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Sherry S. Yu

Sherry S. Yu is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, and the Faculty of Information. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Simon Fraser University. Her research explores multiculturalism, media, and social integration. She is the author of Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora: Korean Media in Vancouver and Los Angeles (2018, UBC Press) and the co-editor of Ethnic Media in the Digital Age (2019, Routledge). She...

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HW411, 1265 Military Trail; BL650, 140 St. George

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T 416-208-5177

sherrys.yu@utoronto.ca
Yoonkyung Lee

Yoonkyung Lee is a political sociologist specializing in labour politics, social movements, political representation, and the political economy of neoliberalism with a regional focus on East Asia. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from Duke University and was associate professor in Sociology and Asian and Asian-American Studies at State University of New York-Binghamton (2006-2016) before joining the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto in 2016. She has...

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Room 342, 725 Spadina Avenue

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T 416-978-4783

yoonkyung.lee@utoronto.ca
Kyoungrok Ko

Kyoungrok Ko (Ph.D., Ohio State University) is an associate professor, teaching stream in the department of East Asian Studies. He is currently coordinating the Korean language program and teaching Korean language courses. He is a former board member of the American Association of Teachers of Korean and a recipient of the 2016 UofT Faculty of Arts and Science Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award. He has also taught Korean language and literature...

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Room 14217, 130 St. George St.

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T 416-946-5115

kyoungrok.ko@utoronto.ca
Lisa Yoneyama

Lisa Yoneyama received her B.A. in German Language Studies and M.A. in International Relations at Sophia University, Tokyo, and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University, California. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, she taught Cultural Studies and U.S.-Japan Studies at University of California, San Diego, where she also served as Director of two academic units, Program for Japanese Studies and Critical Gender Studies Program. Her research interests have centered...

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RL 14215

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T 416-946-5800

lisa.yoneyama@utoronto.ca
Michelle Cho

Michelle Cho’s research and teaching focus on questions of collectivity and popular aesthetics in Korean film, media, and popular culture. She has published on Asian cinemas and Korean wave television, video, and pop music in such venues as Cinema Journal, the International Journal of Communication, The Korean Popular Culture Reader, and Asian Video Cultures (2019 “Best Edited Collection” Award winner, Society for Cinema and Media Studies). Following from her first book, Genre Worlds: Global Forms and Millennial South...

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Robarts Library 14217

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mh.cho@utoronto.ca
Andre Schmid

Andre Schmid is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies. Professor Schmid’s research and teaching focus on 19th and 20th century Korea and East Asia, as seen in the broader context of global, comparative history. He is currently working on a book about the early formation of North Korea after the devastation of the late colonial and Korean wars. This book focuses on the turn to the heteronormative nuclear...

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T 416-946-7226

andre.schmid@utoronto.ca
Hae Yeon Choo

Professor Hae Yeon Choo is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Korea. Her research centers on gender, citizenship, transnational migration, and urban sociology to examine global social inequality. In her empirical and theoretical work, she employs an intersectional approach to social inequalities, integrating gender, race, and class in her analyses. This approach provided the foundation for an article published in Sociological Theory in 2010 (with Myra Marx...

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Room 368, 725 Spadina Avenue

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T 905-828-3942

hy.choo@utoronto.ca
Eunjung Lee

Eunjung Lee, PhD, MSW, RSW is an Associate Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto in Canada since 2017. She has over 20 years clinical social work practice in various mental health fields serving marginalized populations with trauma and violence experiences. She has worked as a clinical supervisor, currently keeping a small clinical consultation. Dr. Lee is a psychotherapy-process researcher focusing on cross-cultural clinical practice...

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T (416) 978-5716

eunjung.lee@utoronto.ca
Yoonjung Kang

Yoonjung Kang (Ph.D., MIT) is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Language Studies at UTSC and the Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto. Her area of specialization is phonetics and phonology and its interface with sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Current research topics include loanword phonology, sound change, dialect variation and contact, heritage language phonetics and phonology, hyperspeech and sound change, speech rate and sound change,...

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MW314, UTSC

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T (416) 287-7172

yoonjung.kang@utoronto.ca

www.yoonjungkang.com
Janet Poole

Janet Poole (Ph.D., Columbia University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies. Her research focuses on modernism in mid-20th century Korea, the relationship between aesthetics and formations of colonialism and postcolonial national division, theories of translation and the practice of literary translation. She is author of When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea (Columbia University Press, 2014), winner of the 2015 Modernist...

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Room 14097, 130 St. George St.

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T 416-946-5105

janet.poole@utoronto.ca
Takashi Fujitani

A graduate of UC Berkeley, Professor Fujitani comes to the University of Toronto from the University of California, San Diego, where he was a professor of modern Japanese history for two decades. Professor Fujitani’s books include Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 1996), Perilous Memories: The Asia Pacific War(s) (Duke University Press, 2001), and Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans...

