JI-YEON YUH - Department of History - Northwestern University

JI-YEON YUHDepartment of History Office Tel: 1-847-467-65381800 Sherman Avenue Dept. Tel: 1-847-491-3406Evanston, IL 60201Email: j-yuh@northwestern.eduAcademic EmploymentAssociate Professor, Department of History, September 2005 to presentDirector, Program in Asian American Studies, September 2005 to presentNorthwestern University, Evanston, ILAssistant Professor, Department of History, July 1999 to August 2005Associate Director, Asian American Studies Program, July 2004 to August 2005Northwestern University, Evanston, ILOther EmploymentEditorial Board Member and Writer, June to September 1991The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PAReporter, June to September 1987 and May 1989 to July 1990Newsday, New York, NYReporter, September 1987 to May 1989The Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, NEEducationUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PAPh.D., Department of History, May 1999Stanford University, Palo Alto, CAB.S., Cognitive Science, 1987The Latin School of ChicagoErasmus Society, 1983Fellowships and GrantsHumanities Fellowship, Alice Berline Kaplan Humanities Institute, 2006-2007Post-Doctoral Fellowship in International Migration, Social Science Research Council,2002-2003URGC Research Grant, Northwestern University, 2001-2002Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1996-1997

Y.H. Park Fellowship for Korean Studies, 1995-1996.University Fellow Supplemental Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 1995-1996.University Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1994-1995.Mellon Dissertation Grant, summer 1994.Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1993-1994.Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1990-1991.AwardsPeabody Award for the radio documentary, “Crossing East,” (consulting scholar), 2006Milestone Maker Award, Asian American Institute, 2004Awarded annually to Asian Americans whose achievements benefit AsianAmerican communities and who serve as role models.AffiliationsVisiting Fellow, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, July-August, 2005, and July-August, 2004Research Fellow, Graduate University for Advanced Studies at the National Museum ofEthnology, Osaka, Japan, January-July 2003Visiting Research Scholar, Yanbian University, Yanji City, China, July-December 2002Works in Progress:Contesting Nationalisms: Memory and Identity in the Korean Diaspora (workingtitle): A book-length history of Korean diasporic communities in China, Japan, and theUnited States during the twentieth century.Spoils of War: National Division and the Korean Diaspora (working title): Abook-length study of the impact of the Korean War and national division on Koreanmigration overseas and the construction of Korean immigrant communities and diasporicidentities, this work will explore such phenomenon as overseas adoption and military brides,POW migration to Latin America, labor migration, separated families, and the relationshipbetween political allegiance and ethnic identity.“Re-imagining the Collective Self: Korea and the Korean Diaspora in theTwentieth Century”: This article examines transformations in Korean collective identitythroughout the twentieth century, and argues that overseas Koreans have had a criticalimpact on the collective identity of Koreans in the homeland and, after 1945, in the uneasyduality of a divided homeland.Asians in the Americas: An Interpretive History (working title): A history of Asianmigration and settlement in the Americas. Proposal solicited by Cambridge UniversityPress.Diasporic Counterpoint: Africans, Asians and the Americas, an anthology ofYuh: page 2 of 13

