So-jung Lim Department of Sociology & Center for Demography and Ecology 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 263-4522 Fax: (608) 262-8400 Email: slim@ssc.wisc.edu EDUCATION 2013 Ph.D. Sociology, University of Wisconsin- Madison (expected) Dissertation: Bad Jobs for Families: Family Outcomes in the Context of Labor Market Changes Qualifying Exams: Demography (with distinction), Sociology of Family Ph.D. Minor: Population Health Sciences 2008 M.S. Sociology, University of Wisconsin- Madison. Thesis title: Educational Differentials in Married Women s Labor Force Participation in Japan during the 1990s. 2001 M.A. Demography and Sociology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China. Thesis title: The Change of Urban Family in China in the 1990s: The Interaction between Society and Family. (in Chinese) 1998 B.A. Chinese, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea. RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Demography; Sociology of Family; Sociology of Health; Social Stratification; Sociology of Work; Social Policy; Quantitative Methods; East Asia AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS 2011 Kerckhoff award, International Sociological Association Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility 2010 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Program dissertation Grants,
So-jung Lim, Curriculum Vitae, Page 2 of 6 2010 Honorable mention, International Sociological Association Fifth Worldwide Paper Competition for Junior Sociologists 2009 2012 Graduate Research Fellow, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin- Madison 2005 Young-Nak Scholarship, Young-Shil Lee foundation 1999 2001 Chinese Government Fellowship for study in China, Chinese Ministry of Education 1998 2000 Academic Excellence Scholarship, Renmin University of China 1995 Academic Excellence Scholarship, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Travel awards & Minor grants 2012 Conference Attendance Support Grant, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2012 Lee Student Support Fund, The Society for the Study of Social Problems 2012 Travel Grant and Conference Scholarship. The Work and Family Researchers Network 2011 Invited poster presenter with travel award, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Symposium on Social Determinants of Child Health, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 2011 Conference Travel Grant, Department of Sociology, 2009 Graduate Student Workshop invite with travel award, International Laboratory for Ph.D. Students in Sociology, International Sociological Association 2008 Travel grant, Stanford Workshop in Formal Demography PUBLICATIONS Guillot, Michel, So-jung Lim, Liudmila Torgasheva, and Mikhail Denisenko. Infant Mortality in Kyrgyzstan before and after the Break-up of the Soviet Union. Conditionally accepted. Population Studies. Raymo, James M. and So-jung Lim. 2011. A New Look at Married Women s Labor Force Transitions in Japan. Social Science Research 40:460-472. Raymo, James M., So-jung Lim, Brienna Perelli-Harris, Marcia J. Carlson, and Miho Iwasawa. 2011. Educational Differences in Early Childbearing: A Cross-national Comparative Study. Pp. 73-104 in The Changing Transition to Adulthood in Japan: Current Demographic Research and Policy Implications, vol. 3, edited by National Institute of Population and Social Security Research. Tokyo: National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.
So-jung Lim, Curriculum Vitae, Page 3 of 6 Raymo, James M., Miho Iwasawa, and So-jung Lim. 2010. Early Marriage and Subsequent Economic Well-Being: A Japan-U.S. Comparison. Pp. 211-248 in The Changing Transition to Adulthood in Japan: Current Demographic Research and Policy Implications, vol. 2, edited by National Institute of Population and Social Security Research. Tokyo: National Institute of Population and Social Security Research. Lim, So-jung. 2001. The Mechanisms of the Dispersion of Science and Technology in Korea, Contemporary Korea 9:60-65 (in Chinese). Reprinted in Dispersion of Science and Technology in Asia, edited by Sha, Lian-xiang. Beijing: Department of Science and Technology of China. MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW Lim, So-jung and James M. Raymo. Back to The Future of Marriage: Marriage and Women s Health in Japan. American Sociological Review. PAPERS IN PROGRESS Lim, So-jung. Bad jobs for Marriage: Relationship between Job Quality and Union Formation in the U.S. Lim, So-jung. Relationships between Mother s Nonstandard Employment and Children s Health Outcomes. (Preparing for submission to Social Science & Medicine) Lim, So-jung and James M. Raymo. Educational Differentials and Mechanisms in Married Women s Labor Force Transitions in Japan. Lim, So-jung. Economic Foundation of Marriage in the Context of Labor Market Changes: A U.S. Japan Comparison. James M. Raymo, Brenna Perelli-Harris, Marcia Carlson, So-jung Lim, and Miho Iwasawa. Cross-national Educational Differences in Early Childbearing. (Preparing for submission to Population and Development Review) CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS Lim, So-jung. Relationships between Mother s Nonstandard Employment and Children s Health Outcomes. Paper presented at the Inaugural Meeting of the Work and Family Researchers Network, New York, June 14 16, 2012. Lim, So-jung. The Implications of the Expansion of Nonstandard Employment for Children s Health. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC. March 31- April 2, 2011. James M. Raymo, Marcia Carlson, Brenna Perelli-Harris, So-jung Lim, and Miho Iwasawa. Educational Differences in Early Childbearing: A Cross-National Comparative Study. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC. March 31- April 2, 2011.
