Award
The AKSA Graduate Student Paper Award
The AKSA Graduate Student Paper Award is given for an outstanding graduate student paper on a topic of Korea or Koreans/ Korean Diaspora (all broadly defined) in English. The work should be either published (or forthcoming) in an English language journal in 2021-2023 or of publishable quality. Authors may nominate themselves, or other AKSA members may do so. The author(s) must be a member of the AKSA at the time of submission. The graduate student must be the first author of the paper.
To nominate a paper, email (1) a PDF file of the paper to the chair of the award committee, Soo-Yeon Yoon (yoons@sonoma.edu). Please include in your email (2) a one-paragraph description of how the paper meets the eligibility criteria and (3) contact information for the nominee (including email address). The submission deadline is Wednesday, May 31, 2023.
The members of the 2023 Graduate Student Paper Award Committee are:
Soo-Yeon Yoon (Sonoma State University)
Kelly Chong (University of Kansas)
Yoonkyung Lee (University of Toronto)
Past Recipients of the AKSA Graduate Student Paper Award
2023
Chelle Jones (University of Michigan), “Jigsaw Migration: How Mixed Citizenship LGBTQ Families (Re)Assemble their Fragmented Citizenship.”
Sejin Um (Honorable Mention, New York University), “The Militarized Workplace: How Organizational Culture Perpetuates Gender Inequality in Korea.”
2021
Carolyn Choi (Dartmouth), “Segmented Pathways of Educational Migration: Stifled, Stepwise, Contradictory Stepwise English Travel, Education, and Labor Migration among South Korean Youth in the Asia-Pacific.”
2020
No Award due to Covid-19.
2019
Yang-Sook Kim (Univ. of Toronto), “Care Work and Ethnic Boundary Marking in South Korea”
Yewon Andrea Lee (UCLA), “Reframing Gentrification: How Tenant Shopkeepers’ Activism in Seoul Radically Reframed Gentrification”
2018
Minwoo Jung (USC), “Urban Inequality and Belonging of Young Adults in South Korea"
Juhee Woo (CU-Boulder), "Gendered Stigma Management among Young Adult Women Smokers in South Korea"
2017
Eunsil Oh (Harvard), “Who Deserves to Work? How Women Develop Expectations of Childcare Support in South Korea”
2016
Sehwa Lee (SUNY-Albany), “Becoming Responsible Fathers in Transnational Setting: An Analysis of Middle-Class Korean Wild Geese Fathers”
Juyeon Park (Honorable Mention, UMass-Amherst), “Who Draws the Big Picture? Gendered Intensive Parenting of Korean Students at U.S. Elite Colleges”
2015
Seongsoo Choi (Yale), “When Everyone Goes to College: The Causal Effect of College Expansion on Earnings”
2014
Eun Kyung Shin (Columbia), “The Morphology of Resistance: Korean Resistance Networks 1895-1945”