Teaching

I teach courses on migration, membership, and South Korean society in the Department of Sociology and the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale. My teaching is driven by the same questions that animate my research: how states define who belongs, how institutions shape the lives of people navigating those boundaries, and how individuals and communities respond to exclusion.

In my courses, students engage with scholarship across sociology, political science, law, area studies, and cultural studies, and work to connect structural analysis with the lived experiences of citizens and noncitizens. Whether the focus is South Korea’s rapid social transformations or global patterns of migration and belonging, I emphasize careful reading, rigorous argumentation, and sustained attention to the perspectives of those most affected by the systems we study.