YUK Joowon
육주원

Joowon Yuk is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Minorities and Human Rights at Kyungpook National University, South Korea. She earned her BA from Seoul National University and completed her MA and PhD at the University of Warwick, UK. Prior to her current position, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the National University of Singapore. Her research explores the cultural politics of race, gender, and class, with interests in migration, citizenship, and the arts. She is also deeply engaged in social justice work, collaborating with civil society organizations on a range of issues. One of her recent projects is ethnographic action research on the politics of belonging and bordering related to the Daegu Mosque conflict. At the Harvard-Yenching Institute, her research will explore the entanglement of race and religion in Korea, with a particular focus on the Christian influence of the early 20th-century colonial period, in order to understand the race-religion interplay and theorize race from a Korean studies perspective.