Christina Pao

Current PhD student at Princeton University in Sociology, with a joint degree in Social Policy and affiliation with the Office of Population Research (OPR). MPhil Sociology and Demography at the University of Oxford (2022). Yale University graduate (2020) with a joint B.A./M.A. in Political Science and an intensive B.A. in Classics (Ancient Greek and Latin).

Chosen as a 2019 Truman Scholar and 2020 Rhodes Scholar for commitments to public service and research. Studies survey methods, social demography, and identity (e.g., by gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and immigration status).

• 2023
  • Awarded the Robert F. Dentler Student Practitioner Award from the ASA Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology.
  • Conference proceedings published in Writing from Below.
  • Book chapter published in the 2nd Edition of Distinct Identities: Minority Women in U.S. Politics (ed. Nadia E. Brown and Sarah Allen Gershon).
  • Featured on Migration Oxford podcast episode.
• 2022
  • “Measuring Migration” Conference Proceedings Book published with the Transnational Press London.
  • Article published in Electoral Studies.
  • Article published in the Journal of Aging and Health.
  • Graduated with an MPhil from Nuffield College, University of Oxford (Distinction).
• 2021
  • Article published in PLOS One.
• 2020
  • Published a feature with Jordan Cozby in the New England Archivists July 2020 Newsletter.
  • Graduated with a B.A./M.A. from Yale University (Magna Cum Laude; Distinction in the major; Phi Beta Kappa).
  • Awarded the Frank M. Patterson Prize for ‘Most Outstanding Scholarship in American Politics throughout the course of the Political Science major.’
  • Granted the George A. Schrader, Jr., Prize from Branford College (Yale University), for “readiness to listen and to advise, and for never being too busy to help.”
• 2019
  • Published with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP).
  • Granted the John C. Schroeder award from Branford College (Yale University), which is for “students who have contributed to residential college life and who, in the opinion of the committee, will ‘play a part in the good labor of the world.'”
  • Awarded the Truman Scholarship for graduate studies related to a future career in public service.
  • Awarded the Rhodes Scholarship for graduate studies at Oxford.