Jiannbin Shiao

Associate Professor
Associate Director, Ethnic Studies Program

Address: 632 PLC University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403	Phone:	(541) 346-5366
	Fax:	(541) 346-5026
	Email:	jshiao@uoregon.edu

Professor Shiao received his B.A. in Women's Studies from Brown University in 1991, and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998. He joined the University of Oregon faculty in 1998, and he is currently Associate Professor of Sociology and the Associate Director of Ethnic Studies. His scholarship examines the dialectical relationship between demographic heterogeneity and race relations in the post-civil rights era, or in other words, between the quantity and quality of diversity. His theoretical focus has been the critique and extension of racial formation theory through empirical studies of its gaps and tensions with other paradigms that emphasize immigrant assimilation and Black exceptionalism. His research, which has received funding from the Russell Sage Foundation, has employed primarily qualitative methods. He is currently working on a book manuscript with Mia Tuan on transracial international adoption focusing on the racial and ethnic identities and life experiences of Korean adoptees and on an article with his students from a recent seminar on "The Genomic Challenge to the Social Construction of Race."

Research Interests

philanthropic diversity policy
racial/ethnic identity of transracial adoptees
social segregation and interracial intimacy
race/ethnicity and genetics

Teaching Areas

race & ethnicity
education
Asian American studies
research methods

Courses Taught

SOC 311	Introduction to Social Research
SOC 345	Race, Class and Ethnic Groups
SOC 410	Identity and Assimilation in the Asian American Experience
SOC 445	Sociology of Race Relations
SOC 491	Sociology of Education
SOC 613	Qualitative Methods II

Selected Awards

2001-2003. Sponsored project grant ($145,752), Russell Sage Foundation, for the research project "Asian Immigrants in White Families: Korean Adoptees in America" (Co-Principal Investigator: Mia Tuan).

Selected Publications

Forthcoming. Shiao, Jiannbin Lee and Mia Tuan. "Korean Adoptees and the Social Context of Ethnic Exploration." American Journal of Sociology.

In press. Shiao, Jiannbin and Mia Tuan. "Shared Fates in Asian Transracial Adoption: Korean adoptee experiences of difference in their families." In Andrew Grant-Thomas and Gary Orfield, eds. Color Lines: Exploring the Frontiers of Americas Multiracial Present and Future. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

2007 Shiao, Jiannbin L. and Mia H. Tuan. 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.

2005 Shiao, Jiannbin Lee. Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity: Race and Philanthropy in Post-Civil Rights America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. [View PDF cover design] [Reviews]

2004 Shiao, Jiannbin Lee, Mia Tuan, and Elizabeth Rienzi. "Shifting the Spotlight: Exploring Race and Culture in Korean-White Adoptive Families." Race and Society. 7(1): 1-16.

2002 Shiao, Jiannbin Lee. "The Political and Philanthropic Contexts for Incorporating Asian American Communities." Pp. 216-228 in Linda Trinh Vo and Rick Bonus, eds. Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersections and Divergences. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

1998 Shiao, Jiannbin Lee. "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. [View PDF full text]

Education

Ph.D. -- California, Berkeley