papers drawn from the eponymous April 2007 conference, co-edited with Darlene ClarkHine, under review at University of Illinois Press.PublicationsBooks:Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America, New YorkUniversity Press, August 2002 (Korean translation published March 2007, SamIn Press,Seoul, Korea).Articles:“Moved By War: Migration, Diaspora, and the Korean War.” Journal of AsianAmerican Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3, Oct. 2005. pp. 277-292.“Sowoi-wa Chabyul-eul Numu (Against Isolation and Discrimination: KoreanMilitary Brides in America),” in Dangdae Bipyung (Contemporary Criticism), Seoul,Korea, No. 21, Spring 2003, pp. 321-336.“Imagined Community: Sisterhood and Resistance Among Korean MilitaryBrides,” in Asian Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology, edited byShirley Hune and Gail Nomura, New York University Press, 2003, pp. 221-236.“Dissonance of Memories, Legacies of Silence: Korean Americans and the KoreanWar.” (with Ramsay Liem) Proceedings of the 12 th International Oral History Conference,Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, International Oral History Association, June 2002.“The Cultural and Historical Significance of Supyunje.” revision and translationof Cho Hae Joang's original Korean, in Im Kwon Taek, edited by David James and HyungKyung Kim. Wayne State University Press, 2001, pp.134-156."Out of the Shadows: Camptown Women, Military Brides and Korean (American)Communities." Hitting Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism, vol.6, no. 1: Fall 1999. pp. 13- 34."Dangerous Communists, Inscrutable Orientals, and Starving Masses: North Koreain American Eyes." Peace Review, 11:2 (Summer 1999), pp. 317-324.Reference Work Entries:“Asian War Brides,” Asian Pacific American History, an online reference workcompiled and edited by the Asian Pacific American History Collective and funded by theFord Foundation, forthcoming.Book Reviews:Review essay evaluating the recent surge in scholarly literature on North Korea,solicited by Critical Asian Studies, forthcoming.Yuh: page 3 of 13

At America’s Gates, by Erika Lee, in Reviews in American History Vol. 32. No. 4.(Dec. 2004) pp. 539-544.Asian American Studies: A Reader, edited by Jean Wu and Min Song, andContemporary Asian America, edited by Min Zhou and James V. Gatewood, in AmerasiaJournal, vol. 28. no. 2, 2002.The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii, 1896-1910, by WaynePatterson, in Amerasia Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, 1997, pp. 196-198.East to America: Korean American Life Stories, by Elaine Kim and Eui-Young Yu,in Amerasia Journal, vol. 22, no.3, 1996, pp.175-177.Museum Exhibit Catalogs:“The Korean War: A Still Present Past,” in Still Present Pasts: Korean Americansand the “Forgotten War,” catalog accompanying eponymous exhibit, A Project of theChanning and Popai Liem Education Foundation and the Korean American Memories ofthe Korean War Oral History Project, Boston College, 2005, pp. 23-31.Exhibits and ProjectsHistorical Advisor and Co-organizer, “Still Presents Pasts: Korean Americans andthe “Forgotten War.” With Ramsay Liem, Professor of Psychology at Boston College.Traveling exhibit showcasing oral history interviews with Korean Americans about theirwar experiences and their impact on family, migration, and community development.Opened January 2005 in Boston and exhibited in Oakland, CA in 2006. Scheduled to openat the University of Minnesota in April 2007, and will tour Washington, D.C., New York,Los Angeles, etc. Website: www.stillpresentpasts.orgConsulting Scholar, “Crossing East,” recipient of a 2006 Peabody Award; eight-hourradio documentary on history of Asian Americans produced by MediaRites and hosted byGeorge Takei and Margaret Cho. Aired in 2006 on more than 300 radio stations, includingNational Public Radio affiliates and Pacific Radio International affiliates. Website:www.crossingeast.orgResearch Scholar, Archive of Diasporic Korea, University of Michigan, KoreanStudies Center, 2003 to present: a joint research project involving scholars from universitiesin the United States, South America, China, Japan and central Asia that would create adigital archive; initial projects deal with the Korean experience in modern times, in CentralAsian Republics, Central America and Brazil, Northern China, and the United States.Consultant and Contributing Scholar, Korean Diaspora Project, National Instituteof Korean History, Seoul, Korea, 2004 to present: a collaborative research and archivalproject involving scholars from South Korea, Japan, the United States, China and otherYuh: page 4 of 13

