She Has Been a Mansfield Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Program Scholar

Erin Aeran Chung is the Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics in the Department of Political Science, the Director of the East Asian Studies Program, and the Co- Director of the Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC) Program at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She specializes in East Asian political economy, international migration, and comparative racial politics.

She has been a Mansfield Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Program Scholar (2012-2014), an SSRC Abe Fellow at the University of Tokyo (2009-2010) and Korea University (2010), an advanced research fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on U.S.-Japan Relation (2003-2004), and a Japan Foundation fellow at Saitama University (1998-1999). In 2015, she was selected as a Mansfield Foundation Japan-Korea Working Group Fellow. Her first book, Immigration and Citizenship in Japan, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010 and translated into Japanese and published by Akashi Shoten in 2012. She is currently completing her second book, Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies, under contract at Cambridge University Press.

In addition to her second book project, Professor Chung has been working on a pilot research project on “Ethnic Democracies” that compares immigration and citizenship policies, immigrant advocacy, and noncitizen political participation in industrial societies with descent-based citizenship policies. Since September 2013, her research team has been compiling and coding data on immigration and citizenship policies in 40 countries across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, North America, and Latin America. She is additionally working on her third book manuscript tentatively titled, Citizenship, Social Capital, and Racial Politics in the Korean Diaspora, which analyzes the relationship between nationality and transnational ethnic identity through a comparison of Korean diasporic communities in the United States, Japan, China, and the Philippines.

As Director of the East Asian Studies (EAS) Program at Hopkins, Professor Chung has implemented new initiatives for expanding the program. She is the Project Director of the three- year Japan Foundation Institutional Project Support Program in Japanese Studies Grant, “Building a Vital Foundation in Japanese Studies at the Johns Hopkins University,” which is providing seed money for a new tenure-track faculty position in Japanese history along with funding for a dedicated graduate student fellowship and a post-doctoral fellowship in Japanese Studies, Study Abroad and research support, Japanese language and Japanese Studies library holdings, and expansion of the EAS speaker series. The grant commenced in July 2015. She was awarded the 2015-2016 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service from the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University.