CURRICULUM VITAE - UCLA Department of Anthropology



CURRICULUM VITAE

KYEYOUNG PARK, Ph.D.

(2021)

Professor; Department of Anthropology and Asian American Studies,

University of California, Los Angeles

Department of Anthropology

341 Haines Hall, Box 951553

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553

(310) 206-3363; 825-2055

fax: (310) 206-7833

e-mail: kpark@anthro.ucla.edu

ACADEMIC HISTORY

2020 Full Professor, Department of Anthropology and

Asian American Studies, UCLA

2000-2020 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and

Asian American Studies, UCLA

1992-2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and

Asian American Studies UCLA

1999. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology,

Princeton University

1997-1998 Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation

1990-1992 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology,

UCLA

1990. Research Anthropologist, Asian/American Center,

Queens College, CUNY

1990 Ph.D. Anthropology, City University of New York, Graduate

School and University Center

1982 M.A. Anthropology, Seoul National University (Korea)

1979 B.A. Biology Education & Anthropology,

Seoul National University (Korea)

AWARDS AND HONORS

16-19 The Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Education and Korean Studies

Promotion Service of the academy of Korean Studies, Research Grant:

How Do Second Generation Korean Americans Traverse a

Transnational World?

16-17 UHI (Urban Humanities Institute), UCLA, Faculty Research Seminar

(Invitee)

12-14 Korea Foundation, Center for Korean Studies (CKS), UCLA;

E-School (Korean Studies) Courses for Latin America

06-11 The Academy of Korean Studies, Support for Korean Studies in Latin

America and Strengthening Korean Studies at UCLA (Institutional Grant;

Deputy Program Chair)

09-10 The International Institute at UCLA, “Korean Routes of Migration in the

Americas" America (PI)

08-09 The Overseas Korea Foundation, Translation Grant for the Korean

American Dream; Immigrants and Small Business in New York City;

AAP (Academic Advancement Program) Faculty Recognition Award,

UCLA

05-06 The Academy of Korean Studies, Research Grant (Investigator):

Korean American Encounters with Other Ethno-Racial Groups in the

U.S.; The Korean American Economic Development Center, (Community)

Research Grant

01-02 Institute of American Cultures and ISOP Faculty Research Award, UCLA:

“Manufacturing Textile, Producing Differentiation: A South American

Case of Korean Immigrant Textile Industry.”

00-02 Ford Foundation, Service-Learning Affinity Groups, UCLA (participating

faculty)

1998 Outstanding Book Award (Association for Asian American Studies) for

book, Korean American Dream

97-98 Visiting Scholar Award, Russell Sage Foundation

2-Years Post-Doctoral Fellowship at New York University (Declined).

96-97 Center for Pacific Rim Studies, University of California, Research

Planning Meeting for North Korea Project (Collaborator);

Institute of American Cultures, UCLA, “The Making of Race, Ethnicity,

and Culture: 1992 Los Angeles Crisis and Korean, African, and Latin

Americans.”

93-97 Academic Senate Grant, UCLA, “The Making of Race, Ethnicity, and

Culture: 1992 Los Angeles Crisis and Korean, African, and Latin

Americans.”

96. Center for Pacific Rim Studies, University of California, “Immigration

Experience and Quality of Life: A Cross-National Study of Japanese and

Koreans (in Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, and Seoul).” (Collaborator)

94-95 Faculty Career Development Award, UCLA;

Institute of American Cultures, UCLA, “The Korean American Dream:

Discourses on Small Business Activities, Identities, and Cultures in

Queens, New York.”

96. National Institute of Health: Department of Health and Human Services;

Public Health Service, “Ethnicity and Attitudes toward Advance Care

Directives.” (Investigator)

93. Division of Graduate School, UCLA, “Ethnicity and Socio-Political

Participation in Los Angeles.” (Co-Principal Investigator)

93. Center for Pacific Rim Studies, University of California, “Emergence of

Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Asian Immigrants in Los Angeles County:

Medical and Cultural Factors.” (Collaborator)

1990 Service Award, Korean American Association of Flushing

1986 Korean American Scholarship

84-85 PSC CUNY, Ford Foundation, and National Science Foundation

Research Assistantship

82-84 University Fellowship, City University of New York

79-81 University Fellowship, Seoul National University

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Special Issues of Journals

In preparation, From Enmity to Empathy: African American and Korean American Communities Since the 1992 Los Angeles Riots

2020 Cross the Pacific: The Lives of Korean Americans and

their Socio-Political Engagement in the Global Age

(태평양을 넘어서: 글로벌시대 재미한인의 삶과 활동).

(with Yoo, Chul-In, Kyung Koo Han, Eun-Ju Chung, Jae-Hyup Lee,

Jung-Sun Park, Hyun Hee Kim, and Jeong Duk Yi). Hakgobang.

2019 LA RISING: KOREAN RELATIONS WITH BLACKS AND LATINOS

AFTER LATINOS AFTER CIVIL UNREST. Lexington Books (imprint of

the Rowman & Littlefield Pub.)

2014 Emigration and Immigration: The Case of Korea.

Special Issue of URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY 43 (4) (Ed).

2009 KOREAN AMERICAN ECONOMY AND COMMUNITY IN THE 21ST

CENTURY. Co-edited with Eui-Young Yu, Hyojoung Kim, & Moonsong

Oh). Los Angeles: Korean American Economic Development Center.

2008 How Do AsianAmericans Create Places? Los Angeles and Beyond.

Special Issue of AMERASIA JOURNAL (Ed).

2008 KOREAN AMERICANS ETHNIC RELATIONSHIP IN MULTIETHNIC LOS

ANGELES (with Young-Kyun Yang, Okpyo Moon, Jeongduk Yi, and Su-

hong Chae); in Korean). The Academy of Korean Studies.

1999 Second Generation Asian Americans’ Ethnic Identity. Special Issue of

AMERASIA JOURNAL. Co-edited with Pyong Gap Min.

1997 THE KOREAN AMERICAN DREAM: IMMIGRANTS AND SMALL

BUSINESS IN NEW YORK CITY. Ithaca and London: Cornell University

Press.

Articles and Chapters

In preparation Considering Transnationalism: A New Theoretical Framework to

Study the Children of Korean Immigrants

2020 정체성 포용하기: 사회운동이 불러온 뜻밖의 결과 (Embracing Identity: The

Unintended Consequences of Social Movement Activity), in 태평양을

넘어서: 글로벌시대 재미한인의 삶과 활동 (Cross the Pacific: The Lives

and Korean Americans and their Socio-Political Engagement in the Global

Age), (with Yoo, Chul-In, Kyung Koo Han, Eun-Ju Chung, Jae-Hyup Lee,

Jung-Sun Park, Hyun Hee Kim, and Jeong Duk Yi), 235-288. Hakgobang.

친구 T 와의 이별 (Farewell To My Best Friend). In A CELEBRATION OF

KYUNGGI ART AND LITERATURE, 10. (수필 가작 당선 Honorable

Mention) Kyunggi Girls’ High School Alumni Association of Southern

California. (In Korean)

(Review of) Korean American Families in Immigrant America: How Teens

and Parents Navigate Race. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST.

2018 From Vendedor to Fashion Designer: Korean Immigrants in South

American Textile Industries. ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin

America David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies LATIN

AMERICA AND ASIA (FALL 2018): 27-29.



De vendedores a diseñadores de moda; Inmigrantes coreanos en la

industria de textiles sudamericanas. ReVista (FALL) ESPAÑOL



(TRANSLATION INTO SPANISH)

2017 사랑하는 남동생을 보내며 (In Memory of My Brother). In Commemoration

of Prof. Ickwhan Park. KHU (Kyunghee University) GLOBAL

BUSINESS LAW REVIEW 10 (2): 19-20. (In Korean)

사랑하는 남동생을 보내며 (In Memory of My Brother). KOREATIMES:

Opinion. November 25. (In Korean)

2016 Analysis of Latino-Korean Relations in the Workplace: Latino Perspectives

in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest. In

ANTHROPOLOGY OF LOS ANGELES: CITY, IMAGE, AND POLITICS.

Jenny Banh and Melissa King, Editors. Lexington Books (an imprint of

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers).

2014 A Rhizomatic Diaspora: Transnational Passage and the Sense of Place

among Koreans in Latin America. URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY

43 (4): 481-517.

Introduction: Emigration and Immigration: The Case of Korea. URBAN

ANTHROPOLOGY 43 (4): 311-327.

Transnational Migrant Workers and the Politics of Culture: Conceptual

Discussion. CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY AND MULTICULTURE 4 (2):

90-121.

Professor Lee Kwang-Kyu. Special Issue Dedicated to the First

Anniversary of Late Prof. Lee Kwang-kyu. STUDIES OF KOREANS

ABROAD 34:19-26 (in English) & 27-33 (TRANSLATION INTO KOREAN).

The “Foxes” Outfoxed: Contentions between Koreans and Jews in South

American Textile Industries. DIALECTICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

38 (1): 17-39.

2013 (Review of) Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the

Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World.

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST V 40 (1): 227-228.

2012 Analysis of Latino-Korean Relations in the Workplace: Latino Perspectives

in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest. AMERASIA

JOURNAL 38 (1): 143-169.

2011 (Review of) The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the

Problems of Segregation. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 113 (4):

663-664.

(Review of) The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the

Problems of Segregation. (with Cheong R. Huh). Durham, NC: Duke

University Press. TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD, Date Published:

August 30, 2011

ID Number: 16524,

Date Accessed: 8/31/2011 4:44:49 PM

2010 Sources and Resources of Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship.

CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY 36 (6) November: 891-896.

2009 Introduction (Co-written with Hyojoung Kim, Moonsong Oh, & Eui-Young

Yu). In KOREAN AMERICAN ECONOMY AND COMMUNITY IN THE

21ST CENTURY. Co-edited with Eui-Young Yu, Hyojoung Kim, &

Moonsong Oh, 1-28. Los Angeles: Korean American Economic

Development Center.

9. Challenging the Liquor Industry in Los Angeles. In KOREAN

AMERICAN ECONOMY AND COMMUNITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY,

Co-edited with Eui-Young Yu, Hyojoung Kim, & Moonsong Oh, 1-28. Los

Angeles: Korean American Economic Development Center.

A Rhizomatic Diaspora: Transnational Passage and the Sense of Place

among Koreans in Latin America. Research Project I (2007-2009) for the

Korean Studies in the Americas; UCLA Center for Korean Studies (Online)

2008 Use and Abuse of History: Competing Korean Migration Histories in South

American Countries. Presented at Korean Immigration in Latin America

Conference, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad de

Chile (Online)

Introduction: How do Asian Americans Create Places? (with Russell

Leong) AMERASIA JOURNAL 34(3): vii-xiv.

