Email: s12357@ms24.hinet.net

EDUCATION        

PhD          The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Dec. 2008)            

                 Major: Political Science       Dissertation Chair: John R. Hibbing

                 Specialization: American Politics

                                         Public Policy

                                         East Asian Politics

                    Dissertation topic: Individualism and Civic Engagement in the U.S.

MA          The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2005)

                Major: Political Science          Thesis Chair: Elizabeth Theiss-Morse

                Thesis topic: Economic Individualism, Social Individualism, and

                                    Political Participation 

BA          Chinese Culture University (2001)   Taipei, Taiwan

              Major: Journalism                         

PAPER IN PROGRESS

• “Network Heterogeneity, Partisan Defection, and Voter Turnout: A Study of Taiwan’s 2006 Taipei and Kaohsiung Mayoral Elections” Political Behavior (Under Review; with Frank C.S. Liu) [SSCI]
• “Social Individualism, Economic Individualism and Political Participation.” Political Psychology. (Under review) [SSCI]
• “An Impact Analysis of the Motor Voter and the Mail Registration Policies on Voting Probability.” will be shortly submitted to American Politics Research [SSCI]
• “Asian American Candidates and Deracialization Strategy”

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

• “Asian American State Legislators and Policymaking in California” in Strange Legislative Bedfellows: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Party in State Legislators. With Byron D'Andra Orey. (Forthcoming)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

• “台灣主流報紙「政黨偏好」因素分析” 兩岸新聞傳播高峰論壇：數位時代兩岸新聞傳媒發展現況與遠景 - June, 2009 台北國父紀念館

• 金融海嘯對東亞的衝擊-台灣在美中新局下的迴旋空間” 第五屆中部外交論壇：東亞區域整合的新發展 - May, 2009 台中東海大學

• “台灣海洋觀光大三元：景點商機、深度旅遊與生態保育” 第二屆海洋事務論壇 -April, 2009 台中東海大學

• “An Impact Analysis of the NVRA (Motor Voter Act).” Great Plains Conference Program- Sept, 2008
• “A Deracialized Strategy and Asian American Candidates.” Midwest Political Science Association Conference- April, 2008.
• “The distinction between social individualism and economic individualism.” Western Political Science Association Conference -March, 2006.
• “American isolation behavior and its behavior implication.” Midwest Political Science Association Conference- April, 2006.

COUSES TAUGHT

• Tunghai University
  • Thesis Writing (undergraduate), Spring 2008
  • American Politics (graduate; undergraduate), Spring 2008
  • Comparative Politics (undergraduate), Spring 2008
• University of Nebraska at Lincoln
  • Public Issues in America (POLS 232), Fall 2008
  • Developmental Politics in East Asia (POLS 274), Spring 2007
  • Chinese, a community service under Asian Studies, 2006~2007 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (TA)

• Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Arts and Science Advising Center, Introduction to Health Professions (PSYC150), 2007-2008

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (RA)

• Graduate Research Assistantship. Arts & Science Advising Center. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007-2008. Quantitatively analyzed academic advising data.
• Graduate Research Assistantship. Arts & Science Advising Center. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006-2007. Conducted nine focus group interviews regarding students’ learning experience in History, Psychology and Computer Science departments at UNL.
• Graduate Research Grant, Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2004-2005 “Media Bias and the Second Intifada” with Professors John Gruhl, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, and Jeff Spinner-Halev.

INVITED TALK

• “The US Framework of Whites’ Attitude Toward Minority Groups and Its Application in the Racial Context of Taiwan” 講題：態度決定微笑的角度-以美國白人對弱勢族群態度研究, 審視台灣「漢原」及「漢外」關係 given at Institute of Austronesian Studies, National Taitung University 國立台東大學南島文化研究所, Taiwan 12.27.2007

PERSONAL GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS

RESERCH INTEREST

Political Participation

East Asia Politics

Political Psychology

Race and Politics

Educational Policy

Quantitative Method

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE

Graduate Certificate of Specialization in Public Policy Analysis, given by Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln-Expected 2008.  

Specialization: Education Policy

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of American Political Science Association 2007-2008

Member of Midwest Political Science Association 2006-2007

UNIVERSITY SERVICES

Advisor, Students for Obama group, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Fall 2008-present 

LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH

REFERENCES

• John R. Hibbing, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, tel. # 402-472-3220 (office), fax # 402-472-8192 (fax), email jhibbing1@unl.edu
• Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, tel.# 402-472-3221 (office), # 402-472-8192 (fax), email etheissmorse1@unl.edu