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Chunghee Sarah Soh, Ph.D.
Fellow,
Institute for Corean-American Studies
Chunghee Sarah Soh
is a sociocultural anthropologist who specializes in issues of
women, gender, sexuality, and social/cultural change. She
performed a highly-acclaimed ethnographic study of virtually all
of women who served in the national legislature of South Korea up
to the early 1990s, which resulted in the books,
The Chosen
Women in Korean Politics: An Anthropological Study and
Women in Korean Politics. She has also published extensively
in scholarly journals on Psychological Anthropology, Women's and
Gender Studies, Korean Studies, Asian Studies, and Asian American
Studies. At present she is engaged in research on the Comfort
Women, the women who were drafted in sexual slavery by the
Japanese during the Second World War.
As a
Korean-American who has lived, studied and lectured in many
countries around the world including Japan, the Philippines,
Jordan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, Dr. Soh, in her
current work, seeks to present a balanced study of the
controversial issues surrounding the Comfort Women. Her research
examines the historical realities of Japanese military
prostitution and sexual slavery before and during World War Two
in the context of violence against women, the patriarchal sexual
culture and militarism. It also analyzes the evolution of the
international redress movement for the Comfort Women survivors by
feminist and human rights advocates in the context of the
post-Cold War world politics of human rights. Field research for
this project has been carried out in Korea, the National Archives
in Washington D.C., Japan, and The Netherlands. Some of the
findings of this research have been published in
Asian Survey,
Critical Asian Studies, Korea Forum, Korea Journal, Social
Science Japan Journal, Peace Review, Women’s Studies
International Forum, and The Historical Encyclopedia of
World Slavery.
Dr. Soh is a
graduate with highest honors of Sogang University in Seoul, and
earned her Master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of
Hawaii with a scholarship from the East-West Center. She has
taught at Ewha Womans [Women's]University in Korea, the
University of Hawaii, the University of Arizona, Southwest Texas
State University, and at present is Associate Professor of
Anthropology at San Francisco State University.
For her past and
current research Dr. Soh has received grants and awards from the
East-West Center, National Endowment for Humanities, National
Science Foundation; Association for Asian Studies, Korea
Foundation, Japan Foundation, International Institute for Asian
Studies of Leiden University; Institute for Research on Women and
Gender of Stanford University, and the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation.
Dr. Soh serves as
Treasurer of the East Asia Section of the American
Anthropological Association. She has served as a member of the
Executive Committee of Women in Asian Studies of the Association
for Asian Studies, a member of the Planning Committee of the
Competing Modernities in Twentieth-Century Japan Conference
Series II, and as an adjunct professor at the Intercultural
Institute of California of the Korean Center in San Francisco.
Dr. Soh has been
listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's
Who in the West, and Who's Who of American Women.
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