The Contested Nexus of Los Angeles Koreatown: Capital Restructuring,

Gentrification, and Displacement (with Jessica Kim). AMERASIA

JOURNAL 34 (3): 127-150.

Nice swing –but can you spell it? UCLA TODAY ONLINE:



Where Do We Go From Here? The Virginia Tech Shootings and the

Korean American Community. JOURNAL OF KOREAN LANGUAGE

EDUCATION 20: 89-120.

Introduction: Korean American Studies and the Los Angeles Korean

American Community. In KOREAN AMERICANS ETHNIC

RELATIONSHIP IN MULTIETHNIC LOS ANGELES (with Jeongduk Yi; in

Korean), 11-43. The Academy of Korean Studies.

Foundations of Violence: Korean Vendors and Powerless Customers in

South Central Los Angeles. In KOREAN AMERICANS ETHNIC

RELATIONSHIP IN MULTIETHNIC LOS ANGELES (in Korean), 221-267.

The Academy of Korean Studies.

2007 Forgive and Remember (Co-Written). LOS ANGELES TIMES: Opinion

(M6). April 29.

(Review of) Displacement and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas.

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 109 (1): 202.

2005 (Review of) Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban

America. INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW 39 (1): 274-276.

Korean Americans. In MULTICULTURALISM IN THE UNITED

STATES, 281-297. Lorman A. Ratner and John D. Buenker, editors.

Greenwood Press.

Koreans in the United States. In ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DIASPORA,

993-1003. Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard, editors.

New York: Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University.

2004 (Review of) A Korean American Century: Photographs Celebrating the

Centennials of Korean Immigration to the United States, 1903-2003.

MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY 26 (2): 81-83.

Challenging the Liquor Industry in Los Angeles. INTERNATIONAL

JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY 24 (7/8): 103-136.

“I Really Do Feel I’m 1.5!”: The Construction of Self and Community by

Young Korean Americans.” In LIFE IN AMERICA: IDENTITY AND

EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE, 123-136. Lee D. Baker, editor. Blackwell

Publishing.

2003 “I Really Do Feel I’m 1.5!”: The Construction of Self and Community by

Young Korean Americans.” In INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR

(KOREAN SCHOOL) TEACHERS, 47-71. Korean Education Center in LA. 2002 North Korea Go Nuclear! KOREAM JOURNAL (December): 74.

Korea’s Policy towards the Ethnic Koreans Abroad and Inter-Relations

Among Them (Comments). THE 3RD OVERSEAS KOREAN FORUM:

THE KOREA, KOREAN REUNIFICATION UNDER NEW WORLD

ORDER, 201- 205. Los Angeles: Korean Global Foundation.

(Review of) Virtuous Transcendence: Holistic Self-Cultivation and Self-

Healing in Elderly Korean Immigrants. INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

REVIEW 36 (2): 608-610.

10,000 Senora Lees: The Changing Gender Ideology in the Korean

Diaspora as Reflected in the Clothing Industry. AMERASIA JOURNAL 28

(2): 161-180.

2001 (Review of) Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin. JOURNAL

OF JAPANESE STUDIES 27 (2): 469-473.

(Review of) The Ilse: First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawai’i, 1903-

1973. JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AMERICAN HISTORY 20 (3): 174-175.

2000 (Review of) Korean Immigrants and the Challenge of Adjustment,

ASIAN AND PACIFIC MIGRATION JOURNAL 9(2): 233-235.

Sudden and Subtle Challenge: Disparity in Conception of Marriage and

Gender in the Korean American Community. In CULTURAL COMPASS:

ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS OF ASIAN AMERICA, 159-74

Martin Manalansan, editor. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

The Unspeakable Experiences of Korean Women under Japanese Rule.

WHITTIER LAW REVIEW 21(3): 567-619.

1999 “I’m Floating in the Air”: Creation of a Korean Transnational Space among

Korean-Latino-American Re-Migrants.” POSITIONS: EAST ASIA

CULTURES CRITIQUE 7(3): 667-695.

“I Really Do Feel I’m 1.5!”: The Construction of Self and Community by

Young Korean Americans.” AMERASIA JOURNAL 25(1): 139-64.

Second Generation Asian Americans’ Ethnic Identity. AMERASIA

JOURNAL 25(1): ix-xiii.

Use and Abuse of Race and Culture: Black-Korean Tension in America.

In KOREANS IN THE HOOD: CONFLICT WITH AFRICAN AMERICANS,

60-74. Kwang Chung Kim, editor. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University

Press.

1998 Attitudes toward Patient Autonomy among Elderly Korean-Americans,

(With G. Frank, L. Blackhall, S. Murphy, and V. Michel).

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY 12(4): 403-423.

The Re-Invention of Affirmative Action: Korean Immigrants’ Changing

Conceptions of African and Latin Americans. In MANY AMERICAS:

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON RACE, RACISM AND ETHNICITY,

247-62. Gregory Campbell, editor. Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing

Company.

(Review of) Caught in the Middle: Korean Communities in New York and

Los Angeles. KOREAN STUDIES 22: 132-135.

The Rise of Sisters in Korean America: The Shift to Women- Centered

Kin Organization (in Korean). In KOREAN ANTHROPOLOGY:

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROSPECTS, 415-443. The Editorial Committee.

Seoul, Korea: Gipmundang

1997 Multicultural Friendship Tour to Korea. ANTHROPOLOGY

NEWSLETTER American Anthropological Association (October), 23.

1996 Use and Abuse of Race and Culture: Black/Korean Tension in America.

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 98 (3): 3-11.

(Review of) Blue Dream: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots.

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 98 (2): 24-25.

The Morality of a Commodity: A Case Study of ‘Rebuilding L.A. without

Liquor Stores. AMERASIA JOURNAL 21:1-27.

1995 The Re-Invention of Affirmative Action: Korean Immigrants’ Changing

Conceptions of African and Latin Americans. URBAN

ANTHROPOLOGY 24: 59-92.

Black/Korean Tension: Triangulating Class at the Crossroads of Race and

Ethnicity. In KOREA AND THE WORLD: STRATEGIES FOR

GLOBALIZATION, 3-23. Eui Hang Shin & Yan Kim, editors. Columbia,

SC: Center for Asian studies at the University of South Carolina.

1994 The Korean-Black Conflict and the State. In THE NEW ASIAN

IMMIGRANTS IN LOS ANGELES AND GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING,

264-94. P. Ong, E. Bonacich, and L. Cheng, editors. Philadelphia:

Temple University Press.

The End of an Ideology: Korean Americans Analyzing April 29th.

PEACE RESEARCH 2: 65-100. Artesia, CA: The Pacific Institute for

Peacemaking.

1993 Contesting Gender Roles: Declaring War in the Korean American

Community. PEACE RESEARCH 1: 123-140. Artesia, CA: The Pacific

Institute for Peacemaking.

The Placing of Korean Culture in Multi-Ethnic America.

In SEKYESOKYUI HANMINCHOK, (KOREAN ETHNICS IN THE

WORLD), 181-211. Seoul, Korea: The Academy of Korean Studies.

Public Ethnographer: In Pursuit of Intercessory Ethnography.

ANTHROPOLOGY UCLA 20: 1-26.

1991 Conception of Ethnicities by Koreans: The Workplace Encounters. In

ASIAN AMERICANS: COMPARATIVE AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES,

S. Hune et al, editors, 179-90. Pullman, Washington: Washington State

University.

1990 Conception of Ethnicities by Koreans: The Workplace Encounters.

KOREA OBSERVER XXI (1): 13-30.

(Review of) Juvenile Delinquency in the Korean Community of Los

Angeles. AMERASIA JOURNAL 15 (2).

(Review of) Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-

1982. THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES 49 (1).

1989 Born Again: What Does It Mean to Korean-Americans in New York City?

OURNAL OF RITUAL STUDIES 3 (2): 289-303.

Impact of New Productive Activities on the Organization of Domestic

Life: A Case Study of the Korean American Community. In FRONTIERS

OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES, 140-50. Gail M. Nomura et al., editors.

Pullman: Washington State University.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

-Conference Organizer, Korean American Community Organizing in the age of Trump (17-18)

- Editorial Board, Contemporary Society and Multiculture, Daegu, Korea (14-present)

-Guest Editor, Special Issue: Emigration and Immigration: The Case of Korea. Urban Anthropology (13-14)

-Affiliated Scholar, The Center for New Racial Studies: A University of California Multi-Campus Research Program (11-present)

-Editorial Board,"한국사회과학,” (Korean Social Science Journal), Social Scientific Studies, Seoul, Korea (10-present)

-Advisory Board, The Center for Multicultural and Transcultural Studies, Chonbuk University, Korea (08-presnt)

-Advisory Board, The UC Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Multi-Campus Research Program (UC Policy MRP) (07-present)

-Research Associates, The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS), University of California, San Diego (02-present)

-International Editorial Board, New World Diasporas series, University Press of Florida (00-present)

-Program Committee, the National Korean American Studies Conference (11-12)

-Deputy Program Chair, Korean Studies in Latin America, the Academy of Korean Studies (Korea) and Center for Korean Studies, UCLA (06-11)

-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Ethno-Hubs. Amerasia Journal (08)

-Project Advisory Board, Understanding Race and Human Variation, American Anthropological Association (02-07); Traveling museum exhibit, “Race: Are We So Different?”

-Executive Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (07)

-Planning Committee, Korean Studies in the Americas (07), UCLA

-Chair, Planning Committee for the National Korean American Studies Conference (07)

-Program Committee, the first National Korean American Economic Conference (05-06)

-Chair, Planning Committee for the National Korean American Studies Conference (01-02)

-Chair, Social Science Book Award Committee, Association for Asian American Studies (01-02)

-Program Committee for the Association of Asian American Studies (01)

-Review Panelist, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (01-03)

-Reviewer, Social Science Research Council, Minority Summer Dissertation

Workshop (00)

-Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Second Generation Asian Americans.

