Kwang-Kyoon Yeo | the Mershon Center for International Security Studies

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Faculty Kwang-Kyoon Yeo Fellows and Visitors Post-Doctoral Fellow at the OSU East Asian Studies Center Staff 220B Mershon Center 614.292.4163

[email protected] Kwang-Kyoon Yeo Visiting Scholar Education East Asian Studies Center Ph.D., Anthropology, Columbia University (2007) M. Phil., Anthropology, Columbia University (2002) M.A., Anthropology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa (1997)

Research Project Yeo is using his Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the OSU East Asian Studies Center to turn his Ph.D. dissertation into a book. The project is a comparative study of Korean transnational communities, and examines the recent rise of “Koreatown” in Beijing in historical and cultural context with earlier immigrant communities founded in Osaka and Los Angeles.

During his stay, Yeo also plans to develop undergraduate and graduate level courses on “outsiders” in urban China, and a course using East Asia’s transnational migration as a window into understand the colonial and post-colonial history of the region.

After his stay at Ohio State, Yeo will continue ethnographic study of East Asian transnational communities with research on North Korean refugees to South Korea.

Selected Publications (In progress) “'Koreatown’ in Beijing: Korean Diaspora and the Changing Local Politics in China” (Korean and Korean American Studies Bulletin, 2008)

Awards Research Grant (Doorae Research Institute) The Julie How Fellowship in Modern Chinese Studies (Columbia University) Pre-dissertation Training Grant (Weatherhead Foundation)

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Phone: 614.292.1681 Fax: 614.292.2407 Email: [email protected]

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