Minyoung An

Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University

I study how gendered institutions shape migration, career trajectories, political identity, and the reproduction of social inequality.

Portrait of Minyoung An

Encina Hall, 616 Jane Stanford Way

Stanford University, CA 94305

Research approach

My research examines how gender, both as an individual attribute and as an institutional force, shapes decision-making processes and, in turn, perpetuates social inequality. I investigate this intersecting multilevel force across 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 such inquiries, I deploy a wide variety of methods, including quantitative methods, computational methods, and in-depth interviews.