Amerasia Journal (1999)

-Book Review Editor, Amerasia Journal (the only national scholarly journal concerning Asians in America) (92-97)

-Planning Committee for the National Korean American Studies Conference (97-98)

-Nominations Committee for the Association of Asian American Studies (93-95)

Professional Affiliations:

American Anthropological Association Association for Asian American Studies

Society for the Anthropology of North America

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Anthropology:

Transnational Lives (Anthropology of Migration and Mobility); Race and Racism; Anthropology of Los Angeles; Urban Anthropology; Anthropology Theory & Practice (Contemporary Perspectives); Study of Culture; Symbolic Systems; Theories of Culture; Representation and Political Economy; Class, Power, and Conflict; Ethnology of Korea

Asian American Studies:

Critical and Multicultural Theories; Critical Issues in Asian American Studies Research; Critical Issues in Asian American Communities; Introduction to Asian American Studies: Contemporary Issues; Race and Racism; Theorizing Diasporas; Asian Americans: Personality and Identity; Korean American Experience

Korean Studies (online)

Korean Religion; Korean Diaspora

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Inequality (e.g., race, class, and gender) and Social Justice, Identity, Migration/Diaspora, Transnational and Global Processes, Critical and Multicultural Theory

Geographical Focus

Korean/Asian American Community, Korean/Asian Diaspora, Koreans/Asians in Latin America, and Korea/East Asia

FIELD RESEARCH

-2016-19: Los Angeles

-September 2018: Buenos Aires, Argentina

-August 2018: Asunción, Paraguay

-December 2014: São Paulo, Brazil

-December 2013: Buenos Aires, Argentina

-August 2009: Buenos Aires, Argentina

-Summer 2008: Buenos Aires, Argentina, São Paulo, Brazil, and Santiago, Chile

-November 2006: Buenos Aires, Argentina, São Paulo, Brazil, and Santiago, Chile

-Summer 2001: Buenos Aires, Argentina and São Paulo, Brazil

-1991-97 and 2002: South LA, Los Angeles

-Summer 1995: Los Angeles

-1984-85: Field research for dissertation, Queens, New York

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

2020

-Guest Lecture to UCLA's Asian American Studies Graduate Seminar, November 24, 4-5: LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest:

or



-Book Talk, UCLA, Department of Anthropology, co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Center and the Department of Asian American Studies, from 12:15 - 1:45 PM, November 19

-Panelist for the 28th Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities, George Washington University, November 6, 2020: “From Enmity to Empathy: African American and Korean American Communities since the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.”

2018

-Panelist, Passages to Korea: Children of Immigrants Experiencing Transnational Infrastructure. American Anthropological Association, San Jose, November 16.

-Panelist, From Identity-Based to Ideology-Based Organizing:

The Impact of Shifting Geopolitics on Second Generation Korean American Activism; Conference Organizer, Welcoming Remarks; Opening Remarks. Korean American Community Organizing in the age of Trump, Conference organized by Professor Kyeyoung Park, UCLA, November 9.

-Panelist, Class Roots of Ethnic Tension: Some Reflections on Black-Korean Tension. 2018 AAAS (Association for Asian American Studies) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 21.

2017

-Panelist, Passages to Korea: Children of Immigrants Experiencing Transnational Infrastructure. Conference organized by Asia-Pacific Law Institute, Seoul national University and AEAS (Academy of East Asian Studies), Sungkyunkwan University, November 24.

-Speaker, Learning From Los Angeles: The Racial Cartography of Blacks, Latinos, and Koreans. Workshop organized by UHI (Urban Humanities Institute), May 3.

-Panelist, Reflecting on the 1992 LA Riots, The Embrace Unity Symposium & Gala, Organized by UCI (University of California, Irvine) Korea Law Center, April 27.

-Panelist, The Problem of Police Violence: Missing Link in Black-Korean Tension and the Los Angeles Civil Unrest. Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Meeting, Portland, April 13, 2017.

-Panelist, Second-Generation Transnationalism. Seminar organized by the international research consortium, Diversity, Agency and Transnationality of the New Generation Korean Americans. SNU (Seoul National University), March 21.

2016

-Panelist, Analysis of Latino-Korean Relations in the Workplace: Latino Perspectives in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest. Session on Anthropology of Los Angeles: City, Image, and Politics. American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, November 18

-Panelist, Session 1: Korean Studies Center & Korean American Studies Center;

Panelist, Session 3: Sharing of results of both studies, Korean and Korean American Studies: Bridging the Divide, Workshop organized by Korea Foundation Los Angeles Office, Oxford Palace Hotel Galleria Hall, Los Angeles, October 7

2015

-Lecturer, LA Koreatown, Global Experiential Learning and Voluntary Program, College of Liberal Studies, Seoul National University, Organized by Koreatown Youth and Community Center, UCLA, August 13

2014

-Discussants: V. Immigrants, Networks, and Ethnicity; Panelist: Roundtable on Work-Life Balance, Rising stars VI: Korean Studies Faculty Mentoring Conference, organized by USC Korean Studies Institute, Co-sponsored with UCLA Center for Korean Studies, October 10-11

-Lecturer, Transnational Migrant Workers and the Politics of Culture: Conceptual Discussion, 해외석학 초빙 강연회 (Invited Master Class), organized by Daegu University-Department of Social Welfare, Korea, September 18

-Lecturer, the Korean American Experience, Hana-Stanford Conference on

Korea for U.S. Secondary School Teachers. Stanford University, July 30

2013

-Presenter, Undergraduate Awards, Annual Awards & Alumni Reception, organized by Asian American Studies Center, UCLA, September 27

-Guest Lecture, Education 222B: Participant Observation Field Methods, UCLA, March 4

2012

-Moderator, Session II: Transformations: Where is our Community Today? Hope out of Crisis: Lessons from Sa-I-Gu, Los Angeles, April 28

-Panelist, Revisiting the Los Angeles Riots/Civil Uprising: Sa-I-Gu Twenty Years Later, Association for Asian American Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, April 11-14

-Guest Lecturer, Education 222B: Participant Observation Field Methods, UCLA, February 6

2011

-Guest Lecturer, Sociology 235: Theories of Ethnicity, UCLA, October 26

-Discussant, Tok Do/Takeshima in Context: Historical Legacy, Bilateral Issues, and Regional Territorial Dispute (by Martin Perez), Joint Research Project II: Korean Studies in Latin America, UCLA Center for Korean Studies, May 7

-Discussant, Globalization of the National and the Nationalization of the Global: How the Korean Wave Connects Korea and East Asia (by Wonjung Min), Joint Research Project II: Korean Studies in Latin America, UCLA Center for Korean Studies, May 7

-Discussant, the Immigrant Metropolis, Race, Nation, Identity, 1st Annual Conference, UC Center for New Racial Studies: A Multi-Campus Research Program, UCLA Faculty Center, April 22

-Organizer and Moderator, Book Talk and Signing, Mothers without Citizenship, Lynn Fujiwara, UCLA Asian American Studies Department, February 24

-Discussant, Gender Trouble in the Workforce, Thinking Gender: 21st Annual Graduate Student Research Conference, UCLA Faculty Center, February 11

2010

-Organizer (and introduced a speaker), Book Talk and Signing, Preserving Ethnicity through Religion in America, Prof. Pyong Gap Min, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, November 30

-Panelist, the “Foxes” Outfoxed: Contentions between Koreans and Jews in South American Textile Industry, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 19

-Lecturer, the 10th Korean American Experience for Law Enforcement, GCS Los Angeles Club, Korean Cultural Center, November 10

-Panelist, Expatriates Go Transnational in the Era of South Korean Globalization (with Jeongduk Yi), First International Conference on Korean Diasporic and Immigrant Communities’ Transnational Ties to the Homeland, the Research Center for Korean Community, Queens College, October 8

-Panelist, the Future of Race Relations: Racial Cartography and Brazilianization Thesis, Association for Asian American Studies, Austin, April 8

-Panelist, A Rhizomatic Diaspora: Transnational Passage and the Sense of Place among Koreans in Latin America, University of California International Migration Conference, the Center for comparative Immigration Studies at UC San Diego, March 12

2009

-Discussant, Racing the Field: Culture, Racism, and Anthropologists of Color, American Anthropological Association, December 3

-Panelist, Expatriates Go Transnational in the Era of South Korean Globalization

(with Jeongduk Yi). Humanity, Development and Cultural Diversity, the 16th IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences) World Congress, Kunming, China, July 30

-Conference Organizer; Welcoming Remarks; Panelist, A Rhizomatic Diaspora, Encuentro Internacional Desplazamientos/Emplazamientos: Corea, America Latina y mas allá, Universidad de Buenos Aires Estudios Corea Argentina, July 14

2008

-Speaker, My Cultural Anthropology, Dept. of Archaeology & Anthropology, Chonbuk National University, Chonju, South Korea, November 18

-Panelist, the Contested Nexus of Los Angeles Koreatown: Capital Restructuring,

Gentrification, and Displacement (with Jessica Kim). Culture and Anthropology in the Age of Super-Competition, organized by the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology, Seoul National University, South Korea, November 15

-Panelist, Plenary Session 3, the Korean Anthropologists and the Anthropologists of the Korean Diaspora in the Age of Globalization. Culture and Anthropology in the Age of Super-Competition, organized by the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology, Seoul National University, South Korea, November 15

-Speaker, Foundations of Violence: Korean Vendors and Powerless Customers in South Central Los Angeles. Colloquium, the Institute of Cultural Studies, Seoul National University, South Korea, November 12

-Speaker, Korean American History and Experience, Seminar on Korean History

and Culture and the Korean American Experience, organized by Korean

Academy for Educators, La Canada High School, Los Angeles, October 29

-Panelist, Use and Abuse of History: Competing Korean Migration Histories in

South American Countries. Symposium, organized by Asia-Pacific Center,

Institute of International Studies, University of Chile, August 20

-Speaker, Korean American Family. Seminar on Korean History and Culture

And the Korean American Experience, organized by Korean Academy for

Educators, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, July 11

-Moderator, Bosom Friend or Joint Manager: A Relationship between a

Husband and a Wife in the 17th Century Korean Fictions (By Jong Cheol

Kim), Korea Colloquium Series, Center for Korean Studies, UCLA, May

5

-Lecturer, I. Korean Immigration History; II. Black-Korean Tension and the 1992

Los Angeles Civil Unrest, Seminar on Korean History and Culture and

the Korean American Experience, organized by Korean Academy for Educators,

Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, April 26

-Guest Speaker, Education 92F, Section 1A (Instructor: Kevin Escuedero) UCLA, February 13

2007

-Co-Panelist (together with Jeongduk Yi), Managing Diversity: “Hidden

Mosaic” in Ethnic Enclave, American Anthropological Association,

Washington D.C., November 29

-Lecturer, I. Korean Immigration History; II. Black-Korean Tension and the

1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, Korean American History and the Korean

American Experience/Workshop, organized by Korean Academy for Educators,

Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, November 3

-Panelist, Where Do We Go From Here? The Virginia Tech Shootings and the

Korean American Community, the 9th International Conference for Korean

Language Education as a Foreign Language: Korean Studies and Korean

Language Education, Korean Language Education Research Institute, Seoul

National University, Korea, October 27

-Panelist, Final Plenary Session: Korean Studies and Korean Language

Education, the 9th International Conference for Korean Language Education

as a Foreign Language Korean Studies and Korean Language Education,

Korean Language Education Research Institute, Seoul National University,

Korea, October 27

-Panelist, How to Strengthen Intergenerational Ties and Ties with the

Homeland, the 1st Conference on the Korean American Community:

Community, Ethnic Identity, and Linkages to Homeland, organized by Korean

American Voters’ Council, Flushing, New York, October 20

-Presenter, Centennial Rituals: Transforming Korean Americans into More

Americans, the 1st Conference on the Korean American Community:

Community, Ethnic Identity, and Linkages to Homeland, organized by Korean

American Voters’ Council, Flushing, New York 19

-Presider, Session VI: Religion, Immigrant Enclaves, and Ethnic Identity,

The 1st Conference on the Korean American Community: Community,

Ethnic Identity, and Linkages to Homeland, organized by Korean

American Voters’ Council, Flushing, New York, October 20

-Panelist, the Unspeakable Experience of Korean Women under Japanese Rule.

