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Ji-Yeon Yuh, Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University where she teaches Asian American history, Asian diasporas, race, gender, and oral history. Her current projects include the Asian Diasporas Digital Archive, a digital oral history repository, and the oral history performance project 'Performing History: Documenting Enacting Asian American Midwest,' which is funded by the Humanities Walls consortium. Furthermore, she leads a seminar exploring life narratives of Vietnamese Korean Americans and is working on a book about Korean diasporas in China, Japan, and the United States. Ji-Yeon is actively engaged in community organizations and is a co-founder of the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea. She has also served as a board member for the Korea Policy Institute and as board president of KANWIN, a Korean American women's organization focused on domestic violence. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of migration, U.S. militarism, and the experiences of Asian diasporas.
Northwestern University • Evanston, IL
Teaches Asian American history and related fields.
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