Yoonjung Kang

I start the Ph. D program in Fall 2008. My scholarly interests are in modernity, globalization, gender, and identity. Previously, majoring in Sociology at Yonsei University in South Korea, I conducted research examining how Korean young females deploy discourses of "global" or "globalization" to oppose the gender-stratified family and corporate structures in South Korea. In the Ph.D program, I hope to investigate how globalization represents and incorporates young Asian females into the realms of culture, politics, and economy and to explore how globalization processes both re-inscribe and reconfigure existing hierarchies of gender and nationality, reshaping the contours of Asian women's lives. Whenever I am conscious of my race, gender, cultural and economic status as a woman from an Asian country, I am fascinated by Anthropology which has sought to encourage people to think in new ways about their own experiences and lives, as well to include women's voices and perspectives in research, and thereby to empower powerless people in amazing ways. This aspect strongly motivates me to continue my academic journey as an anthropologist with a stress on ethics, commitment, and activism in ethnographic research as a native anthropologist.

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