Faculty Profiles
Suyun Choi
Assistant Professor
229 Spes Unica Hall
schoi@saintmarys.edu
Education
PhD, Emory University
MA, Ewha Women's University (South Korea)
BA, Seoul National University (South Korea)
Research Interests
- Gendered migration
- Global intimacy
- Neoliberal governmentally
- Korean studies
- Care Work
Courses Recently Taught
- GWS 207: Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies
- GWS 333: Transnational Feminism
- GWS 350: Feminist Theory
- GWS 360: Doing Feminism—Issues in Research and Practice
- GWS 390: Covid-19: Care and Control
Creative and Scholarly Work
- Choi, Suyun, "The Marriage of Care Labor and Self-Care: Marriage migration and neoliberal refashioning of care in South Korea," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 48(4):991-1013. 2023
- Choi, Suyun. “Governing through Support: Migrant women’s affective labor and government services for migrant workers in South Korea,” Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, 25(3): 352-374. 2019
- Choi, Suyun. “Going into Labor: Gender, Migration and Neoliberal Governance in South Korea,” awarded the Desertion Award of the Association for Feminist Anthropology (AFA), 2018
- Choi, Suyun. Shifting Migration in Asian Context, Asian Women, 29 (1): 105-9. 2013
- Choi, Suyun. “Equality at the Boundaries of Liberal Democracy: Perspectives from Women’s Movement Involved in Legislation of Anti-Discrimination Law,” Social Research, 20: 7-34. (in Korean, awarded as the 2011 distinguished article). 2010
Professional Memberships
- National Women's Studies Association
- American Anthropological Association
- Korean Association of Women's Studies
- Association for Asian Studies