Seo Young Park

• Ph.D. Anthropology (University of California, Irvine);
• MA. Culture and Gender Studies; B.A. Sociology (Yonsei University)

Seo Young Park’s research interests include urban space, gender and labor, market and value, time and temporalities, and East Asia, especially South Korea. Her current research projects explore individual, commercial, and institutional practices responding to the urban atmospheric crises in South Korea, analyzing how these practices contribute to the emerging forms of knowledge and care that shape the relationship that people have with the environment.

• Core 2: Urban Nights: Gender, Work, and Experiences
• Core 3: Gender and Labor
• Anth 002: Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
• Anth 022: Urban East Asia
• Anth 113: Ethnographic Tales of the City
• Anth 115: Stuff: The Social Life of Commodities
• Anth 118: Labor, Work, and Life
• Anth 119: East Asia through Ethnography and Film
• Anth 190: Senior Seminar in Ethnographic Writing

2021 Stitching the 24-hour City: Life, Labor, and the Problem of Speed in Seoul. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Francis L. Hsu Book Prize Honorable Mention, Society for East Asian Anthropology

2019 “Situating the Space of Labor: Activism, Work, and Urban Regeneration” In Developing Urban Korea: Core Locations and Post-Colonial Knowledges. Jesook Song and Laam Hae, eds. (University of Toronto Press)

2019 “My Skill: Precarious Attachments and Narratives of Garment Workers in South Korea.” In Gender & Class in Contemporary South Korea: Intersectionality and Transnationality. John Lie, Laura Nelson, and Hae Yeon Choo, eds. (Institute of Asia Studies, UC Berkeley)

2012 “Stitching the Fabric of Family: Time, Work, and Intimacy in Seoul's Tongdaemun Market.” The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 17 No. 2.

Mary W. Johnson Faculty Achievement Award in Teaching, Scripps College (2018-19) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California (2011-12) Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2009-2010)