countries.Professional TalksInvited Lectures:“The State of Korean American Studies,” Korean American Studies Conference,UCLA, June 9, 2007“Future Legacies: Korean Diaspora in the 20th Century,” Immigration HistoryResearch Center, University of Minnesota, April 13, 2007“Bordered in a Borderless World: Asian Women in Migration,” Plenary Speaker atthe 2005 Berkshire Women’s History Conference, Claremont, California, June 2-5, 2005.“U.S. Military Power and Asian Migration,” Dartmouth College, Program inWomen’s Studies and Department of Geography, April 2005.“Internationalizing Asian American Studies: Korean Americans and Diaspora,”Department of History, Indiana University, March 2005.“Decentering Diaspora: Koreans in the 20 th Century,” Department of History,Dartmouth, March 2005.“War, Migration, and Diaspora: Korea in the 20 th Century,” School of GlobalStudies and the Department of History, Arizona State University, February 2005.“Ladies First: The Feminization of Transnational Migration,” University ofWisconsin, Department of History, Mellon Seminar Series on Transnational Gender,December 3, 2004.“Minjok in the Diasporic Imagination,” University of Michigan, Korean StudiesCenter, October 25, 2004.“Gender and Asian Diaspora,” Seoul National University, Center for GenderStudies and the Institute for Social Policy and Development Research, July 21, 2004, Seoul,Korea.“Beyond the Peninsula: Korean Diaspora and Contemporary Korea,” KeynoteAddress, ASIANetwork Annual Convention, Lisle, Illinois, April 4, 2004.“Between Minjok and Revolution: Revolutionary Socialist Korean Women inChina and Japan, 1940s and 1950s,” Harvard University, Center for Korean Studies,December 4, 2003.“Korean Women in Diaspora: Gender, Nation and Memory,” OchanomizuYuh: page 5 of 13

University, Tokyo, Japan, May 17, 2003.“When Civil Rights Are Not Enough: The Case of Korean Military Brides inAmerica,” Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, May 9, 2003.“History and Memory in Korean Diasporic Communities: What’s different aboutChina?” Occasional Faculty Lectures, Yanbian University, Yanji City, China, July 2002.“Constructing Selves: The Korean Diaspora in Comparative Perspective.” NewGlobal Migrations Faculty Development Seminar Series, Montgomery College, MD,April 2002.“Marked Bodies, Gendered Lives: Korean Military Brdes in America.” 1999-2000Asian American Studies Forum, University of Illinios, Urbana-Champaign, Feb. 25, 2000.“Gender, Sexuality and Korean/American Nationalisms: Camptown Women andKorean Military Brides,” Women’s Studies Colloquium, Northwestern University, Evanston,IL, April 3, 2000.“Resistance and Community: Korean Military Brides in America,” NorthwesternUniversity, Evanston, IL, March 1999.“Cooking American, Eating Korean: Meanings of Food in the Lives of KoreanMilitary Brides.” 1998-99 Balch Faculty Forum, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies,Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 13, 1998.“Camptown, U.S.A.” University of Massachusetts at Boston, April 1998.Conference Papers:“From Barred Zones to Autonomous Zones: Immigration and Minority Policies inChina, Japan and the United States.” Annual conference of the Association for AsianAmerican Studies, April 22-26, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii.“History, Memory and Identity Among Diasporic Koreans,” biennial conference ofthe International Oral History Association, June 23- 27, 2004, Rome, Italy.“Bringing Scholarship to the Community: Museum Exhibits and History.”Association for Asian American Studies annual conference, March 26, 2004, Boston.“Identity and Community in the Korean Diaspora,” Fellows Conference of theSocial Science Research Council, Asilomar, California, January 3-7, 2004.“North Korean Refugees in China,” annual conference of the International StudiesAssociation, New Orleans, March 2002.Yuh: page 6 of 13

