Professor Lee’s interests include race and ethnicity, gender, immigration, political sociology, law and society, and sociology of science and medicine. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, Dr. Lee has pursued these broad interests in research related to capriciousness in death penalty sentencing (with Weiss and Berk in Law and Society Review), inequalities related to solving homicides (Journal of Criminal Justice), migrant workers’ and women’s rights in South Korea (with Seol and Skrentny in Korean Studies Forum), politics of immigrant exclusion at the turn of the last century (book manuscript in progress), and the construction of race and ethnicity in biomedicine and health policy.

Prior to joining the department, Professor Lee was a postdoctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at the University of Michigan from 2003-05.  She was also a guest scholar at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California at San Diego and a dissertation fellow of the Social Sciences Research Council’s Sexuality Research Fellowship Program.