World Conference on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery: Honoring the Bravery

and the Struggles of Survivors, UCLA Law School, October 4-7

-Speaker, Korean Studies in the Americas: Recommendations, Korean Studies

in the Americas, Center for Korean Studies, UCLA, July 17

-Moderator, Social Science II, Korean Studies in the Americas, Center for

Korean Studies, UCLA, July 16

-Panelist, Social Science II, Korean Studies in the Americas, Center for Korean

Studies, UCLA, July 16

-Conference Organizer, The Rise of Korean American Studies: 15 years after the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, June 9

-Moderator, Session II: Social Sciences, The Rise of Korean American Studies: 15 years after the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, June 9

-Discussant, Plenary Session: Korean American Studies Programs and Activities, the Rise of Korean American Studies: 15 years after the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, June 9

-Speaker, Welcoming Remarks, the Rise of Korean American Studies: 15 Years

after the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, June 9 -Discussant, Role of L.A. Korean American Community for Democracy and

Peace-Building in Korea, LA International Symposium: Democracy and

Peace-Building in Korea & the Choice of 2007; In Commemoration of the 20th

Anniversary of the 1987 June Democratic Struggle, UCLA Center for Korean Studies and Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation in the U.S.A., Los Angeles, May 12

-Lecturer, I. Korean Immigration History; II. Black-Korean Tension and the

1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, Korean American History and the Korean

American Experience/Workshop, organized by Korean academy for Educators,

Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, April 26

-Panelist, Re-reading the L.A. Uprisings through Post-Riot Films, To Read and

Buy in L.A.: The City of Angels as Discursive Site, Association for Asian

American Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, April 4-7

-Commentator, Voices of Zainichi Koreans: Creating a Space: Gaining Visibility,

by Kyung Hee Ha, The Aratani Endowed Chair’s Speakers’ Series, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA, February 22

-Guest Speaker, Diaspora Affiliations (Instructor: Hijoo Son), Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA, February 13

2006

-Panelist, Korean American Encounters with Other Ethno-Racial Groups in the U.S., the Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul, Korea, May 26

-Panelist, To See and Be Seen: Nightclubs, Gender, and Virtue in Los Angeles

Koreatown, Association for Asian American Studies, Atlanta, Georgia,

March 22-26

-Panelist, Coffee and Tea with APC, the Asian Pacific Coalition and the Asian American Studies Center, Campbell Hall, UCLA, March 2

-Program Committee, the First National Korean American Economic Conference,

Los Angeles, California, January 26-28

-Panelist, Challenging The Liquor Industry In Los Angeles, The First National

Korean American Economic Conference, Los Angeles, California, January 26-28

2005

-Lecturer, Gender/Sexuality across Korea, South America, and North America,

Asian Women’s Center, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea, December 5

-Panelist, “Crash” Screening and Panel Discussion, the Covel Commons Grand

Horizon Ballroom, UCLA, October 19

-Guest Speaker, Proffy Talk, UCLA Undergraduate Anthropology Association, October 13

-Panelist, MA TA Training, Asian American Studies, September 22

-Lecturer, I. Korean Immigration History; II. Black-Korean Tension and the 1992

Los Angeles Civil Unrest, Summer Seminar on Korean History and Culture and

The Korean American Experience, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles,

July 18-22

-Panelist, “Reinventing Sacred Spaces: Second Generation Korean

American Churches in Los Angeles,” Reflections: Korean-Canadian

Identity Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 14

-Panel Organizer and Panelist, the Contested Nexus of Los Angeles

Koreatown: Bohemianization as a Step to Capital Restructuring, From

Enclave to Diaspora: Sites of Identities, Contests, and Opportunities

Association for Asian American Studies, Los Angeles, California, April 21

-Panelist, “Root Searching”: The Return of Korean Americans to South

Korean Homeland, Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial

Meeting, San Diego, California, April 9

-Panel Organizer, The 21st Century Enclave: Beyond The Way Station, Association for Asian American Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22-26

-Panel Chair and Discussant, Asian American Youth and Identity,

Association for Asian American Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22-26

2004

-Speaker, Foundations of Violence: Korean Vendors and Powerless

Customers in South Central Los Angeles, Anthropology 297; Cultures of

Capitalism, UCLA, December 7

-Lecturer, the Social Construct of Gender in the Asian American

Community, CIRCLE: Critical Issues in Race, Class and Leadership

Education, University of Southern California, November 15

-Panelist, Journal Publication, Anthropology 297; Cultures of

Capitalism, UCLA, October 26

-Panelist, the “Foxes” Outfoxed: Contentions between Koreans and Jews

in South American Textile Industry, Korean Diaspora Conference, Center

for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, May 1

-Panelist, Centennial Rituals: Transforming Korean Americans into More

Americans, Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA),

Atlanta, April 25

-Panelist, South Central Aftermath: Black and Latino Commentaries

on Koreans, Association for Asian American Studies, Boston, March 25

2003

-Panelist, Religion and Churches, Asian Pacific American Program,

Smithsonian Institution, August 15

-Panelist, the Cultivation of Korean Immigrants on American Soil: The

Discourse on Cultural Construction, Korean Culture Conference, Yonsei

University, Los Angeles, California, June 13

-Chair and Discussant, Be the Reds! Entering a New Millennium of Korean

American Studies; Panelist, Use and Abuse of History: Competing

Korean Histories in South American Countries, Association for Asian

American Studies, May 7-10, San Francisco, California

-Panelist, Centennial Rituals: Transforming Korean Americans into More

Americans, Association for Asian Studies, New York City, New York,

March 27-30

-Panelist, the New Immigrants and Old Americans Project at Queens

College: Reflections, 1982-2002, Asian/American Center, Queens

College, New York, March 25

-Speaker, the Role of the Church; Speaker, Race Relations Surrounding

the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, the Korean American Students

Conference (KASCON XVII), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, March

13-16

2002

-Guest Lecturer, South Central Aftermath: Black and Latino

Commentaries on Koreans, Anthropology 297, UCLA, October 18

-Panelist, Foundations of Violence: Korean Vendors and Powerless

Customers in South Central Los Angeles, CCKI & ICKS Joint Conference

on a Centennial Celebration of Korean Immigration to the United States at

Fairview Park Marriott Hotel, Falls Church, VA, August 16-18.

-Discussant, Development and Identity of Overseas Korean, The 3rd

Overseas Korean Forum, Korean Global Foundation, Los Angeles, May

20-22

-Chair, Post-4.29 and the Korean American Community; Panelist, South

Central Aftermath: Black and Latino Commentaries on Koreans, National

Korean American Studies Conference, UCLA James West Alumni Center,

May 11

-Guest Lecturer, Korean and Korean American History, Korean American

Leadership Initiative, UCLA, May 1

-Discussant, Christian Women and Inter-religious Dialogue; Korean

Christianity in Diasporas, International Conference on Korean Christianity

in Global Context, UCLA Center for Korean Studies, UCLA Faculty

Center, April 26-27

-Discussant, Ideologies of Language and Ethnicity; Panelist, South

Central Aftermath: Black and Latino Commentaries on Koreans,

Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City,

Utah, April 24-28

-Panelist, Foundations of Violence: Korean Vendors and Powerless

Customers in South Central Los Angeles, Anthropology In and About Los

Angeles: Ethnographies of Place, People, History and Language, UCLA

Faculty Center, April 5.

-Guest Lecturer, African-Korean American Relations, Korean Cultural

Awareness (aka Hanoolim), UCLA, February 12

-Guest Lecturer, the Racialization of Conflict: Korean Merchants in South

Central Los Angeles. Asian American Studies 197G (Ten Years after the

1992 Civil Unrest: Understanding Race Relations and Community Building

in Los Angeles Through Service Learning), January 31

2001

-Panelist, Public Ethnographer: In Pursuit of Intercessory Ethnography,

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.,

November 21-25

-Lecturer, South Central Aftermath: Black and Latino Commentaries on

Koreans, Agency, Transformations, and Politics of Everyday Life, UCLA

Anthropology, October 31

-Lecturer, “I’m Floating in the Air”: Creation of a Korean Trans-National

Space among Korean-Latino-American Re-Migrants, Monthly Seminar at

IDES (Institute for Economic and Social Development), Buenos Aires,

Argentina, August 30.

-Guest Lecturer, Ethnolinguistics, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina,

August 28.

-Panelist, “I’m Floating in the Air”: Creation of a Korean Trans-National

Space among Korean-Latino-American Re-Migrants; Speaker, Public

Presentation, (International) Workshop on Rethinking Minority/Majority

Relations: Cultural Identity and Political Process for Asians in Peru, Brazil

and the United States, University of California, Los Angeles, May 19.

-Lecturer, New Social Movements and the Use of History in Korea,

Faculty Seminars on Asian Infusion at City College of San Francisco,

April 26.

-Lecturer, 10,000 Senora Lees: The Changing Gender Ideology in the

Korean Diaspora as Reflected in the Clothing Industry, Asians in the

Americas Working Group Colloquium, UCLA, April 5.

-Chair and Discussant, for the panel discussion on Identity, Acculturation,

and Immigration Angst; Panelist, the “Foxes” Outfoxed: Contentions

Between Koreans and Jews in South American Textile Industry,

Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada,

March 30.

-Lecturer, the Cultivation of Korean Immigrants on American Soil: The

Discourse on Cultural Construction, JCAS (Japan Center for Area

Studies), National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, March 5.

-Discussant, Wagatsuma Conference on Rule of Law and Group Identities

Embedded in Asian Traditions and Cultures, UCLA School of Law,

January 19.

2000

-Chair and Panelist, the “Foxes” Outfoxed: Contentions between Koreans

and Jews in South American Textile Industry, for the panel discussion on

Transnational Migration: Strategies, Experiences and Identities; American

Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November

19.

-Discussant, Social Science Research Council, Minority Summer

Dissertation Workshop, University of California, Los Angeles, August 9.

-Panelist, 10,000 Senora Lees: The Changing Gender Ideology in the

Korean Diaspora as Reflected in the Clothing Industry, the 3rd

International Diaspora Conference, California Polytechnic University,

Pomona, June 2-4.

-Panelist, Asians and Jews in Latin America, organized by Asia and Pacific

Rim Institute of the American Jewish Committee, University of California,

San Diego, May 25.

-Chair, Korean American Movements, Kwangju after Two Decades, USC

and UCLA, Los Angeles, April 20-22.

