Choong-Hwan Park

Curriculum Vitae

Winter 2002

                                                           

 

 

 

Department of Anthropology                                                                                                   771 Juniper Walk, Apt. H

University of California                                                                                                          Goleta, CA 93117 USA

Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA                                                                                               Local Phone: (805) 971-5904

Department Office: (805) 893-2516                                                                                       hanam@umail.ucsb.edu

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                             

MAJOR RESEARCH FIELDS

 

Social-Cultural Anthropology: Modernization and Modernity in China; Changing Temporality and Spatiality in post-Reform China; History and Social Memory.

 

Critical-Historical Anthropology: Ethnographic Criticisms; Literary Approach to Ethnographic Writings; Historicity and Temporality in Anthropological Theories

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                  

EDUCATION

 

Sep. 2001                     PhD., Anthropology – Expected June 2007

                                    University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Dec. 2000                     Graduated from the University of Chicago with an MA degree in Social Sciences (MA paper: Primordializing China: Illusion of Guanxi and Invitation to Modernity)

 

Feb. 1995                     Graduated from Kyungpook National University (Taegu, Korea) with an MA degree in Cultural Anthropology (MA paper: A Study on Cultural Contact between Korean and Foreign Migrant Workers in Korea)

 

Feb. 1992                     Graduated from Kyungpook National University with a BA degree in Archaeology and Anthropology.

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

 

Teaching Assistant

 

Sep. 2001 – Dec. 2001  Anthropology 111: “Anthropology of Food”

                                    Prof. Francesca Bray

 

Teaching Associate

 

Jan. 2002 – Mar. 2002   Korean 121B: “Advanced Korean”

                                    Korean 7A: “Korean Word-processing”

Mar. 2002 – Jun. 2002   Korean 121c: “Advanced Korean”

                                    Korean 7B: “Korean Word-processing-II”

                                   

Lecturer

 

Mar. 1997 – Aug. 1999  “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” (Kyungpook National University)

 

Mar. 1997 – Aug. 1997  “Korean Ethnology” (Pusan National University)

 

Mar. 1996 – Aug. 1996  “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” (Kyemyung University)

 

 

WORK AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

 

Dec. 1999 – Apr. 2000   Library Assistant (University of Chicago Library)

 

Apr. 2000 – Nov. 2000 Assistant Interviewer (National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago)

 

Mar. 1995 – Feb. 1997  Department Staff (Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at Kyungpook National University)

 

Sep. 1994 – Mar. 1996  Research Assistant for the research project of “Foreign Migrant Workers in Korea” (Korean Academic Development Foundation)

 

May. 1988 – Jul. 1990   Military Service in Korean Augmentation Troops to the US Army

 

POSSIBLE LANGUAGES

 

                                    Korean (native), English, Chinese, and Japanese