Center for Korean Studies Undergraduate Fellowship Announcement

CKS Undergraduate Fellows. Photo by Jenny Yoo. CC BY-SA 2.0

Announcing the first annual CKS Undergraduate Fellows! Joseph Johnson and Robin Heejae Chang. Congratulations! We wish you the best of luck in all your future endeavors as CKS Undergraduate Fellows!

This was our first annual Center for Korean Studies Undergraduate Fellowship, and CKS has been very fortunate to receive many strong applications this year.

CKS had a difficult time in selecting this year's fellowship recipients because of the high qualifications of the candidates. We hope that this fellowship opportunity will serve as an important tool in supporting the future scholars of Korean Studies! CKS is planning to offer these fellowship awards every year, so please be sure to apply next year. We sincerely thank all applicants, and we appreciate everyone's support!

Announcing the inaugural CKS Undergraduate Fellows of 2015!

Joseph H. Johnson and Robin Heejae Chang

Congratulations!

  Please check back to learn more about our fellows! Their bios will be posted soon.

About Joseph Johnson:
Joseph is finishing his senior year as a Korean major with Asian Humanities minor.

"It is incredibly exciting to be one of the inaugural Center for Korean Studies' Undergraduate Fellows. I am Interested in researching Korean Foodways and the history of localized "western" foods in Seoul prior the IMF crisis to the present, especially in the neighborhoods of Noksapyeong (녹사평) and Itaewon (이태원). My goal is to further illuminate the stories of labor, class, sexual, and gender concerns tied to the localization of these foods. In the summer of 2014, I was able to study at Korea University and while there I became transfixed with how food appears to be deeply ingrained into Korean livelihoods in Seoul as well as facilitating community interaction within specific groups. South Korea is still rapidly developing and becoming increasingly "globalized" and I believe the localization of "Western" foods reflects how some areas are engaging directly with forces of globalization. I am thankful and indebted to the Center for Korean Studies for their continued support of my academic pursuits in Korean Food Studies as well as my desires to one day lend my support to future generations as a professor of Korean Foodways and Culture."

  About Robin Heejae Chang:
Robin is finishing her senior year as an Asian American Studies major. 

Published: Friday, February 27, 2015