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Kristy Shih
Degrees:
BA, Psychology and Sociology, 2002, University of Richmond
MS, Human Development and Family Studies, 2004, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MA, Sociology, 2008, University of California, Riverside
Awards:
Graduate Division Fellowship, University of California, Riverside, 2006
Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Riverside, 2009-2010
Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Research Grant, University of California, Riverside, 2009-2010
Research Areas:
Families, Gender,
Race/Ethnicity,
Asian Americans,
Power,
Systems of Inequality
Publications:
Kristy Y. Shih and Scott Coltrane. (in press). “Gender and the Division of Labor” In J. Chrisler & D. McCreary (Eds.), Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology . New York : Springer.
Kristy Y. Shih and Karen Pyke. (in press). “Power, resistance and emotional economies in women's relationships with mothers-in-law in Chinese immigrant families.” Journal of Family Issues. Biography:
Kristy Shih, a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at UCR, has research interests on immigrant, transnational, and racial/ethnic families, gender and power dynamics, intergenerational relationships, and acculturation. During Fall 2009, Kristy will be conducting her dissertation research fieldwork as a Visiting Research Student in the Department of Sociology at the National Taiwan University .
Kristy's dissertation research will interrogate and challenge a tendency toward cultural and racial essentialism in scholarship on racial/ethnic families. By comparing marital and in-law relationships across three groups (Chinese in Taiwan, ethnic Chinese Americans, and Mexican Americans), this study will research against the tendency in family scholarship to reduce racial/ethnic family dynamics to cultural ideals and practices and downplay the role of structural factors as well as intra-group diversity and cross-group similarities. Drawing on qualitative interviews with women, their husbands, and mothers-in-law, this dissertation will explore gender and generational power dynamics, with attention to within-group variation as well as between-group similarities and differences. This study will also examine gender solidarity and conflict in the relations of wives and their mothers-in-law, as well as how popular images of contentious in-law relations and the ideology of motherhood inform respondents' understanding of their relationship.
Contact Information: kristy.shih@email.ucr.edu
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