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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
Awards:
Graduate Division Fellowship, University of California, Riverside, 2006
Research Areas:
Families, Gender, Asian Americans, Systems of Inequality
Biography:
Kristy Shih’s current research focuses on transnational, immigrant and racial/ethnic families, gender, and Asian Americans. Using intensive interview data, Kristy (with Professor Karen Pyke) is currently examining family relationships and gender/power dynamics in immigrant families from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan with a particular interest in mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relations. This project is aimed to enhance our theoretical understandings of 1) how cultural values and practices are created, recreated, and maintained in immigrant families, and 2) how different generations of women “bargain” and negotiate their identities and relationships within the family system. In addition, Kristy is a Graduate Student Researcher on the Parents and Youth Study (PAYS) project at the Center for Family Studies. Currently, Kristy is replicating Conger's Economic Stress Model to study the effects of economic stress on Mexican American and European American families. Earlier research examined the roles of gender and acculturation on life stress and resources in Chinese immigrant families, and the division of labor and decision-making in Taiwanese households.
Contact Information: kristy.shih@email.ucr.edu
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