Sharon J. Yoon
Assistant Professor of Korean Studies 2162 Jenkins Nanovic Hall
Keough School of Global Affairs Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5677
University of Notre Dame syoon5@nd.edu
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2020— Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
2015-2020 Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Department of Korean Studies, Ewha Womans University
2013-2015 Japan Society for the Promotion of SciencePostdoctoral Fellow, Graduate
School of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology, Osaka University
2012-2013 Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Sociology, Princeton University, 2013
Dissertation: “Re-Conceptualizing the Enclave in an Era of Transnationalism: Ethnic Solidarity and Upward Mobility in the Korean Enclave in Beijing” (chair: Gilbert Rozman)
B.A., Asian and Middle-Eastern Literature and Languages, Dartmouth College, 2004 Honors: Magna Cum-Laude; Senior Fellow (high honors); Presidential Scholar; Wing-Tsit Chan Thesis Prize for best thesis in Asian Studies.
INTENSIVE LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
2008-2009 Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Stanford University Yokohama, Japan (5th year level)
1999 Princeton-in-Beijing, Princeton University
Beijing, China (2nd year level)
2002 Princeton-in-Beijing, Princeton University
Beijing, China (5th year level)
2001 Princeton-in-Ishikawa, Princeton University
Kanazawa, Japan (2nd year level)
AREAS OF INTEREST
Global and Transnational Sociology; Race, Ethnicity, and Migration; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Culture; Qualitative and Ethnographic Methods; East Asia.
BOOKS
Yoon, Sharon J. (2021). The Cost of Belonging: AnEthnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown. Oxford University Press.
Reviewed by: Journal of Contemporary Asia, Pacific Affairs, Journal of Asian Studies
In Preparation
Activism in the Digital Age: The Fight Against Hate in Osaka’s Koreatown.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Udor, Rita and Sharon J. Yoon. (2021). “The Effects of Colorism on Migrants’ Adaptation in Asia: The Racial Exclusion of African Migrants in South Korea’s ‘Multicultural’ Society.”Ethnic and Racial Studies. (online first, equal co-authorship, Impact Factor 3.211)
Yoon, Sharon J. and Yuki Asahina. (2021). “The Rise and Fall of Japan’s New Far-Right: How Anti-Korean
Discourses Went Mainstream.” Politics & Society, 49(3): 363-402. (Impact Factor 3.089)
Yoon, Sharon J. (2019). “The Organisational Culture of the Chaebol and Workplace Inequality: Stunted Mobilities of Korean Chinese Employees in a Beijing Subsidiary.” Journal of Contemporary Asia, 49(1): 78-103. (Impact Factor 3.261)
Yoon, Sharon J. (2017). “Cultural Brokerage and Transnational Entrepreneurship: South Korean and Korean Chinese Entrepreneurs in Beijing's Koreatown.” Korea Observer, 48(2), 387-423. (Impact Factor 0.321)
Yoon, Sharon J. (2016). “Colorless Racialization: Analyzing the Discrimination of ‘Oldcomer’ Koreans in Japan and Chinese in Korea from an American Sociological Perspective.” Korean Journal of Sociology, 50(6): 73-99. (Korean Citation Index Impact Factor 2.74)
Yoon, Sharon J. (2013). “Mobilizing Ethnic Resources in the Transnational Enclave: Ethnic Solidarity as a Mechanism for Mobility in the Korean Church in Beijing.” International Journal of Sociology, 43(3): 29-54. (Impact Factor 0.9)
Under Review
Yoon, Sharon J. and Rita Udor. “The Racialization of Migrant Masculinity: An Intersectional Analysis of African Undocumented Workers in South Korea.”
Yoon, Sharon J. “Place in the Age of Digital Activism: The Emotional, Organizational, and Temporal Resources in Osaka’s Postcolonial Ghetto.”
In Preparation
Yoon, Sharon J. “Normalizing New Far-Right Beliefs: Japanese IT Workers and Online Xenophobia.”
Yoon, Sharon J. “Identity Politics, Place, and Counter-Activism: Analyzing Podcasts and YouTube Videos of Anti-Racist Activists in Japan.”
POLICY PAPERS & BOOK CHAPTERS
Yoon, Sharon J. (2020). The Split Enclave: Transnationalism and Co-Ethnic Conflict in Beijing's Koreatown.
