Curriculum Vitae

Assistant Professor of Sociology

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ph.D. in Sociology

The University of Arizona

Dissertation: Gender Dynamics and Novelty Claims in Science

(Computational Social Science Certificate)

M.A. in Sociology

Yonsei University

B.A. in Sociology and Political Science

Yonsei University

Lee, Jina. “Gendered Pathways to Perpetual Fame: The Selection of Elite Novelists into the Korean Literary Canon.” The Association for Korean Sociologists in America, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Lee, Jina. “Selective Recognition: Gendered Recognition of Different Types of Scientific Novelty.” The Center for Complex Networks and Systems, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Lee, Jina. “Selective Recognition: Gendered Recognition of Different Types of Scientific Novelty.” The Center for Science of Science & Innovation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Lee, Jina. “Measuring the Abstract: Novelty and Uncertainty in Scientific Publications.” AI and Data for Social Good, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Lee, Jina. “Are Women’s Work and Claims Received as More Uncertain?” Women in Data Science Worldwide, Tucson, AZ. [Virtual]

Lee, Jina. “Are Women’s Work and Claims Received as More Uncertain?” Knowledge Lab at the University of Chicago. [Virtual]

Lee, Jina. “Gendered Pathways to Perpetual Fame: The Selection of Elite Novelists into the Korean Literary Canon.” 2025 International Conference on the Sociology of Korea (I-CSK), Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

Lee, Jina. “Selective Recognition: Gendered Recognition of Different Types of Scientific Novelty.” 120th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Paik, Eugene T., Jina Lee, Russell Funk, Erin Leahey. “Divide and Conquer? How Partitioned Audiences Shape the Impact of Domain-Spanning Innovation.” 120th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Lee, Jina. “Selective Recognition: Gendered Recognition of Different Types of Scientific Novelty.” American Sociological Association Methodology Section Mid-year Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Lee, Jina. “Are Women’s Work and Claims Received as More Uncertain?” TADA 2023: New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data, Amherst, MA.

Lee, Jina. “Are Women’s Work and Claims Received as More Uncertain?” 118th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Lee, Jina. “Are Women’s Work and Claims Received as More Uncertain?” Doctoral Consortium, International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics 2023 Conference, Bloomington, IN.

Leahey, Erin, Jina Lee, and Russell Funk. “What Types of Novelty are Most Disruptive?” 81st Annual Meeting of Academy of Management. [Virtual]

Consultant. Sub-grant from Humility in Inquiry: Foundations and New Directions project funded by John Templeton Foundation Project: Developing a Text-based Measure of HI and Examining Contextual Effects (PI: Erin Leahey, Co-PI: Sarah Bratt, Co-PI: Charles Gomez)

Social and Behavioral Sciences Summer Dissertation Fellowship, University of Arizona.

Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute Dissertation Research Grant, University of Arizona.

Raymond V. Bowers Best Student Paper Award, School of Sociology, University of Arizona

Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute Pre-Doctoral Research Grant, University of Arizona

Participant, 11th Medici Summer School in Management Studies, HEC Paris.

Social and Behavioral Sciences Graduate Fellowship, University of Arizona

Brain Korea21 + Research Fellowship. Funded by National Research Foundation of Korea

National Research Fellowship for Social Science and Humanities Graduates. Funded by Korea Student Aid Foundation

Early Career Review Board Member, Social Science Research.

Ad Hoc Reviewer, reviewed manuscripts for the following journals: American Sociological Review, Gender & Society, Social Science Research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Poetics, Socius, International Sociology