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Room 224N, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-8995

t.fujitani@utoronto.ca
Yujeong Choi

Yujeong Choi teaches various Korean language courses. She earned her PhD in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) at the University of Texas Arlington. Her research interests are in linguistics, language acquisition and use of technology to reinforce language learning. Her scholarly articles have appeared in various academic journals including Korean Language in America, Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language (외국어로서의 한국어교육), Applied Language Learning, and The Mental Lexicon. Education PhD, Linguistics, University at Texas at Arlington MA, Linguistics, University of...

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yujeong.choi@utoronto.ca
Julia Jihae Chun

Julia Jihae Chun is a Korean Studies Librarian in the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library. Before coming to University of Toronto, Julia held a shared position as a Catalog Librarian for Korean language resources at Duke University and Korean Studies Librarian at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). At the East Asian Library, she continues to build strong Korean Studies collections and works to acquire, catalogue, maintain,...

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julia.chun@utoronto.ca
Hana Kim

Hana Kim is the director of the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library at the University of Toronto and a former head of the Asian Library at the University of British Columbia. Before this, she was the Korean Studies Librarian at the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library for 11 years. She holds an M.L.I.S. in Library and Information Studies from McGill University and a Bachelor of Education from the...

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130 St George St, 8th Floor

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T 416-978-7690

hn.kim@utoronto.ca
Joseph Wong

Joseph Wong is the University of Toronto’s Vice-President, International. He is also the Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and a Professor of Political Science. He was the Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School from 2005 to 2014, and held the Canada Research Chair in health, democracy and development for a full two terms, 2006 to...

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Room 357S, 1 Devonshire Place

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T 416-946-7955

joe.wong@utoronto.ca

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Joshua Pilzer

Joshua D. Pilzer is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Faculty of Music, and an affiliate faculty of the Centre for the Study of Korea. His research focuses on the anthropology of music in modern Korea and Japan, women’s musical worlds, and the relationships between music, survival, memory, traumatic experience, marginalization, disability, public culture, mass media, social practice and identity. He is particularly interested in everyday musical practice as a...

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T 416-946-5159

joshua.pilzer@utoronto.ca
Ito Peng

Ito Peng is a Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the Department of Sociology, and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. She is also the Director of the Centre for Global Social Policy, University of Toronto. She teaches political sociology, specializing in family, gender, and demographic issues, migration and comparative social policy. She has written extensively on family and gender policies, labour market changes, and social...

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725 Spadina Avenue

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T 416 946 5902

itopeng@chass.utoronto.ca

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Michelle Cho

Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies
Centre for the Study of Korea

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Robarts Library 14217
Yujeong Choi

Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies
Centre for the Study of Korea

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Hae Yeon Choo

Director, Centre for the Study of Korea
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

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Room 368, 725 Spadina Avenue
Julia Jihae Chun

Korean Studies Librarian, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

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julia.chun@utoronto.ca
Takashi Fujitani

Director, Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies
Professor, Department of History

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Room 224N, 1 Devonshire Place
Eunice Jang

Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development (OISE)
Centre for the Study of Korea

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Yoonjung Kang

Professor, Department of Language Studies, UTSC
Graduate Coordinator, Department of Linguistics
Centre for the Study of Korea

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MW314, UTSC
Hana Kim

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130 St George St, 8th Floor
Kyoungrok Ko

Associate Professor, Korean Language, Department of East Asian Studies
Centre for the Study of Korea

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Room 14217, 130 St. George St.
Dasha Kuznetsova

Event Coordinator and Administrator, Asian Institute

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Eunjung Lee

Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work

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Yoonkyung Lee

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

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Room 342, 725 Spadina Avenue
Katherine MacIvor

Program Advisor and Communications Officer, Asian Institute

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Room 228N, 1 Devonshire Place
Ito Peng

Professor, Department of Sociology
Collaborative Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Asian Institute

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725 Spadina Avenue
Joshua Pilzer

Associate Professor, Faculty of Music
Centre for the Study of Korea

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Janet Poole

Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for the Study of Korea at the Asian Institute

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Room 14097, 130 St. George St.
Donald Rickerd

Research Fellow, Asian Institute

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Andre Schmid

Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies
Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

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Jesook Song

Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Room AP208, 19 Ursula Franklin Street
Joseph Wong

University of Toronto’s Vice-President, International
Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Professor, Department of Political Science

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Room 357S, 1 Devonshire Place
Lisa Yoneyama

Professor, Department of East Asian Studies and Women and Gender Studies Institute
Collaborative Master's Specialisation in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute; Affiliated faculty, CSUS

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RL 14215
Sherry S. Yu

Associate Professor, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, and the Faculty of Information
Affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Korea

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HW411, 1265 Military Trail; BL650, 140 St. George

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