In Koreatowns: Exploring the Economics, Politics, and Identities of Korean Spatial Formation, edited by Kim, Soo Mee, Jiwon Kim, and Stephen Suh. London: Lexington Books.
Yoon, Sharon J. (2019). “Understanding the Rise of Japan’s Net-Right.”Special Forum: Responses to the Breakdown in ROK-Japan Relations: South Korea, ASAN Forum, Vol. 7, No. 6.
Yoon, Sharon J. (2012). “A Cognitive Approach to Ethnic Identity Construction in the Korean Enclave in Beijing.” Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies, Vol. 23: 171-184.
BOOK REVIEWS
Yoon, Sharon J. (2019). Homing: An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration, by Ji Yeon Jo. University of Hawai’i Press, 2018.Acta Koreana, Vol. 22, No. 1: 209-211.
Yoon, Sharon J. (2017). Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea, by Hyun Ok Park. Columbia University Press, 2015. Pacific Affairs, Vol. 90, No. 2: 376-378.
Yoon, Sharon J. (2015). A Family of No Prominence:The Descendants of Pak Tokhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea, by Eugene Park. Stanford University Press, 2014. Institute of Korean Culture, Vol. 29: 313-316.
Yoon, Sharon J. (2015). The Japan-South Korean Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States by Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder. Columbia University Press, 2015. ASAN Forum, June.
EXTRACURRICULAR PUBLICATIONS
Yoon, Sharon J. (2020). “The Elusive Promise of Migration: The Experiences of South Korean BusinessOwners in Beijing.” Critical Asian Studies Commentary.
Yoon, Sharon J. (2020). “A Farewell Letter.” Professor Column, Ewha Voice.
Yoon, Sharon J. (2017).「弱者の結束力」在日総合誌、航路舎、四号: 99-105. The Binding Powers of Fragility; an essay written for a Korean Japanese activist journal based in the Korean ghetto in the Ikuno-ward, Osaka City].
RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
External Grants
National Endowment for the Humanities-Japan US Friendship Commission (NEH-JUSFC), 2022-2023 ($60,000)
Northeast Asia Council (Short-Term Research Grant for Korea), 2021 ($2,346) (declined due to Covid)
Korea Foundation, Korean Studies Junior Faculty Workshop Grant (in partnership with the Social Science
Research Council), 2014 (Travel and lodging to Monterey, CA.)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)(in partnership with the Social Science Research Council),
Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2013-2015 (¥6,044,000/yr.)
Northeast Asia Council, Korea Workshop and Conference Grant, 2013 ($5,000)
Japan Foundation, Doctoral Fellowship, 2013 (declined)
Korea Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-2013 ($40,000)
Harvard University, Korea-Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship (sponsorship), 2012-2013 (declined)
National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2011-2012, ($9,000)
National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2006-2012 ($30,000 + tuition/yr.)
Blakemore-Freeman Foundation, Japanese Language Fellowship, 2008-2009 ($30,000 + tuition)
Internal Grants
Justice in Asia, Liu Institute of Asia and Asian Studies,University of Notre Dame, 2021 ($5,000)
Global Policy Initiative, University of Notre Dame,2021 ($5,000)
Resilience and Recovery, University of Notre Dame,2020 ($9,020)
New Faculty Research Grant, Ewha Womans University, 2015 ($15,000)
Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania, 2013 ($1,500)
Global Network for Inequality, Princeton University, 2010 ($4,000)
Princeton Institute International Regional Studies, Princeton University, 2008 ($5,000)
Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University, 2008 ($1,000)
East Asian Studies, Princeton University, 2008 ($3,000)
Senior Fellowship Research Grant, Dartmouth College, 2004 ($25,000)
Dartmouth General Fellowship, Dartmouth College, 2005 ($3,000)
John Sloan Dickey Center of International Understanding, Dartmouth College, 2004 ($4,000)
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
Selected Refereed Talks
2022 “The Racialization of Black Migrant Masculinity: African Men Working in South Korea’s 3-D Labor Market.” Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu.
2021 “The Rise and Fall of Japan’s New Far-Right: How Anti-Korean Discourses Went Mainstream” (w/Yuki Asahina). American Sociological Association, Section on Asia and Asian America, Virtual Annual Meeting.
