Background

Jenny is a doctoral student in the Department of Comparative Human Development. She received her B.A. in Psychology and B.S. in Marketing from the University of Maryland-College Park in 2021. She completed an M.A. in Social Sciences (Psychology) from the University of Chicago in 2022, where she also worked as an Instructional Assistant before pursuing doctoral studies.

Research

Jenny is broadly interested in understanding how higher education, together with social and cultural contexts, can influence students’ life trajectories and outcomes. Specifically, she is interested in the phenomenon of double and triple majors, especially between liberal arts and STEM fields, and what such “selection” means for the individual and their envisioned possibilities. She is also interested in the international student population and in understanding how globalization and transnationality influence the pursuit and expansion (or lack thereof) of cosmopolitan identity and imagination among such groups of students.