Academic Work

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

2024. The “Racial Retreat” of South Korea. Men & Masculinities (Revise & Resubmit Provisional Acceptance)

2021. East Asian Savage: Untouched Orientalism and Imperial Anthropology. Transnational Asia: An Online Interdisciplinary Journal 4 (1). [https://doi.org/10.25615/NQS6-BY12]

2019. Manly Colors: Masculinity and Mobility among Globalizing Korean Men. Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies 6 (2). [https://doi.org/10.15367/kf.v6i2]

2019. Diaspora and Unification: The Changing Landscape on the Korean Peninsula and a Diasporic Community’s Response—With the Focus on Korean Americans in the Greater Houston Area. Transnational Asia: An Online Interdisciplinary Journal 3 (1). [https://doi.org/10.25613/q1p7-vn42]

2018. Global Identifications: The Social Identity Behind the Globalised Sociocultural Anthropologist (Special Issue: Nativity Seen in the Anthropocene: Contemporary Fieldwork and Subjective Challenges). The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 19 (3):214-230. [https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2018.1454502]

2016. Les origines du christianisme coréen et le succès de la visite du pape François (English Translation: The Social and Intellectual Origins of Christianity in South Korea as a Means to Understanding Pope Francis’ 2014 Visit). Korea Analysis (French language publication), Issue 11 (Feb) [https://centreasia.hypotheses.org/files/2017/03/Korea_Analysis_111.pdf]

Book Chapters

2017. Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: Cosmopolitan South Korean Emirates Airlines Flight Attendants and the Reproduction of Global Racial Hierarchies. In Cosmopolitanism and Tourism: Rethinking Theory and Practice. Robert Shepherd, ed. Pp. 115-139. Lanham: Lexington Books (a division of Rowman & Littlefield). [https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498549783/Cosmopolitanism-and-Tourism-Rethinking-Theory-and-Practice]

Book Reviews

2020, Review of Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 26 (2): 245-487. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13263.

2020, Review of “Good Luck Soup” (dir. Matthew Hashiguchi, 2017), The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2020.1726257.

2018, Review of Trespassing? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia. City & Society 30(2). http://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12164.

2017, Review of Gendered Entanglements: Revisiting Gender in Rapidly Changing Asia. Association for Feminist Anthropology. http://afa.americananthro.org/book-review/gendered-entanglements-revisiting-gender-in-rapidly-changing-asia.

Public Scholarship

2017, “Podcaster, Fieldnotes: The Power to Communicate and Influence through the Way We Choose to Dress.” AnthroTalks (Sponsored by the Association for the Practice of Anthropology): Ep. 1 Dressing the Part (July 9). [https://www.anthrotalks.org)