2019 “Counter-activism in Osaka’s Korean Enclave.” World Congress for Korean Politics and Society, Konkuk University, Seoul.
“Harnessing Social Media Activism within the Ethnic Enclave: The Success of Anti-Hate Speech Protests in Osaka’s Korean Ghetto.” Association for Asian Studies, Denver.
“Mobilizing against Hate: Ideological Struggles and the Efficacy of the Counter-Racist Movement in Osaka’s Koreatown.” Hate Speech in Asia and Europe: A Comparative Approach, Second International Workshop, Paris Diderot University, Paris.
2018 “‘Gohyang’ Politics and South Korean Discrimination of Korean Chinese Minorities.” (Korean representative for the Korean Sociological Association-Japanese Sociological Society Joint Panel) Japanese Sociological Society, Konan University, Kobe.
2016 “Hate Speech and the Ethnic Enclave: The Case of the Koreans in Japan.”Korean Sociological Association, Ewha Womans University, Seoul.
2014 “Transnationalism and the Decline of Ethnic Consciousness:Interactions between Korean newcomers and oldcomers in Osaka and Beijing.” International Sociological Association, Yokohama.
“Cultivating Ethnic Solidarity in the Transnational Enclave: Co-Ethnic Relations between South Korean ‘Newcomers’ and Korean-Japanese/Korean-Chinese ‘Oldcomers’ in the Korean Enclaves in Osaka and Beijing.” Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia.
2013 “The Relevance of Guanxi in Post-Reform PRC: The Case of Korean Entrepreneurs in
Beijing.” Association for Asian Studies, San Diego.
2012 “Internal Conflicts and Distrust in the Korean Enclave in Beijing.” Association for Asian Studies, Toronto.
2011 “Internal Conflicts and Distrust in the Korean Enclave.” Mid-Atlantic Region for Association for Asian Studies, Princeton University, Princeton.
“American Academic Perspectives on Research on the Koreans in China.” The Korean Diaspora During an Era of Northeast Asian Harmony, The Korean Chinese Research Institute, Ryukoku University, Kyoto.
2010 “Inter-generational Conflict: the Korean Ethnic Enclave in Beijing.” Labor Migration and Integration, Social Science Research Council and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.
2005 “Consuming Minority Identity: Comparing Koreans in Japan and Chinese in Korea.” New
England Chapter of the Association for Asian Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover.
2004 “In Search of a Home Away from Home: Ethno-national Identities of Koreans in Japan and
Chinese in Korea.” Humanities Research Center Conference on Migrations and Identities, Australian National University, Canberra.
Invited Talks
2022 “Place in the Age of Digital Activism: The Emotional, Organizational, and Temporal Resources in Osaka’s Postcolonial Ghetto.” Contemporary Zainichi Experience Symposium, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University.
The Cost of Belonging, Book Talk. Nam Center for Korean Studies. Winter 2022 Colloquium Series. University of Michigan.
2021 State Responses to COVID in Comparative Perspective. Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Processing Anti-Asian Violence: A Roundtable Discussion on the Atlanta Shootings. Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Anti-Asian Violence in South Bend and Indiana: Understanding and Combating
Discrimination in Our Communities. Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame.
The Cost of Belonging, Book Talk. Summer Colloquium Series. Department of Sociology, Yonsei University, Seoul.
The Cost of Belonging, Book Talk. Scottish Center for Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series. University of Edinburgh.
The Cost of Belonging, Book Talk. KORE, York Centre for Asian Research, and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. University of Toronto.
The Cost of Belonging, Book Talk. Department of Asian American Studies Graduate Seminar, University of California, Los Angeles.
2020 The Cost of Belonging, Book Talk. Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, University of Notre Dame, Virtual Panel Discussion.
2019 Migration and Commerce in East Asia Symposium, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.
“The Rise of Japan’s New Far-Right.”Illiberal Politics in Asia Symposium, University of Toronto.
“Organizational Culture of the Chaebol and Stunted Mobilities of Korean Chinese Minorities.” Institute for Korean Studies Annual Conference, Korean Economic Institute of America, University of Indiana.
2018 Book Talk Panelist for Hyun-Ok Park’s Capitalist Unconscious, Department of Sociology, Yonsei University.
Creative Social Science Academy, Ewha Womans University, Seoul.
