1 MYUNGJI YANG Department of Political Science University of Hawai i, Mānoa Saunders Hall 611 2424 Maile Way myang4@hawaii.edu Honolulu, HI 96822 T. 808.956.8362 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai i, Mānoa, August 2013- Postdoctoral Fellow, Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California, 2015-2016 Faculty Affiliate, Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai i, Mānoa, January 2014- One-Year Term Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Rhode Island College, August 2012-July 2013 EDUCATION Ph.D. Sociology, Brown University, May 2012 Dissertation: The Making of the Urban Middle Class in Korea and China: Nationalism, Modernity, and New Identities Committee: Patrick Heller (Chair); John R. Logan; Melani Cammett; and James Mahoney M.A. Sociology, Yonsei University, South Korea, 2003 Thesis: Class Politics as a Ruling Strategy: Working Class Exclusion and Middle Class Inclusion during the Park Chung Hee Regime in South Korea. B.A. Sociology and Korean Literature, Yonsei University, South Korea, 2001 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Class and Social Inequality Sociology of Development Democracy and Civil Society Globalization Urban Sociology and Politics Social Movements and Contentious Politics Comparative Historical/Qualitative Methods East Asia and Korea PUBLICATION: BOOK Yang, Myungji. 2018. From Miracle to Mirage: The Making and Unmaking of the Korean Middle Class, 1960-2015. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. M. Yang CV
2 PUBLICATION: REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES Yang, Myungji. 2018. The Rise of Gangnam Style : Manufacturing the Urban Middle Class in Seoul, 1976-1996. Urban Studies 55(15): 3404-3420. Yang, Myungji. 2017. Living on the Margin: Downward Mobility and the Plight of the Self- Employed in Neoliberal South Korea. Korea Observer 48(2): 217-247. Villegas, Celso and Myungji Yang. 2013. Making Narratives of Revolution: Democratic Transition and the Language of Middle-Class Identity in the Philippines and South Korea, 1970s- 1987. Critical Asian Studies 45(3): 335-364. Yang, Myungji. 2012. The Making of the Urban Middle Class in South Korea: Discipline, Nation-Building, and the Creation of Ideal National Subjects. Sociological Inquiry 82(3): 424-445. Yang, Myungji. 2006. What Sustains Authoritarianism? From State-Based Hegemony to Class- Based Hegemony during the Park Chung Hee Regime in South Korea. Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society 9(4) (December): 425-447. Yang, Myungji. 2003. Class Politics as a Ruling Strategy: Working Class Exclusion and Middle Class Inclusion during the Park Chung Hee Regime in South Korea (in Korean). Journal of Social Development Studies, Vol. 9: 163-191. PUBLICATION: PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTER Yang, Myungji. Forthcoming. Shrewd Entrepreneurs or Immoral Speculators? Desires, Speculation, and Middle-Class Housewives in South Korea, 1978-1996. Gender, Class, and Contemporary South Korea: Intersectionality and Transnationality edited by John Lie, Laura Nelson, and Hae Yeon Choo. Berkeley, CA: Institute for East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. BOOK REVIEWS Forthcoming. The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China by Bin Xu. Stanford: Stanford University Press (2017). American Journal of Sociology. 2018 Igniting the Internet: Youth and Activism in Postauthoritarian South Korea by Jiyeon Kang. Honolulu: University of Hawai i Press (2016). Korean Studies 42: 96-99. 2017 Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea by Jaeeun Kim. Stanford: Stanford University Press (2016). American Journal of Sociology 123(3): 927-928.