1999

-Panelist, Japan, U.S. and World War II: The Search for Justice, The

Asian Pacific Islander Law Student Association and the International Law

Society of Whittier Law School, November 21.

-Lecturer, the Cultivation of Korean Immigrants on American Soil: The

Discourse on Cultural Construction, Institute for Corean-American

Studies, Philadelphia, June 14.

-Keynote Speaker, Korean Women’s Encounter with Feminism,

University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 30.

-Lecturer, Beneath the Los Angeles Uprising: A Conjunction of Social

Races in 1992, Third World Center, Princeton University, April 15.

Keynote Speaker, the Production of Culture in Korean America,

Exploring America’s Cultures: The Korean Americans Art, Culture and

Sensibility, Weekend Seminar, Columbia University Teacher’s College,

April 10.

-Chair and Discussant, Japanese American Histories; Panelist, Women’s

Changing Sense of Subjectivity in Transnational Korea, U.S., and South

America, Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting,

Philadelphia, April 1-3.

-Lecturer, Migrants In The ’Hood: Black, Latino, And Korean Relations

After The L.A. Uprising, Center for Korean Studies; Women of the 1.5

Generation: Alternative Manifestation of Korean American Identities,

American Studies, University of Michigan, March 17.

-Lecturer, Migrants In The ’Hood: Black, Latino, And Korean Relations

After The L.A. Uprising, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern

University, February 18.

-Lecturer, “I Really Do Feel I’m 1.5!: The Construction of Self and

Community by Young Korean Americans. Faculty Colloquium at Asian

American Studies Center, UCLA, January 28.

1998

-Panelist, One America in the 21st Century: Black, Latino, and Korean

Relations in South Central, American Anthropological Association Annual

Meeting, Philadelphia, December 3.

-Panelist, Women of the 1.5 Generation: Alternative Manifestation

of Korean American Identities, East Coast Asian Studies, State

University of New York at New Paltz, October 15-17.

-Panelist, History, Theory and Korean Anthropology: A Collection Of

Native and Non-Native Voices, the 14th International Congress of

Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, July 29-August 1.

-Chair and Discussant, Ethnicity and Nation; Panelist, Women of the 1.5

Generation: Alternative Manifestation of Korean American Identities,

Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Hawaii, June 26.

-Lecturer, “No Tension, But...”: Latino Commentary on Koreans and South

Central Aftermath, Faculty Seminar on Race, Culture, and Politics,

Princeton University, March 24.

-Discussant and Panelist, Women of the 1.5 Generation: Alternative

Manifestation of Korean American Identities, Workshop on East Asian

Immigrant Women, organized by Vassar College, March 13-14.

-Lecturer, “No Tension, But...”: Latino Commentary on Koreans and South

Central Aftermath, Urban Issues Workshop, Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for

the Social Sciences, Columbia University, March 3.

-Panelist, film discussion on “Sa-I-Gu,” organized by Women’s Studies

Program, Hunter College, CUNY, March 2.

-Commentator, the Rise and Fall of an American Nation, Faculty

Seminar on Race, Culture, and Politics, Princeton University, February

24.

-Lecturer, Struggles of America: 1992 Los Angeles Crisis and Korean,

African, and Latino Americans, Russell Sage Foundation, February 11.

1997

-Korean American Dream: Crafting Cultures, Identities, and Ideologies.

(Book talk and signing) Asian American Studies, UCLA, December 4.

-Panel Co-Organizer, Toward Anthropology of Los Angeles: Global

Village or Ethnic Enclaves?; Panelist, “No Tension, But...”: Latino

Commentary on Koreans and South Central Aftermath, American

Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.,

November 19-22.

-Guest Lecturer (book talk), Department of Anthropology, Queens College,

CUNY, October 27.

-Guest Lecturer, East Asian Pacific Summer Institute for Teachers, Center

for Pacific Rim Studies, UCLA, August 12.

-Panel Moderator, Economic Realities: Exploitation and Empowerment;

Panelist, “No Tension, But...”: Latino Commentary on Koreans and South

Central Aftermath. The First National Korean American Studies

Conference, April 25-26.

-Panelist, Theory vs. Practice? An Interdisciplinary Critique, Association for

Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle, April 17-19.

-Panelist, “I’m Floating in the Air”: Creation of a Korean Trans-National

Space among Korean-Latino-American Re-Migrants, Second

International Conference from the Global Perspective: Focusing on Asia

Pacific, University of Tsukuba, Japan, March 10-12.

-Guest Lecturer, Anthro. 370 Qualitative Methods and Research,

Occidental College, February 10.

-Panelist, the Third Annual Anthropology Symposium, UCLA, January

22.

-Panelist, About “Wild Flowers”: Emergent Feminism (or lack of) around

U.S. Military Camptowns in Korea, Frontline Feminisms Conference:

Women, War and Resistance, UC, Riverside, January 16-18.

I996

-Panelist, Do You Want to be Told about Your Diagnosis? American

Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November

24.

-Chair, Policy Issues in Development and Health at Home and Abroad, the

Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, November 24.

-Panelist, Cultural Politics and Citizenship in California: Dialogue among

Anthropologists, Activists, and Lawyers, Annual Meeting of American

Anthropological Association, November 21.

-Speaker, Preliminary Thoughts on Family, Kinship, and Everyday Life,

Presentation to North Korea Study Group, UCLA, November 16.

-Guest Lecturer, Anthropology 200A, UCLA, November 8.

-Panel Discussant, Koreans Abroad and the New Generation, International

Conference on Korean Diaspora, organized by Committee for SAT II

Korean, Los Angeles, July 20.

-Guest Lecturer, Asian American Studies 103 Social Science Research

Methods, UCLA, May 13.

-Chair, Korean Youth in the United States and their Ethnic Identity,

Conference, organized by Center for Korean Studies, U.C., Berkeley, April

27.

-Panelist, “I Really Do Feel I’m 1.5!”: Young Korean Americans’

Construction of Self and Community, 8th annual Asian Pacific American

Community Research Roundtable, California State University, Los

Angeles, April 12.

-Panelist, Thinking Theory in Asian American Studies, UCLA Asian

American Studies Center, April 10.

-Lecturer, the Morality of a Commodity: A Case Study of ‘Rebuilding L.A.

without Liquor Stores, UCLA Center for African American Studies,

February 14.

1995

-Guest Lecturer, Anthropology 200A, UCLA, November 10.

-Lecturer, The Mirror is the Message: Blacks, Koreans, and South Central

Los Angeles, National Research Center on Asian American Mental

Health, UCLA, November 6.

-Panelist, the Cultivation of Korean Immigrants on American Soil: The

Discourse on Cultural Construction, Annual Meeting of Association for

Asian American Studies, Oakland, California, June 3.

-Panelist, Public Ethnographer: In Pursuit of Intercessory Ethnography,

Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, Austin, Texas, April

28.

-Panelist, Floating Identities: Creation of a Korean Transnational Space

among Korean Immigrants from South America, conference on

Transnational Korea: Division and Diaspora, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign, April 14.

-Panelist, Thinking and Writing Korean Diaspora: A Discussion, Pre-

Conference Workshop on Contemporary Diaspora: A Focus on Asian

Pacifics, Los Angeles, February 24.

-Speaker, the Morality of a Commodity: A Case Study of ‘Rebuilding L.A.

Without Liquor Stores, Folklore and Mythology Program, UCLA, February

7.

1994

-Panelist, the Cultivation of Korean Immigrants on American Soil: The

Discourse on Cultural Construction, Annual Meeting of American

Anthropological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, December 1.

-Panelist, Anthropology Symposium, UCLA, November 10.

-Panelist, Linking South Korean Small Businesses across the Pacific,

organized by Southern California Korean and Korean American Studies

Group, the Keck Center for Int'l and Strategic Affairs, Claremont-

McKenna College, Claremont, California, October 29.

-Panelist, Emerging Issues in American Race Relations and the Korean

Immigrant Community, 5th Academic Conference of Korean American

University Professors Association, Atlanta, Georgia, October 20.

-Guest Speaker, Relationships between Law, Asian Pacific American

Identity and Other Minority Groups, the Asian Pacific American Law

Professors Conference, Boston College Law School and Northeastern

University School of Law, October 15.

-Panelist, Spotlight on Los Angeles: Multiethnic Perspectives on the 1992

Los Angeles Rebellion, 89th Annual Meeting of American Sociological

Association, Los Angeles, California, August 7.

-Panelist, Racial and Ethnic Tensions in Los Angeles Part II: The African-

American, Korean-American Encounter, Annual Meeting of Society for

the Study of Social Problems, Los Angeles, California, August 6.

Commentator, Democratization and Civil Society (talk by Yoo Bo Sung),

organized by The Pacific Institute for Peacemaking (PIP), at The Center

for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies, the University of Southern

California, June 24.

-Panelist, Korean Americans, African Americans, and South Central Los

Angeles: The Mirror is the Message, Annual Meeting of The American

Ethnological Society, Los Angeles, April 14-17.Panelist, Responding to Race Realities, Sixth Annual Asian Pacific

American Community Research Roundtable, UCLA, April 15.

-Chair/Discussant, Sites of Interaction among Ethnic Minorities in Los

Angeles; Chair/Discussant, Perspectives on the Korean American

Experience, the Morality of a Commodity: A Case Study of ‘Rebuilding

L.A. Without Liquor Stores; Association for Asian American Studies

University of Michigan, April 6-10.

-Panelist, Korean Traditions: Their Impact on the Future, organized by the

Asia Society, co-sponsored with Georgetown University and the Korea

Society, March 9; Moderator, Korean Traditions in a Modern Context:

Economic Development, Religion and Popular Culture, organized by the

Asia Society, co-sponsored with UCLA and the Korea Society, March 5.

-Guest Lecturer, Black/Korean Tension: Triangulating Class at the

Crossroads of Race and Ethnicity, at the Department of Ethnic Studies,

University of California, San Diego, January 27.

1993

-Panelist, Race and Ethnicity, Class and Culture: The Construction of

Black/Korean and Latino (a)/Korean Tensions in LA, 92nd Annual

Meeting of American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.,

November 17-21.

-Guest Lecturer, Graduate Seminar on Race, Gender, Culture and Cities,

School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA, November 8.

-Guest Lecturer, the Practice of Anthropology, Graduate Proseminar,

Department of Anthropology, UCLA, October 18.

-Panelist, The Placing of Korean Culture in Multi-Ethnic America, paper

presented at the Conference on Korean Ethnics, organized by the

Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul, Korea, September 17-24.

-Guest Lecturer, at the Department of Anthropology, Seoul National

University, Seoul, Korea, September 14.

-Guest Lecturer, Anthropological Approaches to the Los Angeles Crisis,

the East Asian Pacific Summer Institute for Teachers by Center for Pacific

Rim Studies, UCLA, August 2.

