Joowon Park

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Office: Bolton 251
Tel. (518) 580-5287
E-mail: park@skidmore.edu
Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2-3 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. Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Park, Joowon. 2020. "Voices from War’s Legacies: Reconciliation and Violence in Inter‐Korean Family Reunions." Anthropology and Humanism 45(1): 25-42.
• Park, Joowon. 2016. “The Gendered Contours of North Korean Migration: Sexualized Bodies and the Violence of Phenotypical Normalization in South Korea.” Asian Ethnicity 17(2): 214-227
• Park, Joowon. 2012. “I Can Send That Money To My Mother”: 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