3 2015 Making East Asian Consumers: Market Formation and Evolution of Demand in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China by Solee Irene Shin. PhD dissertation, University of Washington. Dissertation Reviews (dissertationreviews.org) 2013 Judith A. Teichman, Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico by Judith A. Teichman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press (2012). Journal of Asian Studies 72(3): 737-739. WORK UNDER REVIEW Yang, Myungji. Defending Liberal Democracy? Why Older Koreans Took to the Streets against the Candlelight Protests, 2016-2017. Under review. GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS Extramural Sources 2017 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) First Book Subvention Award ($1,000) 2017 Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (NEAC) Korean Studies Research Travel Grant Award ($5,000) 2015-2016 Korean Studies Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Southern California ($42,000) 2014 SSRC Korean Studies Workshop for Junior Faculty 2010 Travel Grant, XVII International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology 2009 SSRC Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop Internal Sources 2019 College Travel Fund, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai i, Mānoa ($1,100) 2019 Faculty Travel Award, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Hawai i, Mānoa ($1,700) 2017 Research Award, Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai i, Mānoa ($4,000) 2017 Faculty Travel Award, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Hawai i, Mānoa ($1,500 X 2) 2016 Research Grant, Core University Funding Program/Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai i, Mānoa ($3,175) 2016 Postdoctoral Scholar Travel Award, University of Southern California ($800) 2015 Conference Travel Grant, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai i, Mānoa ($2,000) 2015 Conference Travel Grant, University Research Council, University of Hawai i, Mānoa ($1,500) 2012 International Conference Travel Grant, Office of International Affairs, Brown University ($1,000)
4 2008-2009 Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, Brown University 2008 Beatrice and Joseph Feinberg Memorial Award for Graduate Education, Department of Sociology, Brown University 2007 Summer Fieldwork Grant, Graduate Program in Development, Brown University ($1,000) 2004-2005 Graduate School Fellowship, Graduate School, Brown University 2003 Best Thesis Award, Graduate School, Yonsei University 1998-2000 Merit Scholarship, Yonsei University INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS Panel Discussion: Expanding and Enhancing Korean Studies. Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP) Infusing Korean Studies Summer Institute, East-West Center, HI. August 9, 2018. Contemporary Korean Politics: The Challenges of Democracy. Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP) Infusing Korean Studies Summer Institute, East-West Center, HI. August 7, 2018. From Miracle to Mirage: The Making and Unmaking of the Korean Middle Class, 1960-2015. Department of Sociology, Chung-Ang University, Korea. June 8, 2018. Department of Sociology, Yonsei University, Korea. June 4, 2018. Center for Critical Korean Studies, University of California-Irvine. May 11, 2018. Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai i, Mānoa. April 2017. The Rise of Gangnam Style : Manufacturing the Urban Middle Class, 1976-1996. Keynote address. Yonsei University-Freie Universität Berlin Joint Graduate Workshop, Freie Universität Berlin. Berlin, Germany. October 2017. The Betrayed Dream of the Korean Middle Class, 1997-2010: Economic Restructuring, Status Anxiety, and the Collapse of Middle-Class Myths. Workshop on Middle Classes in East Asia s Global Cities: Spaces, Communities, and Lifestyles, Department of Asian Studies and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. June 2016. A Dream Betrayed: Downward Mobility and Collective Frustration in Precarious South Korea. Workshop on The Affects of Korea s Soft Power, Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California. February 2016. Shrewd Entrepreneurs or Immoral Speculators? The Role of Middle-Class Housewives in Social Mobility in South Korea. Workshop on Class and Gender in Contemporary Korea, Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley. May 2015. From Miracle to Mirage: The Making and Unmaking of the Korean Middle Class, 1960-2000. SSRC Korean Studies Workshop for Junior Faculty. July 2014.
5 The Rise of Gangnam Style : Pursuing Middle-Class Dreams in South Korea, 1972-1990. Department of Political Science, University of Hawai i, Mānoa. January 2014. Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert. February 2014. The Making of the Urban Middle Class in South Korea and China. Department of Political Science, University of Hawai i, Mānoa. April 2013. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology. March 2013. Department of Political Science, Amherst College. May 2012. Center for Asian Democracy, University of Louisville. February 2012. The (Un)Making of the Urban Middle Class in South Korea: From Collective Imagination to Frustrated Aspiration. Korean Studies Symposium. State University of New York, Binghamton, NY. May 2012. The Illiberal Path to Development: The Urban Middle Class and the State in the Making of Development in South Korea (1963-1987) and China (1980-2007). SSRC Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop (Selected Participant). Pacific Grove, CA. July 2009. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS The Specter of the Past: Reconstructing Conservative Historical Memory in South Korea. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. March 2019. Inaugural Conference on Right-Wing Studies. Center for Right-Wing Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA. April 2019. Occupied Nation: Why Older Koreans Took to the Streets against Anti-Government Protests. Workshop on New Directions in the Study of Populism. Arizona State University, AZ. March 15-17, 2018. Mobilizing Fear and Hate: The Discourses and Strategies of the Korean Right Wing. The International Workshop for Hate Speech in Asia and Europe. Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. January 17-18, 2018. Defending Democracy: The Post-Democratization Trajectory and Middle-Class Protests in South Korea, 1997-2016. Social Science History Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada. November 2017. Living with Insecurity: The Unmaking of the Korean Middle Class, 1997-2015. Inequality Symposium. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. July 2017. Why South Korea Became a Dystopia: Downward Mobility and Collective Frustration in Precarious Korea.