“A Different Immigration: Korean Military Brides,” Conference on Diaspora andNationalism, National University of Singapore, Singapore, September 2001.“Camptown Women and the Gendering of South Korean Nationalism.”Association for Asian Studies annual conference, Chicago, March 24, 2001.“Nationalism and Identity in The Korean Diaspora in China, Japan, the UnitedStates and the former Soviet Union,” Association for Asian Studies annual conference,Chicago, March 22, 2001.“Moments of Living, Moments of Telling,” 11 th Annual Conference of theInternational Oral History Association, June 15-19, 2000, Istanbul.“Redress for the WWII Internment of Japanese Americans,” Compensating forHistory, conference sponsored by the History Department, Northwestern University, May2000.“Korean Americans and the Korean War: Dissonance of Memories, Legacies ofSilence,” International Conference on the Memory of Catastrophe, Southampton University,Southampton, England, April 14-17, 2000.“Proud To Be Korean, But Living in America: Language and Identity inKorean/American Borderlands.” Joint Annual Meeting of the American Studies Associationand the Canadian Association of American Studies, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 28-31, 1999.“Sisters Do It For Themselves: Identity and Community Among Korean MilitaryBrides.” 16th Annual Conference, Association for Asian American Studies, Philadelphia,March 31-April 3, 1999.“Media Representations of Famine in North Korea.” 15th Annual Conference,Association for Asian American Studies, Honolulu, HI, June 25, 1998.“One Woman’s Story: A Korean Military Bride in Philadelphia.” 11th AnnualConference, Association for Asian American Studies, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 1994.Conference OrganizingCo-convener, with Darlene Clark Hine, “Diasporic Counterpoint: African, Asians,and the Americas.” Center for African American History and the Program in AsianAmerican Studies, Northwestern University, April 20-21, 2007.Primary organizer, “Building Asian American Studies at Northwestern: EthnicStudies, Activism and Diaspora,” a conference in commemoration of the 10 th anniversary ofthe student hunger strike for an Asian American Studies program, Northwestern University,Yuh: page 7 of 13

April 15-17, 2005.Co-organizer and program coordinator, East of California Annual Conference,Philadelphia, Oct. 27-29, 1995.Co-organizer, 1995 East of California Pre-Conference for Philadelphia PublicHigh School Students, Oct. 27, 1995.Peer ReviewCambridge University Press, manuscript reviewer, 2007Feminist Studies, manuscript reviewer, 2006 to presentNew York University Press, manuscript reviewer, 2006 to presentOxford University Press, manuscript reviewer, 2006 to presentStanford University Press, manuscript reviewer, 2004 to presentInternational Migration Review, manuscript reviewer, 2005 and 2006.Houghton Mifflin, manuscript reviewer, 2000.Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea, manuscriptreviewer, 2003-present.Korea Journal, Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, U.S.A., manuscriptreviewer, 2003-presentTeachingCourses Developed and Taught:History 102: Frosh Seminar, Asian American MemoirsHistory 214-0-20: Introduction to Asian American HistoryHistory 392: Imagined Fantasies, Lived Realities: Camptown Women,Mail Order Brides, and Military BridesGender Studies 390 and History 392/395: Asian American Women’s HistoryHistory 395: American Democracy and Japanese American InternmentHistory 391: Migration and Community in Asian DiasporaHistory 395/392: Korean DiasporaHistory 430: Comparative Diaspora (graduate seminar)History 410-3: Twentieth-Century U.S. (graduate field seminar)History 399 Undergraduate Directed Reading in Korean HistoryHistory 399 Undergraduate Directed Reading in Asian American HistoryHistory 499 Graduate Directed Reading in Japanese American internment historyYuh: page 8 of 13

