Yu Simin

Graduate Student

simingyu@ucsb.edu

About

Specialization:

Gender and sexualities, race, migration, social inequalities

Education:

B.A. Chengdu University of Technology

M.A. Beijing Foreign Studies University

Bio:

Siming Yu is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research areas include gender and sexualities, race, migration, and social inequalities. His current project focuses on how white gay men living in Asia navigate their sexual and racial identities in queer spaces. He is a reviewer for the journals of Men and Masculinities and Norma.

Publication:

Yu, Siming, Shujie Han, and Ting Zhu. 2025. “Elastic, Hybrid, or Both?: Constructing ‘New Man’ Masculinities in Contemporary China.” Journal of Gender Studies, 1–17. doi:10.1080/09589236.2025.2589285.