6 Development in the Face of Global Inequalities Conference. Barcelona, Spain. May 2017. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada. March 2017. Displacement in the Name of Development: Urbanization, Speculation, and Stratified Spatial Order in South Korea. International Sociological Association ISA Forum of Sociology. Vienna, Austria. July 2016. From Miracle to Mirage: The Making and Unmaking of the Korean Middle Class, 1960-2000. The Annual Conference of the Sociology of Development Section of the American Sociological Association. Providence, RI. March 2015. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. March 2015. The Origins of Conservative Democracy in South Korea: Nation-Building, Authoritarian Legacies, and Middle-Class Politics. International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology. Yokohama, Japan. July 2014. Cultural Construction of the Chinese Middle Class: Economic Reform, Urban Consumer Culture, and the National Desire. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. August 2012. Making Gender and Nation? The Construction of Housewives Discourses in South Korea in the 1970s. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada. March 2012. Making Revolution from the Middle: Construction of Middle-Class Narratives in Democratic Movements in South Korea and the Philippines. (with Celso Villegas) Social Science History Association Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. November 2011. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. August 2011. The Making of the Urban Middle Class in South Korea: Discipline, Nation-Building, and the Creation of Ideal National Subjects. International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology. Gothenburg, Sweden. July 2010. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. April 2010. Democracy without Labor? The Dynamics of Labor Politics since Democratization in South Korea. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. April 2008. Contested Politics of Economic Reform in South Korea and China. GPD Summer Fieldwork Workshop. Watson Institute, Brown University, Providence, RI. October 2007.
7 Biopolitics of Family Planning: Disciplinary Development in South Korea in the 1960s-80s. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York, NY. August 2007. Family Planning in South Korea in the 1960s-80s: Power, Development, and Discipline. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. March 2007. Class Politics as a Ruling Strategy: Working Class Exclusion and Middle Class Inclusion during the Park Chung Hee Regime in South Korea. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada. August 2006. Inter-Ivy Sociology Symposium. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. April 2006. TEACHING Instructor Department of Political Science, University of Hawai i, Mānoa Introduction to Global Studies (Spring 2017) Global/Comparative Politics (Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018) Comparative Politics of East Asia (Fall 2017, Spring 2014) Korean Politics through Film (Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2015) Political Inquiry and Analysis (Spring 2019) Senior Seminar (Fall 2018) Comparative Politics (Grad seminar, Fall 2016) Asian Politics (Grad seminar, Fall 2014, Spring 2018) Department of Sociology, Rhode Island College Society and Social Behavior (Fall 2012) Minority Issues (Fall 2012) Crime and Criminal Justice (Fall 2012/Spring 2013) Global Issues (Spring 2013) Research Methods I (Spring 2013) Summer Studies Program, Brown University Work in the Global Economy (Summer 2010-2013) Introduction to Sociology (Summer 2011) Teaching Assistant Department of Sociology, Brown University Globalization and Social Conflict (Spring 2012) American Heritage: Democracy, Inequality, and Public Policy (Fall 2010) Organizational Theories in Private and Public Sectors (Fall 2006 & 2009) Comparative Development (Spring 2008) Corporations and Global Cities (Fall 2007) Social Inequality and Exclusion (Spring 2007) Introductory Statistics for Social Research (Fall 2005, Spring 2006 & Spring 2010)
8 Department of Sociology, Yonsei University Introduction to Sociology (Fall 2002) Social Stratification (Fall 2001) Social Psychology (Spring 2001) Invited Guest Lectures From Miracle to Mirage: The Making and Unmaking of the Korean Middle Class (graduate seminar) Scope and Methods: Korea (Dr. Young-A Park), Department of Asian Studies, UH Mānoa. November 15, 2017. Writing a Qualitative Research Paper (writing workshop for graduate students) Department of Sociology, Yonsei University, Korea. July 31, 2017. Beneath the Miracle: Economic Development and Labor in Korea (undergraduate lecture) Department of Sociology, University of Seoul, Korea. July 18, 2017. Doing Research on Korea (graduate seminar) Korean Diaspora from a