Caroline Reilly

Caroline Reilly

Graduate Student

Email: cvreilly20@ucla.edu

Curriculum Vitae


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Biography

Caroline’s current research examines how racialization and cateogrization shift in response to societal instability. Her study uses comparative-historical methods to investigate how elites reestablish or maintain power through affecting the racialization, and consequently social mobility, of a strategic ethnoracial minority. Caroline also conducts research concerning women’s reproductive health and how various factors (race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, size, etc.) impact accessing quality gynecological and obstetric care. In addition to her personal research, Caroline collaborates on projects that analyze the role of Women CEOs in China regarding firm innovativeness and their impact on firm organization via critical representation.

Degrees

  • B.A. Anthropology & Sociology (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude) | Rhodes College, 2018
  • M.A. Sociology | University of Memphis, 2020
  • M.A. Sociology | University of California Los Angeles, 2022

Fields of Study

Comparative-Historical; Race & Ethnicity; Gender; Inequality; Distribution, Maintenance, and Protection of Power

Publications

  • Reilly, Caroline Virginia and Junmin Wang. 2022. “Critical Mass and Critical Representation: Economic Transition, Workplace Cultures, and Women CEOs in China.” Sociology of Development, 1-31. DOI: 10.1525/sod.2020.0045.
  • Wang, Junmin, Caroline Virginia Reilly, and Kaniz Fatema. 2022. “Gender Bias, Institutional Predicaments and Innovativeness of Female CEOs in China” Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. DOI: 10.1142/S1084946722500078.

Conference Presentations

  • August 2022. “Irish Social Mobility: Examining Elite Responses to Crises in the 17th-Century British Caribbean.” American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, CA. Caroline Reilly.
  • August 2022. “Critical Mass and Critical Representation: Women CEO’s Impact on Representation & Occupation Trajectory in China.” American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, CA. Caroline Reilly and Dr. Junmin Wang.
  • July 2022. “Critical Mass and Critical Representation: Economic Transition, Workplace Cultures, and Women CEOs in China.” Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Caroline Reilly and Dr. Junmin Wang.
  • August 2020. “Critical Mass and Women CEOs in China: The Moderating Effects of Firms Ownership and Industrial Sectors.” American Sociological Association, Virtual. Caroline Reilly and Dr. Junmin Wang.
  • November 2019. “Male Emotionality in NCAA Championship Basketball: 30 Plus Years of ‘One Shining Moment’.” The North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Dr. Gretchen Peterson, Caroline Reilly, and Michael Topping.
  • October 2019. “Race and Ethnicity’s Association with Accessing OBGYN Care.” Southern Demographic Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. Caroline Reilly.
  • August 2019. “The Strength of Female Leadership: Gender Discrimination, Network Penalties, and Firm Innovation in China.” American Sociological Association, New York City, New York. Dr. Junmin Wang, Caroline Reilly, Kaniz Fatema.
  • August 2019. “A Different Kind of Unconventional: A Literature Review of Families, Incarceration, and Serial Murder.” Sociologists for Women in Society, New York City, New York. Caroline Reilly.
  • June 2019. “The Strength of Female Leadership: Gender Discrimination, Network Penalties, and Firm Innovation in China.” Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, New York City, New York. Dr. Junmin Wang, Kaniz Fatema, Caroline Reilly.
  • June 2019. “Gender Discrimination, Network Penalties, and Firm Innovation in China.” Canadian Sociological Association / Société Canadienne de Sociologie, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. Dr. Junmin Wang, Kaniz Fatema, Caroline Reilly.
  • April 2019. “Creating Whiteness: The Processes of White Identity Formation on Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Montserrat.” Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia. Caroline Reilly.
  •  March 2019. “Agency and Whiteness in Irish’s Cultural, Racial, and Economic (Re)Designation in 17th-Century Caribbean.” University of Memphis: Graduate Student Research Forum, Memphis, Tennessee. Caroline Reilly.
  • April 2017. “Alice in Wonderland Otherlands.” Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. Caroline Reilly, sponsored by Dr. Susan Kus.

Advisors

  • Dr. Rebecca Emigh