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Current Academic and Research Appointments:

Professor of Anthropology, San Francisco State University (2006 -)

Associate Professor of Anthropology, San Francisco State University (1996 - 2006)

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, San Francisco State University (1994 - 1996)

ICAS Fellow, Institute for Corean-American Studies, 1998 -

Member of 8 professional societies.
Elected Treasurer of the East-Asian Section of the American Anthropological Association, 2001-2003.
Member of the Executive Board, Committee on Women in Asian Studies, 1995-97,
Association for Asian Studies

Papers and Publications:

Research papers presented at professional meetings: 30+;
Invited lectures at academic and research institutions: 30+;
Publications printed in books and journals: 40+
(including Women in Korean Politics [Boulder & Oxford: Westview Press, 1993],
2^nd ed. of The Chosen Women in Korean Politics: An Anthropological Study [New York: Praeger, 1991]).

Most Recent Publications:

The Korean "Comfort Women" Tragedy as Structural Violence. In Rethinking Historical Injustice in Northeast Asia: The Korean Experience, ed. G-W Shin, S-W Park, and D. Yang. Pp. 17-35. New York: Routledge.(2007a)

Sexual Enslavement and Reproductive Health: Narratives of Han among Korean Comfort Women Survivors. In Sexual Inequalities and Social Justice, ed. N. Teunis and G. Herdt. Pp. 86-104. University of California Press. (2007b)

In/Fertility among Korea’s "Comfort Women" Survivors: A Comparative Perspective. Women’s Studies International Forum 29 (1): 67-80.(2006)

Major Research and Professional Interests:

Topical: Gender, social stratification, sociocultural change, human rights, women in politics, life history, and culture in communication; from a historical-comparative perspective;
Geographical: Korea, East Asia with a comparative focus on Korea and Japan, Korean and other Asian immigrant communities in North America.

Current Research and Writing Project:

Military Comfort Women, an ethnographic analysis of the institution of military comfort women for the Japanese Imperial Army before and during the Pacific War and of the evolution and the international contribution of the movement for women's rights as human rights in South Korea.

Education

University of Hawaii-Manoa Ph.D. (Anthropology) 1987

University of Hawaii-Manoa. M.A. (Anthropology)

Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. B.A., summa cum laude (English)

Ph.D. Dissertation: "Korean Women in Politics (1945-1985): A Study of the Dynamics of Gender Role Change." (Fieldwork was funded by the National Science Foundation and the East-West Center.) (published by University Microfilms International, No. 8722393, in 1988)

Previous Academic and Research Appointments:

Grantee of the Fulbright Scholar Program, 2008

Visiting Scholar, Asian Center for Women’s Studies of Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, 2008

Grantee of the Research and Writing Initiative of
the Program on Global Security and Sustainability of
the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2000 - 2001

Affiliated Scholar, The Institute for Research on Women & Gender, Stanford University, 2000 - 2001

Senior Visiting Fellow, IIAS (International Institute for Asian Studies),
University of Leiden, The Netherlands, Fall 1998

Visiting Fellow, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan, 1997-98.

Adjunct Faculty member, M.A. Program in Korean Studies,
Intercultural Institute of California, 1996 - 98

Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
Stanford University, 1996-97


Special Research Associate, Institute for Cross-Cultural Studies,
Seoul National University, 1993-1994

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Southwest Texas State University,
San Marcos, Texas. (1991-94)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. (1990-91)

Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
University of Hawaii - Hilo, Hawaii. (1990)

Post-Doctoral Professional Associate, Institute of Culture and Communication,
East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. (1987)

Instructor of Anthropology, Ewha Womans University,
Seoul, Korea. (1985)

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