Sociological Perspective (Dr. Sharon Yoon), Korean Studies Program, Ewha Womans University, Korea. June 5, 2017. Precarious Korea: Economic Crisis and Social Inequality (undergraduate lecture) Introduction to Korean Film (Dr. Youngmin Choe), Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California. February 11, 2016. Graduate Student Advising Hoyoon Jung (Political Science, PhD Dissertation committee member, 2016- ) Hana Kim (Political Science, PhD Dissertation committee member, 2019- ) Sukyoung Myung (Political Science, PhD Dissertation committee member, 2017- ) Changwon Yang (Political Science, PhD Dissertation committee member, 2019- ) Keith Scott (Sociology, PhD Dissertation committee member, 2017- ) Michael O Kelley (Political Science, MA thesis reader, 2014 Spring) INTENSIVE LANGUAGE TRAINING Princeton University, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China Princeton-In-Beijing Program Chinese language program; Summer 2008 (3 nd yr. level) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Level III Teaching Certificate: Professional Development Seminar, Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Brown University, 2010-11. Level II Teaching Certificate: Classroom Tools Seminar, Harriet W. Sheridan Center for
9 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Brown University, 2011-12. Bridging Knowledge and Power: GIS for Social Science Research Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) Institute, Brown University, 2008. Level I Teaching Certificate: Sheridan Teaching Seminar, Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Brown University, 2006-07. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Department Member, Assessment Committee (2018-19) Member, Admission Committee (2017-18) Chair, Professional Development/Teaching Liaison Committee (2016-17) Member, Curriculum Committee (2014-15) Member, Award/Hiring Committee (2018-19, Spring 2014) Panel discussant, Department colloquium A Global Wave of Trumpism? Populism and Right-Wing Politics in America and the World (April 2017) University Member, Core University Program for Korean Studies, Center for Korean Studies (2018- ) Korean Film Series Organizer, Living Apart? Apartments in Korean Cinema (Fall 2014) and Castaways in Korean Society (Spring 2015) Member, Scholarship Committee, Center for Korean Studies (Spring 2014, 2016-18) Member, Research and Grants Committee, Center for Korean Studies (2018-19) Member, Korean Studies Postdoc Search Committee, Center for Korean Studies (2018-19) Profession Best Book Award Committee, Sociology of Development Section, American Sociological Association, 2014 Editorial Board Member, Contact Zone Humanities Book series, Center for Reconciliation and Coexistence in Contact Zones, Korea Reviewer for Korean Studies, Urban Affairs Review, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, American Quarterly, Sociological Perspectives, British Journal of Sociology, Dissertation Reviews, Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy, European Journal of Development Research, Populism, University of California Press, Routledge Conference Workshop Organizer, Beyond Income Inequality: Exploring Multiple Dimensions of Inequality in South Korea at the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai i, Mānoa. January 31-February 1, 2019. Workshop Organizer, Labor Politics and Growing Inequality in South Korea: A Comparative Perspective at the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai i,
10 Mānoa. March 5-6, 2018. Workshop Co-organizer (with Hagen Koo), Social Inequality and Cleavages in Korea at the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai i, Mānoa. December 2016. Panel Organizer (with Eileen Otis), Becoming Middle Class: Creating the Class Subject in Comparative Perspective at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. March 2015. Inter-Ivy Sociology Symposium Organizer, graduate student research conference. 2006-07. Community Lecturer for the College of Social Science Lecture Series at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Hawai i, Mānoa (gave a lecture for senior citizens). April 2, 2018. Interviewer/Reviewer for the Korean Government Scholarship Program, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea-Honolulu. March 27, 2018. Introductory remark on the movie The Mayor at the Honolulu Museum of Art Korean Cinema Program. September 9, 2017. Interviewed for Hawai i Public Radio on the CKS Film Series Castaways in Korean Society. February 3, 2015. (http://hpr2.org/post/castaways-korean-society) MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Sociological Association Association for Asian Studies International Sociological Association Social Science History Association 2004-present 2007-present 2008-present 2011-present LANGUAGES English: Fluent Korean: Native Chinese: Proficient