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Skidmore College
Anthropology Department
Joowon Park

Joowon Park, Associate Chair

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Director of the Asian Studies Program

Office: Bolton 251
Tel. (518) 580-5287
E-mail: park@skidmore.edu
Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1-2 p.m.

 

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., American University
  • MA, American University
  • BA, DePauw University

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

  • Violence; Migration; Refugee Resettlement, Politics of humanitarianism; Political anthropology

BOOK MONOGRAPH

  • 2022. . Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Park, Joowon. 2024. "" Asian Journal of Peacebuilding 12(1): 35-51.
  • Park, Joowon. 2020. "" Anthropology and Humanism 45(1): 25-42.
  • Park, Joowon. 2016. 鈥.鈥 Asian Ethnicity 17(2): 214-227
  • Park, Joowon. 2012. 鈥淚 Can Send That Money To My Mother鈥: Remittances, Telecommunication, and Post-Migration Strategies of North Koreans. Anthropology News 53(2):11

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

  • ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellowship Grant, 2023
  • Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Research Travel Grant, 2019
  • Social Science Research Council Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop Fellow, 2014
  • National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, 2013
  • Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, 2013
  • Explorers Club Washington Group Exploration and Field Research Grant, 2012
  • Robyn Rafferty Mathias Grant for International Research, 2011, 2012

COURSES

  • AN 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (cross-listed with Internationl Affairs)
  • AN 224: Perspectives from Asia (cross-listed with Asian Studies and International Affairs)
  • AN 236: Migration and Diaspora (Bridge Experience course; cross-listed with Asian Studies and International Affairs)
  • AN 270: History of Anthropological Thought
  • AN 307: Power and Violence (cross-listed with International Affairs)
  • Scribner Seminar: K-Pop: Unpacking Korean Pop Culture in a Global World
  • Scribner Seminar: Riddles of Culture

FUN FACTS

  • Dr. Park threw the ceremonial first pitch at the Korean Baseball World Series in 2016.
  • He is from Machakos, Kenya