2017 University of Toronto Korea Summer FieldworkProgram, Yonsei University, Seoul.
Hello Diaspora Series, Seoul Municipal Government NPO Support Fund, Seoul.
2016 “The Counter-Movement Against Hate in Osaka’s Koreatown,” Sheffield University,
Sheffield.
“Under the Façade of Multicultural Korea.” Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
Hongik University Summer Fieldwork Program in Osaka’s Korean Enclave, Japanese Anglican Church. Ikuno Center NPO, Osaka.
2015 One Korea Festival Symposium, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.
Dartmouth-Keio Intellectual Exchange Event, Keio University, Tokyo.
Department of Sociology, Seoul National University, Seoul.
2014 Kyoto Lecture Series, Kyoto University, Kyoto.
2013 James Joo Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies Symposium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
2012 Korean Studies Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia.
Culture and Inequality Workshop, Princeton University, Princeton.
2011 Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University, Princeton.
Harvard China Sociology Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge.
2005 Monterey Institute of International Relations, Seoul.
Organized Panels and Symposium
2022 “Negotiating Blackness from Above and Below: Analyzing the Legality, Mobility, and
Representation of Black Bodies in Asia.” Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, HI
2013 “Koreans in China since the 1990s.” James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies Symposium. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
PODCASTS
The New Books Network, Episode 363 https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-cost-of-belonging
Korea 24 KBS World Radio, 2020.04.01 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/korea-24-2020-04-01/id1282283604?i=1000470178371
The Korea Now Podcast, Episode #63 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QulhLLh-vVI
Korea and the World, Episode #70 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5VWQrlTv6o
tbs eFM A Little of a Lot, Episode #0923 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tbs-efm-a-little-of-a-lot/id1217297981
TEACHING
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Masters of Global Affairs(2022-current)
Race in Asia
Undergraduate Courses (2020-current)
Korean Society and Politics (dual-mode hybrid)
Media and Politics in East Asia
Contemporary Korean Culture (University Writing Seminar)
Globalization and Korean Migration
Connecting Asia: Pasts, Presents, Futures (Liu Institute, Core Curriculum)
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Graduate Seminars (2015-2020)
Qualitative Research Methods
Korean Culture and Society
Globalization and Korean Migration
Introduction to Korean Culture The Korean Diaspora
Undergraduate Courses (2015-2020)
The Korean Diaspora
Understanding Korean Society
Introduction to Korean Culture
Globalization and Korean Migration
Online Courses
Media and Journalism in Contemporary South Korea [for the Free University of Berlin (Spring 2019)]
Globalization and Korean Society [for Bonn University (Spring 2016)]
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Introduction to Sociology [Preceptor for Mitchell Duneier and Paul Starr (Fall 2010)]
Race, Class and Intelligence in America [Preceptor for Howard Taylor (Spring 2007)]
Japanese Society and Culture [Preceptor for Amy Borovoy (Fall 2007)]
American Society and Politics [Preceptor for Paul Starr (Fall 2006)]
Yanbian University of Science and Technology, Yanji, China
Intermediate Level English Conversation [Undergraduate language program (Summer 2005)]
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Beginner Level Chinese [Drill Instructor for Professor Crispin Williams (2002-2004)]
Beginner Level Japanese [Drill Instructor for Professor Mayumi Ishida (2002-2004)]
SERVICE
Keough School of Global Affairs
● Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
● Racial Justice and Conflict Transformation Search Committee
● Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Lecture Series Co-Organizer
● Dignity and Development Conference, Panel Organizer
Association of Korean Sociologists in America
● Mentorship Program
● Race and Ethnicity Section Virtual Coffee Hour ● Virtual Co-working Organizer
LANGUAGES
English: native
Korean: fluent
Japanese: fluent
Chinese: advanced level speaking and literacy
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Korean Sociological Association
Korean Political Science Association
Association of Korean Sociologists in America
American Sociological Association
Association for Asian Studies
International Sociological Association
REFERENCES
Gilbert Rozman, Princeton University Douglas Massey, Princeton University
Professor Emeritus, Sociology Professor, Sociology
609-560-0547 (cell) 609-258-4949 (office)
grozman@exchange.princeton.edu dmassey@princeton.edu
Jennifer Chun, University of California Los Angeles Scott North, Osaka University
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies Professor Emeritus, Sociology
jjchun@asianam.ucla.edu north@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp
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