NEAC Korean Studies Grants

Spring 2011 Grant Awards

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The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 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/Outside North America

1. Sookja Cho, Arizona State University, “Liang-Zhu Narrative and Korean Local Literary Culture”
2. Yukyong Choe, University of California-Berkeley School of Law, “Political Changes and the Judicial Reform Legislative System: Focusing on the Legal Professional Training System”
3. Inhye Kang, McGill University, “Re-contextualization of Korea: The Visual Technologies of Japanese Empire”
4. Joan Kee, University of Michigan, “Contemporaneity in Early Colonial Korea: The Self Portraits of Ko Hui-dong”
5. Chung-kang Kim, University of Colorado-Boulder, “Marketing Koreanness: Popular Cultural Industry in Colonial Korea”
6. Nami Kim, Spelman College, “Islamophobia in Korean Evangelical Christianity”
7. Seok-Won Lee, Fort Lewis College, “Rationalizing the Orient, Envisioning the East Asian Community: Japanese Intellectuals’ Writing of Korean History and Culture in the Interwar Period”
8. Sohl Lee, University of Rochester, “Between National Trauma and Democratic Future: The Bluepring of “Post-Minjung” Architecture in South Korea”
9. Yoonkyung Lee, SUNY-Binghamton, “Political Parties or Social Movements? The Dynamics of Democratic Representation in Korea”
10. J.P. Park, University of Colorado-Boulder, “A New Way of Doing Business: Diversity, Identity and Originality in Contemporary Korean Art”
11. Jin-kyung Park, Global Asia Studies and Women & Gender Studies Institute, “Corporeal Colonialism: Medicine, Women’s Disease, and Race in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945”
12. Deborah Solomon, Otterbein University, “The Empire is the Enemy of the East: 1940s Korean Student Protest Rhetoric and the Mobilization for Total War”

Research Travel within North America

1. Sang-ho Ro, Princeton University, “The Last Aristocrats of Choson Dynasty: the Yohung Mins and their Public Activities”
2. Aniko Varga, University of Chicago, “Nation, State, and their Traitors: Collaboration Discourse in Post-Liberation North and South Korea 1945–1950”

Workshops and Small Conferences

1. Henry Em, New York University, “The (Unending) Korean War” Conference
2. Keum Hyun Han, University of Colorado-Boulder, “Symposium on Contemporary Korean Art and Culture”