Ji-Yeon Yuh
Ji-Yeon Yuh is the founding faculty member of the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern University, where she teaches Asian American history, Asian diasporas, race and gender, and oral history. Her book, Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America, was the first substantive work to examine the consequences for migration and diaspora of U.S. militarism in Korea. Her current projects include a digital oral history repository focused on Asian diasporas, an oral history project on the Midwest as an Asian American space, a book on Korean diaspora in China, Japan, and the United States, and a study of reunification and Korea peace activism in the Korean diaspora. She has been a consultant for numerous public history, media, and education projects, including Still Presents Pasts, an exhibit on Korean Americans and the Korean War, Crossing East, a radio documentary on Asian Americans, and Pollyanna’s forthcoming high school racial literacy curriculum. She is a longtime advocate for Korea peace and reunification and is a co-founder and former steering committee member of the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea. She currently serves on the board of the Korea Policy Institute. She is a co-founder and board president of the Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago and a former board president of KAN-WIN, an Asian American women’s anti-gender-violence organization. She is a native of Seoul and Chicago, a fan of pungmul, a taekwondo black belt, a science fiction reader, and the mother of three children.
