 29-June 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Typecast Socialization: Race, Gender, and Competing Expectations in Law School" presented at the American Sociological Association meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 16-19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
Pan, Yung-Yi Diana, Megan T. Thiele and Devin T. Molina. "Alienating Students: Marxist Theory in Action." To be presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Meeting. Portland, Ore., March 27-30. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"'You See? They're Not Good Enough to Be Here': How Race and Gender Shape Confidence in Law School." Eastern Sociological Society Meeting. Boston, March 21-24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Professional Socialization as the Other Other: How Women of Color Law Students Experience Competing Expectations." American Bar Foundation Research Group on Legal Diversity Conference. Chicago, May 10-11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"The Law Student That Could: Gender and Emotions in Law School." Law and Society Association International Meeting. Honolulu. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"What's Race Got to Do With It? Negotiating Multiple Identities in Law School." American Sociological Association. Denver. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"'This Is the Hardest Thing I've Ever Done!' Managing Emotions in Law School." Society for the Study of Social Problems Meeting. Las Vegas. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Learning to Become a Lawyer of Color: How Asian American and Latino Law Students Navigate Professional and (Pan)ethnic identities." Population, Society and Inequality Colloquia Series. Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2011
"Learning to Sellout: Elastic Professional Boundaries for Nonwhite Attorneys-in-Training." Law and Society Association Meeting. San Francisco. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Unintentional Racialization: the Presence and Significance of Race in Law School." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Las Vegas. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Unintentional Racialization: The Salience of Race in Law School." Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Seattle. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
Professional Leadership
Asian/Asian American Studies Steering Committee, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
Chair, Honorary Degree Selection Committee, Faculty Council, Brooklyn College - CUNY (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016
Chair, Committee on Honorary Degrees, Faculty Council, Brooklyn College - CUNY (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
Honors Academy Reading Day (Admissions Selection for the 2019 cohort), Brooklyn College - CUNY
(Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
Member, Membership and Professional Issues Committee, Law and Society Association (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
Zicklin Summer Fellows Selection Committee, Brooklyn College - CUNY (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
Board member, Asian/Asian American Research Initiative, CUNY. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2014
Faculty adviser, Sociology Club, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2014
Member, Mapping Asian Americans in New York (MAANY) ? CUNY (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2014
Pedagogical Achievements
Teaching Excellence and Service to the Academic Community Award (university-wide honor), Division of Undergraduate Education, University of California, Irvine. 2008
Community Activities
Panelist, "Focus on Diversity & Inclusion in the Profession, Pro Bono Service,
and Civil Rights Practice" - Race and the Law class, Brooklyn Law School, November 15.
2017
Invited speaker, "Racism versus Prejudice." Social Justice Series. Black and Latino Males Initiative, City University of New York ? Brooklyn College, October 25 2016
Other Professional Activities
Organizer (Regular Session on Race, Class, and Gender), American Sociological Association annual meeting in San Francisco, CA 2020
"How Asian and Latinx Students Experience Law School." Interview with Andi Pla and
Elizabeth Tippett, Oregon Law Lab, Episode 16. Available at: https://youtu.be/PjnuB51nKd4
2019
Guest Speaker, Professor Daisy Reyes' "Race and Eduation" Graduate class. University of Connecticut, May 1.
2019
"Is There any Racism in Law Schools?" By Summer Sit, SinoVision. May 14, 2018.
Available at: https://youtu.be/_E6SYaFkVME
2018
"The Bamboo Glass Ceiling." By Tiffany Tso, Slate. August 8, 2018. Available at:
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/08/asian-american-women-face-a-glass-ceiling-and-a-bamboo-ceiling-at-work.html
2018
"The Effect of Intersectionality in the Workplace." By Alina Tugend. The New York Times. September 30, 2018. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/us/the-effect-of-intersectionality-in-the-workplace.html
2018
Member, Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, Section on Teaching Social Problems, Society for the Study of Social Problems. 2013
Member, Steering Committee, International Migration Section Mini-Conference, American Sociological Association, New York. 2013
Session organizer (Professional Immigrants: Migration, Integration and Mobility; Qualitative Methods: Field Work and Researcher Positionality), Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle. 2011
Session organizer (Migration, Community and Politics), Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, Calif. 2010
