Yung-Yi Diana Pan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College – City University of New York, and earned her PhD from University of California, Irvine. She has broad research interests in race and ethnicity, processes of racialization, immigrant adaptation, identity formation, professional socialization, and law and society. Her current research challenges traditional theories of immigrant integration by underscoring the significance of race and phenotype in elite professions. She is working on her first book, which examines the professional socialization and continued racialization of Asian American and Latino law students.