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Institute for Corean-American Studies
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Kyeyoung Park
Biographic Sketch
Kyeyoung Park is a visiting assistant professor of Anthropology at
Princeton University and an assistant professor of Anthropology and Asian
American Studies at UCLA. She attended Seoul National University in Korea
before coming to the United States for graduate studies the City University
of New York, Graduate Center where she obtained her Ph.D. Her book, The
Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City
(1997), by Cornell University Press, is the winner of the 1998 Outstanding
Book Award in History and Social Science from the Association for Asian
American Studies. In 1997-98, she was a fellow at the Russell Sage
Foundation. Currently, she is engaged in completing a second book about
racial relations/meanings among Korean, African, and Latino Americans before
and after the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising. She is also co-editing a special
issue of Amerasia Journal on Second Generation Asian Americans. She
has also published many articles in journals such as American
Anthropologist, Urban Anthropology, and Amerasia Journal. Her research
interests include theories of culture and forms of social inequality such as
race, class, and gender.
In addition, she has been a vice-president of the Korean American Association
of Flushing and coordinator of Korean American Women for Action, a board
member for New York Asian Women's Center, Coalition Against Military Sexual
Slavery by Japan (CAMSS) and Women's Organization Reaching Koreans (WORK).
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This page last updated 11/3/2010 jdb
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