Principal Researcher
KIM, Sunhye
- Women’s Studies
- Yeonghak-gwan, room 201
- Sunhye Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Women's Studies. Her research and teaching focus on the politics of human (re)production, technology and gender, family and labor, cross-border medical tourism, and qualitative methods. Her major publications include “Eggs and Sperm from Others: Reproduction and Gendered Racialization in South Korea,” “The Role of Reproductive Justice Movements in Challenging the Ban on Abortion in South Korea,” “Reproductive Technologies as Population Control: How Pronatalist Policies Harm Reproductive Health in South Korea.” She received her Ph.D. in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland and completed her postdoctoral research at Harvard University and George Washington University before joining Ewha Womans University.
Co-principal Researcher
YI, Sohoon
- Sociology
- Sohoon Yi is an Associate Professor in the Division of Global Korean Studies at Korea University and previously undertook fellowships and employment at Rice University, the University of Toronto, the University of Sydney, and Kyungpook National University. She conducts action research, focusing on migrant subjectivity at the intersection of gender, immigration laws, precarious labor, and the informal market. She has published articles in various academic journals, including Citizenship Studies, American Behavioral Scientist, Social Politics, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. The Special Issue on race in South Korea that she guest edited with Han Sang Kim is forthcoming in the Journal of Asian Studies.
LEE, Young-Min
- Social Studies Education (Human Geography)
- Young-Min Lee is a professor in the Department of Social Studies Education at Ewha Womans University, while also holding joint appointments in the Multicultural/Intercultural Cooperation Program and the Asian Women's Studies Program at the graduate school. He earned his Ph.D. in Geography and Anthropology from Louisiana State University. Through poststructuralist theories, he explores the relationship between culture and geography, focusing on global migration phenomena and the reconstruction of regions and places, while also reflecting on issues of human life within these contexts. He is also deeply engaged in research on the human geography of travel and tourism. His major publications include A Geographer’s Human Travel of a Geographer, A Geographer’s Tropical Human Travel, and Cities and Architecture in the World.
CHUNG, Ga Young
- Global Studies in Education (Minor in Asian American Studies)
- Ga Young Chung is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from Yonsei University and her Ph.D. in Global Studies in Education with a minor in Asian American Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include critical race theory, globalization, racial capitalism, militarism and (de)colonization, migration and transnationalism, and social activism. Her major journal publications include ““This is What We Wanted to Learn”: Anti-Racist and Anti-Colonial Education with 1st Gen Korean American Seniors in a Time of Asian Hate and Racialized Dread,” “An Ambivalent Magic: Undocumented Asian Immigrants and Racialized “Illegality” in the US Imperial Project,” “Divergent Paths toward Militarized Citizenship: The “Unending” Cold War, Transnational Space of Citizenship, and International Korean Male Students,” and “Dismantling the “Undocumented Korean Box”: Race, Education, and Undocumented Korean Immigrant Activism for Liberation.”
Associate Research Fellow
YOO, Minji
- Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute
- Yeonghak-gwan, room 204
- 3277-3613
- minji.yoo83@gmail.com
- Minji Yoo obtained a doctoral degree in a study on state formation in Timor-Leste, where various authorities are at play at the everyday level. She generally focuses on phenomena resulting from the interaction between the global and local with a local-centric perspective, particularly targeting the Southeast Asian area. She conducted field research in various Southeast Asian countries such as East Timor, Thailand, and Vietnam. Recently, her research has concentrated on the impact of South Korean FDI in northern Vietnam, specifically examining the socio-economic changes in local communities and the proliferation of service industries targeting Korean men in the region. Her research includes "Unpacking the hidden state via everyday stateness in Timor-Leste (2023)", "The local upgrading and downgrading: via interactions of the local and transnational corporations in Bac Ninh, Vietnam (2022)", and "Hybrid state formation in Timor-Leste (2017)".
HWANG, Jisung
- Gender Studies and Disability Studies
- Yeonghak-gwan, room 204
- 3277-3613
- livetdans@gmail.com
- Jisung Hwang, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher in Asian Center for Women’s Studies, Ewha Womans University. Hwang holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Program in Gender Studies (2023) with concentrations in feminist disability studies and social history from Seoul National University.
KIM, Jihyun
- Feminist International Relation
- Yeonghak-gwan, room 204
- 3277-3613
- kim.jihyun@ewha.ac.kr
- Jihyun Kim earned a PhD from the Department of Goverment and International Relations at The University of Sydney. Her PhD research examines how key development actors – notably the Thai government, the UN Women Regional Office for Asia-Pacific (UN Women ROAP), and Thai NGOs – construct discourses about female migrants and associated subjects in Thailand, and how these discourses create complicit relations and specific political affordances. Her research interests include postcolonial feminist theory, care ethics, gender and development, migration, and Southeast Asia. Currently, she is researching the discursive categorization of refugees, victims of trafficking, and migrants in Korean society, as well as how gendered and racialized masculinity is constructed between Korea and migrant-sending states. Her co-authored article includes "Care Ethics and Critical Friends: Feminist Research Practice as an Insider/Outsider(2024)".
Researcher
KIM, Sohyun
- Women's Studies
- Yeonghak-gwan, room 203
- 3277-4344
- sohyunn@ewha.ac.kr
- Sohyun Kim holds an M.A. in the Department of Women's Studies from Ewha Womans University. Her research examines how South Korea's idealized family model was constructed in opposition to North Korean family structures, which were positioned as the 'dangerous other' under anti-communist ideology during the Cold War era. Her current scholarly interests focus on the production of modern knowledge surrounding family and sexuality, with particular emphasis on how Korea's geopolitical context intersects with and shapes these discourses.
KIM, Jieun
- Women's Studies
- Yeonghak-gwan, room 203
- 3277-4344
- bnkj0408@gmail.com / jieun.k@ewha.ac.kr
- Jieun Kim holds an M.A. in the Department of Women’s Studies from Ewha Womans University. Her research interests encompass queer feminism, trans-exclusionary radical feminism, online discourses, social movements, politics of hatred, and globalized conservative shifts. Currently, she focuses on critically examining the construction of an anti-trans discourse under the guise of feminist rhetoric in South Korea. She aims to highlight the interconnectedness of discriminatory movements in the name of women’s rights across borders, emphasizing their specific international dynamics.
Jeong, Minjoo
- Women's Studies
- Yeonghak-gwan, room 203
- 3277-4344
- elephantrampant@ewha.ac.kr
- Minjoo Jeong holds an M.A. in the Department of Women's Studies from Ewha Womans University. She conducted research on the gendered formalization of food delivery platform labor in South Korea. Her recent research centers on gendered and racialized stratification of WHS(Work Health and Safety), driven by a differential regulation history of working bodies in South Korea. She has expanded her research interests to transnationalism and intersectionality, focusing on gender, race/ethnicity, and migration, particularly the WHS of migrant workers in South Korea.
