Faculty

Joowon Park 

Department Chair and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Asian Studies Program

Office: Bolton 278
Phone: 518-580-5287
Email: park@skidmore.edu
Office hours: Wednesday 9-10am; Thursday 12-1pm

 
Education:

• PhD, American University
• MA, American University
• BA, DePauw University

Research and teaching interests:

• Violence; Migration; Refugee Resettlement, Militarism and infrastructure; Political anthropology

Book monograph:

• 2023. Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

Selected publications:

• Park, Joowon. 2026. "Book Review of Borderland Dreams by June Hee Kwon." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 32.
• Park, Joowon. 2024. "Transnational Mothering and North Korean Women’s Strategies of Survival: Impact of China’s One-Child Policy and Hukou on Migration and Kinship." Asian Journal of Peacebuilding 12(1): 35-51.
• Park, Joowon. 2023. "The Invisible Violence in North Korean Migrants' Lives" UC Press Blog: Where Bright Minds Share Bold IDeas.
• Park, Joowon. 2020. "Voices from War’s Legacies: Reconciliation and Violence in Inter‐Korean Family Reunions." Anthropology and Humanism 45(1): 25-42.
• Park, Joowon. 2016. “The Gendered Contours of North Korean Migration: Sexualized Bodies and the Violence of Phenotypical Normalization in South Korea.” Asian Ethnicity 17(2): 214-227
• Park, Joowon. 2012. “'I Can Send That Money To My Mother': Remittances, Telecommunication, and Post-Migration Strategies of North Koreans." Anthropology News 53(2):11

Fellowships, grants, and awards:

• ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellowship Grant, 2023
• Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Research Travel Grant, 2019
• Social Science Research Council Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop Fellow, 2014
• National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, 2013
• Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, 2013
• Explorers Club Washington Group Exploration and Field Research Grant, 2012

Courses:

• AN 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (cross-listed with International Affairs)
• AN 224: Perspectives from Asia (Asian Studies gateway course and cross-listed with International Affairs)
• AN 236: Migration and Diaspora (Bridge Experience course; cross-listed with Asian Studies and International Affairs)
• AN 270: History of Anthropological Thought
• AN 307: Power and Violence (cross-listed with International Affairs)
• Scribner Seminar: K-Pop: Unpacking Korean Pop Culture in a Global World
• Scribner Seminar: Riddles of Culture