History 499 Graduate Directed Reading in Asian American Women’s Historyand Feminist TheologyHistory 499 Graduate Directed Reading in Asian American HistorySupervision of StudentsAdvising of Graduate Students:Ph.D. dissertation committee, Marc Simon Rodriguez, “Obreros Unidos: MigrantFarm Worker Activism and the Chicano Movement in Wisconsin and Texas, 1950-1980.”Northwestern University, History Department, 2000 (went to a tenure-track position inhistory at Princeton, fall 2000, now tenure-track at Notre Dame).Qualifying Exam Committee, Mai-Anh Tran, doctoral student at GarrettTheological Seminary, Fall 2002.Ph.D. dissertation committee, Priya Srinivasan, “Constructing AmericanWomanhoods through Bharata Natyam Performance Practice,” Northwestern University,Department of Performance Studies, June 2003 (went to a tenure-track position in dance atUC-Riverside, fall 2003).Ph.D. dissertation committee, Hayun Kang, “Governance and State-BusinessRelations: Collaboration, Collusion and Conflict in the Korean Political Economy,”Northwestern University, Department of Political Science, June 2004 (returned to SouthKorea as a researcher at a top political science institute in Seoul).Qualifying Exam Committee and Ph.D. dissertation committee, Shuji Otsuka,Northwestern University, History Department, degree expected June 2010.Master’s Thesis Advisor, Sara H. Tae, School of Continuing Studies, degreegranted 2005.Qualifying Exam Committee and Ph.D. dissertation committee, Stephen Mak,Northwestern University, History Department, degree expected 2008.Directed Research, Undergraduates:B.A. Honors Thesis Advisor, Jennifer Manne, “Revered and Reviled: The Historyof Anti-Americanism in South Korea,” Northwestern University, Program in Asian andMiddle Eastern Studies, June 2005.B.A. Honors Thesis Advisor, David Paek, “After the Fire: Reconciliation betweenKorean Americans and African Americans after 1992,” Northwestern University, Programin American Studies, June 2005.B.A. Honors Thesis advisor, Dan Lee, “Re-Thinking the Ethnic Enclave Economy:Risk, Ethnic Solidarity, and Christianity in Philadelphia’s Koreatown,” NorthwesternYuh: page 9 of 13

University, Program in American Studies, June 2004.Advisor for Undergraduate Research Project (funded through WCAS), DanielleEngle and Jennifer Manne, “A Survey of Anti-Americanism among Youth in ContemporarySouth Korea,” 2003-2004.B.A. Honors Thesis advisor, Puneet Singh, “Her Story: Identity Formations ofSouth Asian Women Fighting Domestic Violence,” Northwestern University, Program inAmerican Studies, 2002, recipient of Hurd-Kleighbaum research grant.B.A. Honors Thesis advisor, Cindy Tse, “Sexualized Virtue: The ConflictingImage of Women in Cold War America.” Northwestern University, History Department,2000.University ServiceMember, Performance Studies Faculty Search Committee, School ofCommunications, 2006-2007Member, Performance Studies Graduate Program Committee, School ofCommunications, 2006-2007Chair, Latino/a Studies Faculty Search Committee, WCAS, 2005-2006Chair, Asian American Studies Faculty Search Committee, WCAS, 2005-2006Department Advisor to Majors, Department of History, 2004-2005Member, Colloquia Committee, Department of History, 2004-2005Member, Faculty Advisory Board, Undergraduate Lecture Series on Race, Povertyand Inequality, Spring 2004 to presentMember, Program Assistant Search Committee, Asian American Studies Program,Spring 2004 to presentMember, Assistant Director Search Committee, Asian American Studies Program,Spring 2004Member, 19th Century U.S. History Faculty Search Committee, Department ofHistory, 2003-2004Member, Asian American Studies Faculty Search Committee, Asian AmericanStudies Program and the Office of the Dean, WCAS, 2001-2002Yuh: page 10 of 13

