Justin Lee

TA and TAA Stewards’ Committee Co-chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

About

I'm a PhD student and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My interests focus on sociology of knowledge, organizations, social networks, elite power, and emerging technologies. I am currently working on a thesis on think tanks and corporate networks in India and developing a dissertation focused on a critique of Bourdieu’s notion of cultural capital and fields through the study of knowledge organizations in the policy process.

Experience

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • RAND (5 yrs 1 mo)
    • Summer Research Associate
      Jun 2025 - Sep 2025 · 4 mos

    • Adjunct Sociology Researcher
      Sep 2023 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos

    • Assistant Policy Researcher
      Sep 2020 - Sep 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      ● Contributed to a project evaluating the potential implications for US Army fielding of mobile nuclear power plants. ● Analyzed technological and political geography for Army strategy and operations in the Arctic. ● Assisted in evaluating supply chains and economies for rare earth and battery minerals for the Department of Defense.

  • Teaching Assistant at La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison
    Sep 2023 - Jan 2024 · 5 mos

  • Graduate Research Fellow: Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Nov 2021 - Mar 2022 · 5 mos

    ● Conducted independent research on think tanks, elite networks, and business power in India and policy implications for the United States. ● Produced a proposal based on my research results which has been accepted to a panel at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.

  • Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (Full-time · 1 yr 3 mos)
    • Operations Research Analyst
      Oct 2019 - Aug 2020 · 11 mos

    • Analyst - Net Technical Assessment
      Jun 2019 - Sep 2019 · 4 mos