-Chair/Discussant; Asian Americans in Philadelphia: Strategies for Urban

Survival and Resistance; Panelist, Race and Ethnicity, Class and Culture:

Rebuilding Koreatown and South Central L.A, Plenary Session 2 on Race

Relations After the 1992 L.A. “Riots”; Panelist, Links between Asian and

Asian American Studies at the Annual Meetings of Association for Asian

American Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 3-6.

-Guest Lecturer, Korean Comfort Women Drafted by the Japanese Military

Army during the World War II at Half-the-Sky Study Group on East Asia

and Gender, Los Angeles, June 1.

-Panelist, Aftermath of the Los Angeles Riots: Hurts and Healing, Annual

Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Washington D.C., May

22-27.

-Keynote Speaker, 11th Annual Korean Culture Night; Guest Lecturer,

Korean-African American Conflict and Relations; Guest Lecturer, Black

Studies, organized by Korean Student Association and sponsored by the

Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America, University of Colorado

at Boulder, April 1-4.

-Panelist, the End of an Ideology: Korean Americans Analyzing April 29th,

paper presented at the Conference on the New Directions for the Korean-

American Community: After the Civil Unrest of April 1992 in Los Angeles,

organized by Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies, University

of Southern California, March 19-20.

-Guest Lecturer, Los Angeles Uprising, invited by “Rice,” Student

Newspaper at University of California, Irvine, March 9.

-Panelist, “Public Nuisance?” Korean Liquor Stores in South Central Los

Angeles, paper presented for the Panel on the Los Angeles “Riots”-Who,

What, Why, and Now What?, Annual Meeting of American Association for

the Advancement of Science, Boston, February 13-14.

-Guest Lecturer, Graduate Seminar in Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology

and Systematic Musicology Department, UCLA, February 3.

-Panelist, Perspectives on Civil Unrest in Los Angeles, Department of

Sociology Colloquium, UCLA, January 20.

1992

-Panelist, Korean Americans, African Americans, and South Central Los

Angeles: “The Mirror is the Message”; Interpenetrating Race and Class:

Black/Korean Tension in South Central Los Angeles, 91st Annual Meeting

of American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, December 2-6.

Panelist, Public Ethnographer: In Pursuit of Intercessory Ethnography,

paper presented at Anthropology Departmental Forum, UCLA, November

24.

-Panelist, Interpenetrating Race and Class: Black/Korean Tension in South

Central Los Angeles, paper presented at the Eighth National Conference

of the Association for Asian American Studies, San Jose, California, May

28-30.

-Panelist, Questioning `Culture’ in the Black/Korean Conflicts, paper

presented for the Conference, Black-Korean Encounter: Toward

Understanding and Alliance, California State University, Los Angeles, May

22-23.

-Panelist, Use and Abuse of Race and Culture: Koreans in Harlem and

Watts, paper presented to the Faculty Colloquium at Asian American

Studies Center, UCLA, February 6.

1991

-Chair and Panelist, the Rise of Sisters in Korean America: The Shift to

Women-Centered Kin Organization, for the panel discussion,

Transformations of Gender and Kinship in East Asia: Family and the

Forces of Capitalist Development, at the 90th annual meeting of

American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 20-24.

-Panelist, Capital Generation and Husband/Wife Partnership: Rotating

Credit Associations in the Korean American Community, paper presented

at the Eighth National Conference of the Association for Asian American

Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 29-31.

-Panelist, the Comforts of Christianity for Korean Americans: Religion and

the Reproduction of Small Business Activity, paper presented for Asian

American Studies Center Colloquium Series, University of California, Los

Angeles, May 14.

-Panelist, Contesting Gender Roles: Declaring War in the Korean

American Community, paper presented at the symposium on Women

and the Contemporary Korea, organized by Center for Korean Studies at

University of Illinois, sponsored by Asia Society, February 2.

1990

-Panelist, Declaring War at Home: Different Conceptions of Marriage and

Gender in the Korean American Community, for the panel discussion

Rethinking Patriarchy and the Construction of Gender in Contemporary

East Asia, at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological

Association, New Orleans, November 28-December 2.

-Panelist, the Emergence of Wife Battering Among Korean Immigrants:

The Cultural Context, for the roundtable discussion, Women Battering in

Asian Immigrant Communities in the United States, at the Fourth

International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Hunter College CUNY,

New York, June 3-7.

-Panelist, the Community-University Link: Research About, With, For

Asians in New York City, along with Center staff, for the first Asian

American Heritage Festival Forum, at John Jay College, April 20.

-Guest Lecturer, Korean Immigrant Women in America: Women’s Work

and a New Gender Consciousness, in celebration of the Asian-Pacific

American Heritage Month at Princeton University, invited by Korean

American Students Association and the University’s Minority Affairs Advisor

Program, April 19.

-Chair/Panelist, New Labor Power and New Consciousness: A Case Study

of Korean Immigrant Women in New York City, for the panel discussion, “Realities and Choices: Korean Women and Work, for the Association for

Asian Studies in Chicago, April 7.

-Panelist, Korean Arrangements of Ethnicity in the U.S.: The Workplace Encounter, seminar for the Center for Korean Research at the East Asian

Institute, Columbia University, April 3.

1989

-Guest Lecturer, Needs in the Korean Immigrant Community, for the

Asian Caucus at the Department of Social Work at Columbia University,

December 21.

-Panelist, Beyond Parochialism: The Impact of Korean Political

Liberalization on the Korean American Community, for the panel

discussion: Dissent and the Transformation of Social Discourse in Late

Twentieth-Century Korea at the Annual Meeting of the American

Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 15-19.

-Panelist, Restructuring New York City’s Government, October 2, for the

First Annual Minorities in Public Affairs Conference: Issues in Public

Policy: Challenges in a Changing Urban Environment, organized by the

School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University,

September 28 -October 6.

-Panelist, at the Sixth National Conference, Association for Asian

American Studies; Hunter College, CUNY— the Korean Elderly in

Queens, June 1; panel organizer, Korean Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations,

And paper on Conception of Ethnicities by Koreans: The Workplace

Encounters, June 2; organizer and commentator for New Urban

Tensions: Blacks and Koreans in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New

York, June 3.

-Keynote Panelist, Korean Immigrant Women and New Gender Ideology,

for the panel discussion on Women in Families: A Multi-Cultural

Perspective, Marymount College, April 12.

1988

-Panelist, the Majority-minority, for the closing conference on “Realizing

America, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, December 9.

-Panelist, the Family in American History and Culture-Challenges in

America for the Koreans, in the “Becoming American” Program; Koreans

in the United States, Queens College and the Queens Public Library, at

Flushing Branch Library, November 26.

-Panelist, “Born Again”: What Does It Mean to the Korean-Americans?

New York City?, Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Association,

Phoenix, Arizona, November 16-20.

-Panelist, Examining Asian, Asian/American, and Women Studies at

Queens College at City University Conference, In the CUNY Classroom:

Integrating the New Scholarship on Gender, Ethnicity, Race and Class Into

the College Curriculum, Hunter College, May 12.

1987

-Panelist, No More Slant Eyes: Ethnic Conflict between Koreans and

Other Minorities, for the panel, Beyond the Model Minority Myth: Asian

Americans in the 1980’s, at the Annual meeting of the American Studies

Association, November 21-24.

-Panelist, Ladies First: Women’s Activism in the Korean American

Community, for the panel “Women Emergent: Local Level Activism in a

“Majority/Minority” Neighborhood, at the Annual Meeting of the

American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 17-22.

1984

-Panelist, Korean Anthropology: Status Change within the Social

Sciences, in a symposium on Comparing Anthropologies: Past and

Present Trends Outside of Western Europe and the United States, at the

Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Denver,

Colorado, November 14-18.

-Panelist, A Struggle for Existence under the Interplay of State and

Capital: Informal Economy in a Squatter Settlement of Seoul, in a

symposium on The Flow of Labor and the Flight of Capital: A New

Context for Ethnography?, Northeastern Anthropological Association,

Hartford CT, March 24.

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Posts:

19-Present Commentator and Consultant, Liquor Store Dreams (documentary),

So Yun Um (producer)

2018 Humanities Advisor, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs

(DCA) grant application (to the NEH) for Belonging: A Multimedia Story

Platform for Promise Zone Arts

08-14 Advisory Board, Tom Bradley’s Impossible Dream (documentary),

Alison Sotomayor and Lyn Goldfarb (producers)

12-13 Board of Directors, Foundation for Korean Language and Culture in

the USA

2012 Commentator, KBS Sunday Special: LA Riots. (TV documentary),

Adam Liggio (producer) (Korean Version)

06-07 Commentator, Clash of Colors (documentary), David D. Kim (producer)

05-present Research Council, Korean American Economic Development

Center

03-04 Advisory Board, Korean Community Center of East Bay;

“In Our Own Voice: The Making of a Korean Community Exhibition”

Oakland Museum

97-98 Consultant, Special Exhibition, "The New Metropolis: A Century of

Greater New York, 1898-1998," organized by the Museum of the City of

New York

96-97 Co-Curator, “Constructing Desire: Coming of Age in Korean America”

Korean American Museum, Los Angeles

93-97 Board of Directors and Committee Chair, Violence against Women,

Women’s Organization Reaching Koreans Program Committee, Korean

American Museum Advisory Committee, Southern California Korean and

Korean American Studies

91-97 Research Associate at the Pacific Institute for Peacemaking, Los

Angeles

95 Exhibition Chair, “Comfort Women: Struggling for Dignity in Asia during

WWII,” Korean American Museum

93-95 Board of Directors, Coalition against Military Slavery by Japan, Los

Angeles

94 Honorary Committee for the CAMP ARIRANG (documentary film)

93-94 Consultant, South Central Los Angeles: Inside Voices (documentary

film), by Maxi Cohen Film and Video Productions; Another America

(documentary), Michael Cho (film maker)

90 Board of Directors, New York Asian Women’s Center

89-90 Vice-President, Korean American Association of Flushing, New York

87-89 Consultant, Korean American Association of the Mid-Queens, New York

84-90 Member, Korean American Women for Action, New York

Presentations:

2020 Keynote Speaker, Advocating for Democratization of the Korean

American Family, for the Conference, organized by

(KOWIN) Korean Women International Network of LA, October 13

2018 Commentator, New York Times; A student journalist at USC Annenberg;

freelance journalist for KPCC (89.3FM)

2017 Panelist, LA92: the Past is Prologue. National Geographic at FOX, April

28; Commentator, the New Republic; MPR News (Minnesota Public Radio)

2014 Consultant, Korean American History, Special Archives Management

Division, Archives, Management Bureau, The National Archives of Korea;

Commentator, Store Brands, NPR News

2013 Speaker, Corner Stores in LA and their Communities, Healthy

Neighborhood Markets Training, presented by the LAFPC (Los Angeles

Food Policy Council), March 19

2012 Lecturer, New Ideas and Practices toward Love, Marriage, and

Family, the Hanbich Club, June 9; Keynote Speaker, In Commemoration of

the 20th Anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, the April 29 LA