Member, Asian/Asian American Student Services Coordinator Search Committee,Office of Student Affairs, 2001-2002 and 2004-2005Member, History Department Undergraduate Program Committee, NorthwesternUniversity, 2000 to presentCore faculty member, Asian American Studies Program, Northwestern University,1999 to present: Directly involved in program development; activities include teaching corecourses, developing curriculum, developing programming, and supervising student workersand staff.presentMember, Faculty Advisory Committee for Asian American Studies, 1999 toFaculty Associate, International Studies Residential College, 1999 to 2002Member, Undergraduate Honors Committee, Department of History, 1999-2001,2004-2005Selected Community ServicePresident, Board of Director, KAN-WIN, May 2007 to presentMember, Board of Directors, KAN-WIN, September 2005 to May 2007Member, Board of Director, Korea Policy Institute, 2006 to presentFounding Member, Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea, March 2003 topresentSteering Committee Member, Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea, March2003 to May 2007Consultant, Character Education Programs, Roycemore School, September 2003 topresentConsultant, Diversity Committee, Girl Scouts of Chicago, April 2004 to presentHistorical Advisor, Chicago Coalition Against Militarism, 2002 to presentMember, Editorial board, Korea Report, Washington, D.C., 1994 to presentFounding member, Congress for Korean Reunification, U.S.A. 1994 to presentSelected Community Talks:“As Futures and Pasts Converge: Korean American Lives,” Keynote Address,Korean American Scholarship Foundation fundraising banquet, Northbrook, IL, August 18,2007“No More War: Korean Americans and the Legacy of the Korean War,” keynotefor opening ceremony of Still Present Pasts, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, April 14, 2007.“No More War: Korean Americans and the Legacy of the Korean War,” keynotefor the grand opening ceremony of Still Present Pasts, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center,Yuh: page 11 of 13

Cambridge, MA, January 29, 2005.“The Consequences and Effects of L.A. 1992 for Asian Americans,” seminarsponsored by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, NorthwesternUniversity Law School, Nov. 17, 2004“Woman’s Rights are Human Rights,” Keynote Address, KAN-WIN (KoreanAmerican Women in Need) Fundraising Banquet, Chicago, Oct. 14, 2004.“Korean Americans and the Korean Diaspora: Prospects for InternationalCommunity,” Keynote Address, Annual Conference of the Korean Global Foundation, Sept.29, 2004, Washington, D.C.“Asian Americans in the Midwest,” World Affairs Symposium on the AsianAmerican Experience, May 21, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, organized by the Chicago Councilon Foreign Relations, LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc.) in Los Angeles,the Asia Society in New York, the Asian American Institute in Chicago, and the Universityof Chicago’s Center for East Asian Studies and South Asia Language and Area Center.“North Korea and the Nuclear Threat,” Latin School of Chicago, February 2004.“Asian Women and U.S. Militarism,” International Women’s Day Conference,sponsored by the labor union UNITE!, Chicago, March 2004.“Gender and the Military in South Korea,” International Women’s Day Conference,organized by the Chicago Coalition, March 3, 2002.“Deportation and Internment: Koreans in the Soviet Union, Japanese in the UnitedStates,” The Latin School of Chicago, February 15, 2002.“Korean Military Brides in America,” Chicago Korean American Association,December 8, 2001.“Social Effects of The U.S. Military Presence in South Korea,” Chicago CoalitionAgainst Militarism, May 2001“After Los Angeles 1992: The Future of Koreans in America,” Chicago KoreanAmerican Association, March 2001Selected Media Publications“Make Friends with North Korea,” Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald,Baltimore Sun, Daily Yomiuri, and other newspapers. February 2001.Yuh: page 12 of 13

“U.S. Media Ignores Humanitarian Aspects of Famine in North Korea.” (withRamsay Liem) In P. Phillips (Ed.) Censored 2000 – The Year’s Top 25 Censored Stories.N.Y.: Seven Stories Press, 2000.“One Sorrow Upon Another: Reception and accountability in Ten ThousandSorrows,” Korean Quarterly, Winter 2000.“America Today: Elizabeth Dole for President?” Dong-A Ilbo, Seoul, Korea ,September 1, 1999."Women Around the World." Weekly column for Yosong Sinmun (The Women'sNews). Seoul, Korea, 1998-1999.“Reflections on Studying Asian American History.” Magazine of History.Organization of American Historians. Summer 1996 focus issue on Asian American studiesedited by Gary Y. Okihiro.“The Korean War Memorial and Kim Young Sam,” Korea Report, Washington,D.C., Fall 1995.Professional MembershipsAmerican Historical AssociationOrganization of American HistoriansInternational Oral History AssociationAssociation for Asian American StudiesAssociation for the Study of Overseas Koreans (Seoul, Korea)Yuh: page 13 of 13