CURRICULUM VITAE
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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