Memorial Foundation, Los Angeles, April 25; Lecturer, Race Relations and

War on Racism, Foundation for Korean Language and Culture in the USA,

Los Angeles Korean Education Center, Los Angeles, March 17

2011 Lecturer, the 12th Korean American Experience for Law Enforcement,

GCS Los Angeles Club, Korean Cultural Center, March 25 and January 5 2010 Lecturer, the 10th Korean American Experience for Law Enforcement,

GCS Los Angeles Club, Korean Cultural Center, November 10 and

September 1

2009 Lecturer, Korean American History and Experience, Valley Leadership

Conference, Korean Education Center, July 21

2008 Speaker, Korean American History and Experience, Seminar on Korean

History and Culture and the Korean American Experience, organized by

Korean Academy for Educators, La Canada High School, Los Angeles,

October 29; Speaker, Korean American Family, Seminar on Korean

History and Culture and the Korean American Experience, organized by

Korean Academy for Educators, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, July

11 and April 26; Keynote Speaker, KIWA (Koreatown Immigrant Workers

Alliance) Cultural Education Grand Opening, April 29; Guest (Talk show),

Reflecting on the Sa-I-Gu [The 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest], Today’s

Focus, Radio Korea, April 29

2007 Speaker, Centennial Rituals: Transforming Korean Americans into More

Americans, Symposium organized by Korean National Association

Memorial Foundation, Korean American Federation of LA, December 8;

Lecturer, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, November 3 and April 26;

Commentator, Clash of Colors (Documentary on the 1992 Los Angeles

Civil Unrest), David D. Kim (Producer)

2006 Speaker, (Korean Immigrant) Mental Health, 1st Special Symposium on

Mental Health, Oxford Palace Hotel, October 4, 2006; Commentator,

Crossing East: First Asians in America (an Eight-Hour History from

National Public Radio), MediaRites Productions, May; Facilitator, April 29,

1992; Where Are We Today? (A Forum and Community Dialogue Event),

Korean American Coalition 4.29 Center & Los Angeles City Human

Relations Commission, Korean United Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles,

April 29

2005 Lecturer, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles July 22; Panelist,

Discussions around the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, Radio Korea, Los

Angeles, April 29; Speaker, Poverty, Low-Wage Work, and Koreatown: A

State-of-Koreatown Community Townhall on the Anniversary of the LA

Uprising, organized by Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates, Los

Angeles, California, April 23; Guest Speaker, Double Minority

(Homosexuality and the Korean American Community), Egg: West

Coast (Korean American TV Show), January 19, International Channel at

9pm Pacific Time

2004 Panelist, Commemorating the Centennial of Korean Immigration and

Experience in the United States, Korea Times Los Angeles, December 7

2003 Speaker, Immigrant Entrepreneurship, the Centennial Korean American

Conference, Korean Youth and Community Center, Skirball Center,

August 22; Speaker, the Role of the Korean American Church, WDCT

Radio Washington D.C., May 31; Lecturer, Korean American’s Ethnic

Identity, Korean Education Center, Los Angeles, April 8; Guest Speaker,

Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed, the Learning Channel,

March 18; Panelist, A Special Community Forum in LA’s Koreatown: The

Crisis in US-North Korea Relations, AirTalk, KPCC 89.3FM (Southern

California Public Radio), March 11

2002 Guest Lecturer, Special [Korean] Act on the Immigration and Legal Status

of Overseas Koreans of 1998, Inaugural Ceremony, Korean Institute for

Human Rights (Los Angeles Branch), Oxford Palace Hotel, CA, July 19;

Discussant, Development and Identity of Overseas Korean, The 3rd

Overseas Korean Forum, Korean Global Foundation, Los Angeles, May

20-22; Panelist, Community Race Relations in LA, Are We Getting

Along, Ten Years After?; The Impact of LA’s Civil Unrest, Legal Aid

Foundation of Los Angeles, April 26

2001 Keynote Speaker, Korean American Women United Conference, Los

Angeles, July 28; Discussant, Race, Class, and Identity: Cultural

Understanding Through Cinema, Film Screening and Discussion Series,

Organized by Asia Society Southern California Center, Glendale Central

Library, March 31.

2000 Speaker, Community Forum with Former Comfort Woman and Artist,

Soon-Duk Kim, UCLA, October 23; Panelist, Film Screening and

Discussion on Comfort Women, UCLA, October 18; Keynote Speaker,

Towards a Cultural Analysis of Korean Immigrant Parents and Korean

American Children, the First Annual Youth and Family Conference, The

Korean Youth and Community Center, October14; Panelist,

Demystifying Gender Stereotypes of Asian American Women and Men,

Ethnic Stereotypes and Sexual Culture: In Pursuit of Human Dignity,

Women’s Development Institute International, Philadelphia, July 30.

1999 Speaker, History of Comfort Women, Japanese American Cultural and

Community Center, Los Angeles, December 3; Speaker, 2nd Generation

Asian Americans, American Museum of Natural History, May 22-23;

Lecturer, Korean American Women’s Issues in Year 2000, National

Association of Korean Americans, New York City, March 27; Speaker,

Contemporary Asian-American Communities, Minority Affairs Advisers,

Princeton University, February 2.

1998 Workshop Facilitator, Cultural Identity: Redefining Ourselves, Korean

American Women’s Leadership Conference, Forward with Vision,

YWCA of the City of New York Flushing Branch, October 17.

1997 Panelist, Press Conference announcing the National Korean American

Studies Conference. Korean Youth and Community Center, March 25;

Guest Lecturer, Han-Arum Church, Norwalk, February 16.

1996 Commentator, Korean Ethos in the Age of Globalization. Korean

American Journalists Association Seminar, Los Angeles, December 8;

Guest Lecturer, Korean Diaspora, Dosan Heritage Society, Los Angeles,

October 19; Lecturer, Korean Culture, Cultural Exchange Program

organized by Orange County Korean Grocers Association, October 8;

Guest Speaker, Blacks and Asians: Erasing the Color Lines. KKBT

(92.3) radio station The Beat’s Roundtable, September 15; Lecturer,

Korean Immigration to the United States and Blacks and Koreans in

South Central Los Angeles, the African American/Latino Invitational

Educational Program, organized by National Institute for International

Education Development, Ministry of Education, Seoul, Korea, August 12 &

15; Lecturer, Introduction to Korean Culture, African American/Latino

Invitational Educational Program, at Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles,

July 11; Lecturer, 1992 Los Angeles Riot/Rebellion: Four Years Later,

Lecture for Korean American Townhall Forum, organized by Korean

American United Students for Education and Service, UCLA, May 23;

Lecturer, Korean American Experience: Overview, the Korean American

Youth Mentorship Project, Korean American Youth and Community

Center, May 11; Master of Ceremony, UCLA Korean American Research

Project Collection, April 14; Lecturer, Korean American Experience,

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, March 26.

1995 Panelist, American Immigration: Questions for the Future, the Asia

Society, Southern California Center, October 24; Opening Commentator,

Press Conference, Comfort Women: Struggling for Dignity in Asia During

WWII, Photo and Art Exhibit, Korean American Museum, June 29;

Panelist, Community/Law School Seminar, organized by Korean

American Bar Association of Southern California and Central Lions Club,

May 13; Panelist, Korean American Cultural Survival, organized by UCLA

at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, May 6;

Panelist, Parent Survival, organized by the United Way of Greater Los

Angeles, Berendo Middle School, March 23; Panelist, Proposition 187:

New Face of Immigrant Bashing, at the Conference on America is in the

Heart: A Voice for our Communities, organized by the Asian American

Journalists Association, University of Southern California, January 28;

Panelist, Current Interventions, Girls and Women: An Investment in the

Future, organized by United States Committee for UNICEF (United

Nations Children’s Fund), Los Angeles, January13.

1994 Commentator, Welfare Reform and the Korean American Community,

organized by the Korean Federation of Los Angeles, broadcast by KTE

(ch. 18) TV, December 14; Opening Commentator, Asian American

Feminism: Sights on the Future, organized by Women's Organization

Reaching Koreans, December 3; Discussant, the European American

and Latino Experience, for Living and Working in a Multicultural Society,

organized by Korean Cultural Center and The Korea Society/Los

Angeles, October 27; Speaker, the Women of Koreatown after April 29,

1992, organized by Women’s Organization Reaching Koreans, at

Westwood United Methodist Church, May 4; Speaker, Workshop on

Instructional Strategies for Working with Korean and Korean-American

Students, at Sunnyhills High School, organized by the Fullerton Joint

Union High School District, Fullerton, April 25; Speaker, Korean

American Leadership Conference, Los Angeles, April 15.

1993 Panelist, Selecting the Artist for the Cultural Explainers Koreatown

Project at Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, September 30;

October 21; Keynote Speaker, the Changing Faces of Korean American

Families, organized by Korean Family Counseling and Legal Advice

Center, held at University of Southern California, October 8-9; Guest

Speaker, Politics and the Community, for CORO Fellows Program in

Public Affairs, UCLA, July 20; Keynote Speaker, Commencement for the

Graduating Students in the Masters of Arts Program in Asian American

Studies, UCLA, June 20; Panelist, Film Visions of the City, UCLA

American Studies Conference on Urban Culture, May 20;

Moderator/Panelist, Politics and the Community: An Open Forum on the

Future of Multi-Ethnic Community in Los Angeles, organized by UCLA’s

Ethnic Studies Center, May 19; Panelist, First Annual “Cultural Festival,”

Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, May 14; Panelist, the Phase

and Status of Korean-American Post-4.29, organized by the Pacific

Institute for Peacemaking, live broadcast by Radio Korea; Panelist, at the

First AME Church, live broadcast by KCRW (radio station), April 29;

Facilitator, African American/Korean American Relations, World Festival,

UCLA, April 20; Speaker, Korean Women’s Forum, organized by

KAUSES (Korean American United Students for Education Service),

UCLA, March 2.

1992 Guest Speaker, Impact of US Economics and Racism on Korean

American Community, for African American/ Korean American Dialogue

Consultation, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, Los

Angeles, December 7; Panelist, Teleconferencing Seminar on Koreans

in America, at Korea Program, UCLA, (jointly with Seoul National

University, Korea), October 22; Guest Speakers, Asian Americans and

Pacific Islanders: Revolutionary Perspectives (concerning the Los

Angeles Crisis) at Midnight Special Bookstore, August 15; Guest

Speaker at UCLA: Advanced Medical Anthropology Seminar by I. Lopez;

Introduction to Asian American Studies Class by V. Matsumoto; Office Of

Residential Life; Korean Education and Action Congress and Korean

Students Association; Radical Students Alliance; Korean American

Students’ Rally regarding the L.A. Riot; Historical Perspectives for

Social Action (organized by Department of History); Educational Forum

on the L.A. Riot; Educational Forum (organized by School of Public

Health); Asian Pacific Islanders (for forum on the L.A. Riot and Asian

American communities and as keynote speaker for the graduation

ceremony); Minority Students Summer Conference.

