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Core Faculty

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Sungdai Cho

Director, Center for Korean Studies; Professor, Korean and Linguistics; Professor, Korean and Linguistics; Graduate Director

Center for Korean Studies; Linguistics Program; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
LS G667
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Affilliated Faculty

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Jeffner M. Allen

Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title

Africana Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Cultural Imaginaries and Representation
  • Trans-Genre Writing
  • Feminist and Lesbian Studies
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Diasporic Literatures
  • Water and Environmental Studies
  • Transdisciplinary Studies
  • Multi-Platform Works
  • 20th and 21st Century European Philosophy
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John Cheng

Associate Professor

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
LS G668

Research Interests

  • comparative transnational and intersectional studies of race; gender; and nation
  • popular culture; media; and technology
  • the history of earth; life; and human sciences and of computing
  • historiography and critical theory

Teaching Interests

  • Asian American history
  • race and popular culture
  • comparative transnational racial formation
  • historical methods and documentary history
  • digital culture and literacy
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Suk-Young (John) Kang

Associate Professor

CCPA Social Work
DC 347

Research Interests

  • Depression and health status among Asian immigrant elders
  • Family caregiving
  • Social justice for immigrants and refugees
  • Depression among Asian Americans
  • Technology and Aging
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Hoe Kyeung Kim

Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title

Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Teacher education and assessment
  • L2 writing
  • Bilingual and Multilingualism
  • Korean L2 learning
  • Educational technology
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Yea Hee Ko

Assistant Professor of Strategy

School of Management
AA 248B

Research Interests

  • Employee mobility
  • Strategic human resource management
  • Knowledge work
  • Remote work

Teaching Interests

  • Strategic human resource management
  • Negotiation
  • Compensation
  • Strategy
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Hyejung Kim

Assistant Professor

Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 243G

Research Interests

  • Intersectionality of multi-layered vulnerabilities including dis/abilities
  • Educational equity
  • Students with autism and other neurodevelopmental dis/abilities
  • Postsecondary transition from high school to adulthood
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Sung-Joo Lim

Assistant Professor

Psychology
S4 G10

Research Interests

  • Auditory cognitive neuroscience
  • Human speech perception and communication
  • Auditory attention, working memory, and category learning
  • Neural dynamics and functional networks through fMRI and EEG
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Thomas M. Wilson

Professor

Anthropology
S1 204

Research Interests

  • National identity and nationalism; international borders and frontiers; ethnicity and ethnic conflict; political ritual and symbolism; commercial farming; agrarian economic strategies and politics; public policy and interest group formation; local government and political parties; cinema and popular culture; European integration; the borderlands of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hungary, Canada, and the United States.
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Yi Wang

Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title

History; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Late Imperial China
  • borderlands
  • migration
  • nationalism
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