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Hi, I’m Jaime Hsu. I’m a doctoral candidate in Sociology with a specialization in Demography at the University of Texas at Austin. My research focuses on gender and family processes that shape economic and health inequalities across the life course, with a focus on gender and sexual minority (LGBTQI+) populations. My works are published or forthcoming in Social Problems, Demography, Social Forces, Social Science Research, and others. I am affiliated with the Population Research Center, Center for Aging and Population Sciences, and the Urban Ethnography Lab at the University of Texas at Austin.
My dissertation project examines the intersection of work, family, and health across different-sex and same-sex families using national US and dyadic data. In addition to my dissertation, I worked on the embodied costs of gender nonconformity in the labor market. I use survey data to examine how gender nonconformity shapes individuals’ labor market outcomes across their gender and sexual identities (Hsu 2024). Other collaborative projects include the timing to dating relationships (Mernitz, Hsu and Bishop 2023) and to union formations (Mernitz, Hsu and Pollitt 2024) among sexual minority youth, and the mental health consequences of intimate relationships for sexual minority youth (Hsu and Mernitz 2024).
With Drs. Faith Deckard (UCLA), Shannon Malone Gonzalez (UNC-Chapel Hill), and Yasmiyn Irizarry (UT Austin), our projects examine how different types of police contact contributes to Black women’s mental health using a novel dataset, one of which has been accepted at Social Forces. (In Her Place, data effort by Drs. Shannon Malone Gonzalez & Yasmiyn Irizarry).
I am a graduate researcher in the Health and Relationship Project under the supervision of Dr. Deb Umberson, and part of a collaborative qualitative research on bi+ people and their marital dynamics with researchers from UT Austin, Ohio State University (Dr. Rin Reczek), and University of Alabama at Birmingham (Dr. Mieke Thomeer). Originally, I started as a qualitative researcher in the field of transnational family and information technologies (Hsu 2021).
Outside academia, I am a home cook and a proud kitty foster parent.
