Sina Lee
Professor of Practice, Gender and Sexuality Studies
School of Liberal Arts
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
Biography
Dr. Sina Lee’s research and teaching engage decolonial, intersectional, and transnational feminist frameworks to explore gender, race, and power across global and hemispheric contexts. Her work examines how histories of colonialism, migration, and militarization shape contemporary family ideologies and practices of care across the Global North and Global South through power dynamics and structural imbalance.
In her courses such as Transnational Feminisms, Dr. Lee emphasizes Latin American, Asian, and African feminist thought, particularly the contributions of decolonial theorists who challenge Eurocentric paradigms of gender and knowledge production. She encourages students to connect feminist movements across the Global South, fostering comparative dialogues about environmental justice, reproductive justice, and postcolonial resistance.
Courses
Issues in Global Feminism, Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies, Transnational Feminisms, Hurricane Katrina & Women of Color, Critical Inquiry and Praxis
Research
Global South and Transnational Feminisms, Reproductive Justice and Transnational Adoption, Decolonial Feminist Methodologies
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Maryland- College Park, Women's Studies
- M.A., Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, Sociology
- B.A., Yonsei University, Political Science & International Studies, Sociology
Academic Experience
Academic Experience
- Professor of Practice, Tulane University, 2024-
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The College of Wooster, 2022-2024
Distinctions
- Monroe Fellowship, 2026
- Professor of Practice Professional Development Fund, Tulane University, 2024-2025
- Newcomb Institute Research Grant, Tulane University, 2024
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, 2023-2024
- Korean Studies Grant, Academy of Korean Studies (AKS), 2023
- Asia and Migration Research Grant, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), 2022
- The Walter D. Foss Endowed Professorship, The College of Wooster, 2022.
- Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, University of Maryland- College Park, 2019
Selected Publications
- Lee, S. (2025). From personal to collective: Asian American counter-narratives in the COVID-19 era. Narrative Culture, 12(1).
- Lee, S. (2025). Telling the Truth, Seeking Justice: Feminist Pedagogy and the Comfort Women Legacy. Feminist Pedagogy, 5(5), Article 7.
- Lee, S. (2023). Ain’t I a mother?: The forgotten narratives of Korean transnational adoptees’ birth mothers. Asian Qualitative Inquiry Journal, 2(2).
- Lee, S. (2025). Korean studies in qualitative research [한국학 질적 연구]. In Y. Kim & J. Chung (Eds.), Post-Orientalism and the Qualitative Research Methodologies in Korea, 1980–2030. Seoul: Academy Press. (In Korean)
- Lee, S. (2026). Feminist writing in qualitative research [여성주의 질적 연구의 글쓰기 정치학: 감정, 위치성, 그리고 함께 쓰기]. In Y. Kim (Ed.), Writing as Method: Qualitative Research and Various Writing Strategies. Seoul: Academy Press. (In Korean)
- Lee, S. (2024). Leaving ‘home’ in search of ‘homeland’: Untold narratives of transnational Korean adoptees. In M. W. Han, E.-J. Han, & J. Lee (Eds.), Displacement, Mobility, and Diversity in Korea: Diaspora within Homeland. Routledge.
