Expertise

Trained as a cultural anthropologist, he specializes in the Asia Pacific region, and his research has focused on family, migration and education; gender, culture and cinema; globalization and inequality; and household and community ethnography. The courses that he has taught include: Contemporary South Korean Society; Seminar on Comparative Politics; Divided Korea; Cinema and Society in Contemporary Korea; Korean Society through Literature and Film; and Introduction to Anthropology.

 

 

Communities
Language Studies, Chinese, Japanese
Degrees
PhD, Graduate Center, The City University of New York, Anthropology, 1991
MA, Columbia University, Anthropology, 1982
BA, University of Maryland, Anthropology, 1975