1991 Guest Speaker, Interpreting the Korean American Family and Kinship, at

Korean American Social Workers Association, Los Angeles, December

11; Guest Speaker, Women and Men in Korean American Society:

Critical Perspectives on Sexuality, Family, and Employment, for the

Fourth Symposium on Women and Post-modern World at the Pacific

Institute for Peacemaking, Garden Grove, November 9; Panelist for

Korean-American Gender Issues Forum, at Korean American Coalition,

Los Angeles, September 5; Guest Speaker, Korean Immigrant Workers

in New York and Los Angeles, for Class on Labor and Ethnicity,

Department of Anthropology, California State University, Dominguez

Hills, April 13.

1990 Guest Speaker at UCLA, the Middle Eastern and Asian/Pacific Islander

Women; Asian American Studies Class by P. Ong; Critical Issues in

Asian American Communities, seminar by E. Bonacich; Guest Speaker,

Domestic violence in the Korean American community, the New

York Asian Women’s Center, at Hansung Korean Presbyterian Church,

April 16; Guest Speaker, Korean Immigrant Women and New Gender

Consciousness, for the Korean Women’s Support Committee at the

Women’s Center of Montgomery County in Philadelphia, in celebration of

their 5th anniversary, March 31; Guest Speaker, Korean American

Women Today, at the American Museum of Natural History, January

27- 28 (presented eight times; part of Korea Month Program);

Guest Speaker, Gender Relations in the Community, for Cinema and

Society: A New Asian Identity, organized by Asian Cinevision, at the

American Museum of Natural History, January 14.

1989 Guest Speaker, the Korean-American Community in New York and the

Korean Finance System, for the Mid-Winter Community Seminar:

Community Action in a Multi-Ethnic Society, at International House,

December 21; Guest Speaker, Korean American Church Participation

in the Community Affairs, the Korean Association of Greater New York,

December 5; Guest Speaker, Gender Discrimination in the Korean

American community, for the Summer Conference organized by

Korean Americans for Peace and Justice, at Boulville Korean Retreat

Center, New York, August 26; Panelist, American education, organized

by International Student Services, at Queens College, August 23; Guest

Lecturer, Some Aspects of Korean Culture, for the Hall of Asian

Peoples, at the American Museum of Natural History, prepared for the

Staff of the Teaching Programs, Education Department, August 11;

Consultant, Charter Revision in relation to the Korean American

Community, testified at the Queens Public Hearing at La Guardia

Community College, July 19; Jackson Heights, June 7;

Organizer/Panelist, Women-Related Issues in the Korean American

Community, for the roundtable discussion at Korean American

Association of Flushing, June 21; Guest Lecturer, Survey on Korean

Store signs in Flushing, presentation at Korean American

Association of Flushing, May 22; Guest Lecturer, Labor Relations in the

Korean American Community, the Asian American Workers Issues: A

four week course about Asians in the labor movement, Puerto Rican-

Latino Program, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell

University, April 22; Guest Lecturer, the Korean Community in

Sunnyside and Queens Discussion for Cultural Sharing: A Dialogue

with the Koreans in Our Community, organized by the New York City

Commission on Human Rights at Dae Dong Restaurant, March 30;

Guest Speaker for the 108th police precinct, Korean community in

Sunnyside and Woodside, January 25.

1988 Guest Speaker, Korean Community in Sunnyside discussion, organized

by the Neighborhood Stabilization Committee, NYC Commission on

Human Rights, December 13; Guest Speaker, General background to

the Asian community in Queens, organized by Mayor’s Office

of Asian Affairs, July 20; Guest Speaker, Symposium on Korea, talk and

slide presentation at the American Museum of Natural History, June 12;

Guest Speaker, Social Stratification in the Korean-American Community,

and the One-and-a-Half Generation Phenomena, Summer Conference,

Korean Americans for Peace and Justice, New York, May 27-29; Guest

Speaker, Korean Women: Changes and Continuity, the American

Museum of Natural History, New York, May 7-8 (presented eight times as

part of Korea month program).

1986 Panelist, Korean American Women: Enthusiasm and Disillusionment with

Employment and Life in America, for panel workshop on Asian-American

Women: Tradition and History, organized by the Girl Scouts of the

United States of America, May 22-24, 1986, Edith Macy Conference

Center, Briarcliff Manor, NY.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

19 Ad Hoc Faculty Advisory Committee, a new study abroad program, Immigration and Identity: Asia in South America, University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP).

19 Dean's Social Science Forum, Asian American Studies Department (AASD)

19 Legislative Assembly (LgA) of the Academic Senate, AASD

17-19 Diversity Committee, Anthropology

13-16 Committee on International Education (CIE), Academic Senate

10-13 Grievance Advisory Committee, Academic Senate

13-18 Admissions Committee, Anthropology

12-13, 13-14, 14-15, 16-17, 18-19, 19-present Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committee, Anthropology

12-13 (spring) Awards Committee, Anthropology

16-17 Admissions Committee, AASD

14-15, 16-17 and 17-18 Academic Personnel Committee, AASD

11-present Faculty Advisory Committee, AASD

12-13 & 13-14 Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committee, AASD

11-12 Graduate Affairs (Admissions and Awards), AASD

11-12 IAC (Institute of American Cultures) Graduate Fellowship/ Research Grant Committee, AASC

11-present Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Korean Studies (CKS) 12-14 E-School Curriculum Development Committee, CKS

11-present M.A. IDP Committee, East Asian Studies

10-11 Grievance Advisory Committee, Academic Senate

Admissions Committee, Anthropology

Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Korean Studies

IDP Committee, East Asian Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, AASD

Graduate Affairs (Admissions and Awards), AASD

IAC (Institute of American Cultures) Graduate Fellowship/ Research

Grant Committee, Asian American Studies

08-09 Privilege & Tenure Committee, Academic Senate

Admissions Committee, Anthropology

Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Korean Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Asian American Studies

Undergraduate Affairs, Asian American Studies

IAC Graduate Fellowship, Asian American Studies

Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committee, Asian American Studies

07-08 Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committees, College of Letters and Sciences

Privilege & Tenure Committee, Academic Senate

Review Committee, UC Pacific Rim Research Program (UCLA)

Coordinator (spring), Culture, Power, and Social Change, Anthropology

Institute of American Cultures Research Grant Committee

Chair, Undergraduate Affairs, Asian American Studies

Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committee, Asian American Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Asian American Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Korean Studies

06-07 Privilege & Tenure Committee, Academic Senate

Legislative Assembly (Anthropology), Academic Senate

Admissions Committee, Anthropology

Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committee, Anthropology

Faculty Representative and Committee Chair, Executive Committee,

Asian American Studies

Review Committee, Fellowships & Prizes, Asian American Studies

Center

Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committee, Asian American Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Asian American Studies

Research, Anthropology (F’04)

Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Korean Studies

05-06 Faculty Advisory Committee, UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History

Research

Legislative Assembly (Anthropology), Academic Senate

Awards Committee, Anthropology

Curriculum Committee, Asian American Studies

Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committee, Asian American Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Asian American Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Korean Studies

Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committee, Anthropology

03-05 Committee on Diversity and Equal Opportunity (CODEO), Academic

Senate

Legislative Assembly (Anthropology, 04-05), Academic Senate

Admissions Committee (04-05), Anthropology

Coordinator, the Cultures of Capitalism Working Group in Ethnographic

Research, Anthropology

Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Korean Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Asian American Studies

Interdepartmental Degree Program Committee (03-04), Asian American

Studies

Institute of American Cultures Post Doc Selection Committee, Asian

American Studies

Departmental Bylaws Committee, Asian American Studies

Admissions Committee, Asian American Studies

02-03 Committee on Diversity and Equal Opportunity (CODEO), Academic

Senate

Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Korean Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Asian American Studies

Interdepartmental Degree Program Committee, Asian American Studies

Admissions Committee, Anthropology

Colloquium Committee, Anthropology

Departmental Committee on Asian American Studies

Departmentalization, Anthropology

01-02 Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committees, College of Letters and Sciences

Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Korean Studies

Post Doc Selection Committee, Asian American Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Asian American Studies

Interdepartmental Degree Program Committee, Asian American Studies

Awards Committee, Anthropology

00-01 Review Committee, Dissertation Year Fellowships

Education Abroad Program, Selection Committee

Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Korean Studies

Research Grant Review Committee, Asian American Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Asian American Studies

Interdepartmental Degree Program Committee, Asian American Studies

Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committees, Anthropology

Awards Committee, Anthropology

99-00 Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committees, College of Letters and Sciences

Research Grant Review Committee, East Asian Studies

Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committees, Asian American Studies

Post Doc Selection Committee, Asian American Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Asian American Studies

Interdepartmental Degree Program Committee, Asian American Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Korean Studies

Awards Committee, Anthropology

96-97 Outstanding Graduate Student Award Nominating Committee

Review Committee, Graduate Fellowships, Graduate Division

Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committee, School of Public Policy and

Social Research

Selection Committee (Co-Chair), Angie Kwon Memorial Scholarship

Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Korean Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Asian American Studies

Interdepartmental Degree Program Committee, Asian American Studies

Committee to Supervise the Program in Asian American Studies

Teaching Assistant Selection Committee, Asian American Studies

Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committee, Anthropology

Admissions Committee, Anthropology

94-96 Review Committee, Fulbright Graduate Study Abroad Program

Selection Committee (Co-Chair), Angie Kwon Memorial Scholarship

Search Committees, Center for Korean Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Korean Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Asian American Studies

Interdepartmental Degree Program Committee, Asian American Studies

Committee to Supervise the Program in Asian American Studies

Teaching Assistant Selection Committee, Asian American Studies

Graduate Admission Committee, Asian American Studies

Search Committees, Department of Anthropology

Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committees, Anthropology

Standing Review Committee, Anthropology

Awards Committee, Anthropology

92-94 Review Committee, Fulbright Graduate Study Abroad Program

Selection Committee (Co-Chair), Angie Kwon Memorial Scholarship

Search Committees, Department of Art History

Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Korean Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Asian American Studies

Research Grant/Fellowship and Post Doc Selection Committee, IAC

Review Committee on Interethnic Research Grant Proposal, Institute of

American Cultures (IAC)

Teaching Assistant Selection Committee, Asian American Studies

Graduate Admission Committee, Asian American Studies

Personnel Ad Hoc Review Committees (as observer), Anthropology

Awards Committee, Anthropology

Honors Committee, Anthropology

90-92 Research Grant Review Committee, Asian American Studies

Proposal Committee on Black-Korean Conflict, Asian American Studies

M.A. Admissions Committee, Asian American Studies

Teaching Assistant Selection Committee, Asian American Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Asian American Studies

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