Core Faculty
Sungdai Cho
Director, Center for Korean Studies; Professor, Korean and Linguistics; Professor, Korean and Linguistics; Graduate Director
Sonja M. Kim
Director; Associate Professor, Department Chair
Ji-Song (Robert) Ku
Associate Professor
Kyung-Ah Kim
Lecturer
Young-il Kim
Lecturer
Suzy Lee
Assistant Professor and Director, MS in Human Rights
Affilliated Faculty
Jeffner M. Allen
Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Research Interests
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John Cheng
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Teaching Interests
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David L. Cingranelli
Professor; Co-Director, Human Rights Institute; Co-Director
Research Interests
- Human rights
Research Interests
- East Asia
- History of science
- Environmental history
- Nation and empire
Research Interests
- Experimental methods in social science
- Political psychology
- Comparative political behavior
- Comparative authoritarianism
- The United States, East Asia, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Teaching Interests
- Comparative authoritarianism
- Comparative politics of Asia
- Democratic decay in the United States
- Survey and experimental methods
Suk-Young (John) Kang
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Depression and health status among Asian immigrant elders
- Family caregiving
- Social justice for immigrants and refugees
- Depression among Asian Americans
- Technology and Aging
Hoe Kyeung Kim
Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Research Interests
- Teacher education and assessment
- L2 writing
- Bilingual and Multilingualism
- Korean L2 learning
- Educational technology
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Hyejung Kim
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Intersectionality of multi-layered vulnerabilities including dis/abilities
- Educational equity
- Students with autism and other neurodevelopmental dis/abilities
- Postsecondary transition from high school to adulthood
Research Interests
- Auditory cognitive neuroscience
- Human speech perception and communication
- Auditory attention, working memory, and category learning
- Neural dynamics and functional networks through fMRI and EEG
Research Interests
- Molecular anthropology
- Forensic genetics
- Malaria
- epidemiology; Melanesia
- Melanesia
Research Interests
- Customer Analytics
- Digital Marketing
- Probability Models
Teaching Interests
- Data Driven Marketing
- Marketing Research
- Marketing Models
Research Interests
- National identity and nationalism; international borders and frontiers; ethnicity and ethnic conflict; political ritual and symbolism; commercial farming; agrarian economic strategies and politics; public policy and interest group formation; local government and political parties; cinema and popular culture; European integration; the borderlands of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hungary, Canada, and the United States.
Yi Wang
Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Research Interests
- Late Imperial China
- borderlands
- migration
- nationalism
Research Interests
- Child maltreatment research
- Peer relationships
- Adolescent risk behaviors
- Adolescent development