Dori-Taylor Carter (she/her) is a Sociology PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley and BIMI's Research Program Coordinator. Dori-Taylor's research is centered on issues of identity classification, political representation, and panethnic social movements. More closely, Dori-Taylor focuses on the construction of identity categories and populations, the political representation of identity groups, and the mobilization of shared identities and experiences toward collective political power. Her current project examines how political action committees construct identity...
Charlotte Wang is a postdoctoral fellow in Sociology and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative between 2026 and 2029. She is a Spring 2026 PhD graduate from Columbia University's Department of Sociology. Charlotte studies becoming processes at the intersections of migration, racialization, culture, and place. Her current work explores the role of emotions in the persistence of ethnicity. In her PhD research, she uses life-history interviews and ethnographic methods to study the roots-seeking projects of second-plus-generation Chinese Americans,...
Broadly, my questions focus on the dynamics of recognition and belonging in contexts of protracted displacement. I am particularly interested in how the recognition of shared internal markers of selfhood—such as dreams, aspirations, and vulnerabilities—can emerge through relational encounters between individuals with distinct traditional identities. Such encounters, I suggest, hold the potential to cultivate forms of belonging that transcend conventional in-group boundaries. More specifically, my inquiry focuses on two relatively understudied phenomena: (1) relational forms of...
