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NEAC Korean Studies Grants

Fall 2011 Grant Awards

The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) is pleased to announce the recipients of its Fall 2011 Korean Studies Grants. The NEAC Korean Studies grant programs are made possible by the generous support of the Korea Foundation.

Short-Term Research Travel to Korea

  1. Ronald Kalafsky, University of Tennessee, “South Korea and the Changing Geographies of Machine Tool Exports”
  2. Jung-eun Lee, University of Southern California, “Filling the Gaps: the Role Of NGOs in North Koreans’ Social Integration in South Korea”
  3. Hye-ri Oh, Binghamton University, SUNY, “Photography and Criticism in Korea: Modernity, National Identity and the Conception of Photography from Late Chosŏn Dynastic Period to Japanese Colonialism”
  4. Yoonjung Seo, University of California-Los Angeles, “The Propagandistic Role of Art in the Late Chosŏn Court”
  5. Suyoung Son, University of Colorado-Boulder, “Text-in-Motion: Transmission of the Caizi jiaren Fiction in Chosŏn Korea”

Research Travel within North America

  1. Shota Ogawa, University of Rochester, “A Cinematic History of Zainichi Koreans”
  2. Jamie Jungmin Yoo, Harvard University, “Recreating Literary Canons and Collaborative Circles: Book Culture, Textual Networks and Poetry Image Making Practices in late Chosŏn Korea”

Korea Workshops and Conferences

  1. Yung-Hee Kim, University of Hawaii at Manoa, “Tapestry of Modernity: Urban Cultural Landscapes of Colonial Korea, 1920s-1930s-An International Conference”

AAS Annual Conference Travel Grants for Graduate Students Presenting on Korea

  1. Chunghoon Shin, Binghamton University, “Seoul Modernisms: ‘Experimental’ Artists in the Era of Modernization of the Fatherland”

Distinguished Speakers Bureau on Korea

  1. Sharon Carstens on behalf of Portland State University, hosting Dr. Wayne Patterson’s public presentations of “Korean Picture Brides” and “Korea & China relations in the 1880s” on May 21–22, 2012
  2. Steven Ramey on behalf of the University of Alabama, hosting Dr. Laurel Kendall’s public presentation of “Exorcism, Death, and the Misrepresentation of Korean Shamanism” on March 28, 2012