Minyoung An

Minyoung An is a PhD candidate in the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona. Her research examines how gender, both as an individual attribute and as an institutional force, shapes decision-making processes and in turn, perpetuates social inequality. She investigates this intersecting multilevel force to explore a spectrum of individual choices—from explicit life path decisions such as migration and educational pursuits, to implicit processes of identity formation, including political partisanship and ideologies. To explore these questions, she deploys a wide variety of methods, including quantitative methods, computational methods, and in-depth interviews.