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Jina Lee, an assistant professor for the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is a sociologist of evaluation, knowledge, and inequality. Her work asks: how do systems of evaluation determine whose contributions are recognized as original, authoritative, and credible? And how does inequality concentrate in the judgments least governed by clear standards?
She pursues these questions across three arenas: the sciences; cultural canonization; and the AI systems now absorbing parts of scholarly judgment itself, using computational text analysis, bibliometric analysis, and experiments. Her research appears in the American Sociological Review, Gender & Society, and Poetics, among other venues.