So-jung Lim, Curriculum Vitae, Page 4 of 6 Raymo, James, Miho Iwasawa, and So-jung Lim. 2010. Early Marriage and Subsequent Economic Well- Being: A Japan-U.S. Comparison., Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Dallas, TX. April 17-19, 2010. Lim, So-jung. Economic Foundation of Marriage in the Context of Labor Market Changes, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Dallas, TX. April 17-19, 2010. Lim, So-jung. Educational Differentials in Married Women s Labor Force Transitions in Japan during the 1990s and Early 2000s, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Detroit, MI. April 30-May 2, 2009. Lim, So-jung. Married Women s Working Lives in Japan, Invited presentation at the International Laboratory for Ph.D. Students in Sociology, International Sociological Association, Hayama, Japan. October 3-9, 2009. Michel Guillot and So-jung Lim. Infant Mortality in Kyrgyzstan before and after the Break-up of the Soviet Union, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Detroit, MI. April 30-May 2, 2009. Lim, So-jung, James M. Raymo, and Larry L. Bumpass. Relationships between Marriage and Women s Health in Japan, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA. April 17-19, 2008. James M. Raymo and So-jung Lim. Educational Differences in Married Women s Labor Force Attachment in Japan, Invited presentation at the Conference on Fertility Decline, Women s Choices in the Life Course, and Balancing Work and Family Life: Japan, the USA, and other OECD Countries, Tokyo. May 24-25, 2007. James M. Raymo and So-jung Lim. Labor Force Transitions of Married Women in Japan: The Role of Human Capital, Economic Resources, and Gender Ideology, Invited presentation at the Conference on Fertility Decline, Women s Choices in the Life Course, and Balancing Work and Family Life: Japan, the USA, and other OECD Countries, Chicago. May 15-16, 2006. Sharon Linzey, Yong-yun Lee, and So-jung Lim. Buddhist Conceptions of Health and Reproductive Issues in Asia, Paper presented at the Asia-Pacific Conference on the Reproductive Health, Philippines. February 12-14. 2001. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2010-2012 Research Assistant, Family Transitions and Economic Well-being: A Cross-national Approach. National Science Foundation (SES-1154914). Center for Demography and Ecology, Department of sociology,. PI: James M. Raymo, Marcia J. Carlson. 2009 - Research Assistant, Socioeconomic Differentials in Family Behaviors in Industrialized Countries. Center for Demography and Ecology, Department of sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. PI: James M. Raymo.
2008-2010 Data committee, Reducing Infant Mortality Disparities in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Department of Health Services. PI: Gloria E. Sarto. So-jung Lim, Curriculum Vitae, Page 5 of 6 2006-2009 Research Assistant, Mortality in Central Asia. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R03 HD38752, R01 HD045531). Center for Demography and Ecology, Department of sociology,. PI: Michel Guillot. 2005-2006 Research Assistant, Educational Differences in Married Women s Labor Force Participation in Japan. Center for Demography of Health and Aging, Department of sociology,. PI: James M. Raymo. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2012 Teaching assistant Sociology 360: Statistics for Sociologists I (Professor: John A. Logan) Department of Sociology,. Teaching training 2012 ITAT (International Teaching Assistant Training) Participated in the training program to improve classroom teaching skills. 2011 Sociology 910: Teaching Sociology (Professor: John D. DeLamater) Participated in the seminar on teaching social science courses in college/university settings Department of Sociology,. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Member: American Sociological Association; International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification (RC28); Population Association of America; Society for the Study of Social Problems; Sociologists for Women in Society Reviewer: Gender & Society; Social Science & Medicine Section organizer, Identity, Well-being, and Educational Outcomes among Minorities at the Midwest Sociological Association Annual Meeting. March 2011. Presider of the section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtable, Coresidence/Transition to Adulthood at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 2011. REFERENCES James M. Raymo (Major Advisor) Professor, Department of Sociology jraymo@ssc.wisc.edu, (608) 262-2783
So-jung Lim, Curriculum Vitae, Page 6 of 6 Marcia (Marcy) J. Carlson Professor, Department of Sociology Carlson@ssc.wisc.edu, (608)262-1085 Michel Guillot Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Population Studies Center University of Pennsylvania miguillo@sas.upenn.edu, (215) 898-6441