Dissertation Scholarships

To encourage research on Korean Americans, the Center will select three dissertations focusing on Korean Americans each year and award each $3,000 to the doctoral students.

The center will invite each of the recipients to New York City to give a presentation on his/her completed dissertation to the Korean community.

We will publicize dissertation scholarships widely through professional Internet networks; a five-member committee will select the winners through formal reviews of their proposals and C.V.s.

Recipients of the 2013 NADRI Dissertation Scholarship Awards

**For the 2013 dissertation scholarship, NADRI Incorporated (CEO Young Tae MacGyver Choi) provided a fund of $9,000.

Sou Hyun Jang, Department of Sociology, the CUNY Graduate Center, “Korean Immigrants’ Medical Tourism to Homeland”

Chunrye Kim, Doctoral Program in Criminal Justice, John Jay College, CUNY, “Intimate Partner Sexual Violence among Korean Immigrants”

Stephen Suh, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, “Nostalgic for the Unfamiliar”

Recipients of the 2012 Dissertation Scholarship Awards

Minjung Ryu, Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, University of Maryland, “Revisiting the Silence of Korean Immigrant Students: How Korean Immigrant Students Negotiate Identities, Discourses, and Learning in Science Classrooms”

Kimberly McKee, Department of Women’s Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University at Columbus, “The Transnational Adoption Industrial Complex: An Analysis of Nation, Citizenship, and the Korean Diaspora”

Young A Jung, Department of Cultural Studies, George Mason University, “Emplacing Parenting: Migration and Belonging among Korean kirogi Families”; (Korea University, Ph.D 2003, Dept. of Korean Language and Literature)

So-Young Lee, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Health Policy, Brandeis University, “Impact of Maternal Education Attainment Status on Birth Outcomes by Maternal Nativity Status of Korean Americans”

Recipients of the 2011 Dissertation Scholarship Awards

* The Global Society of Korea and America (President Henry Kang) provided a fund of $9,000 in 2011 to cover 3 dissertation scholarships.

Se Hwa Lee, Sociology, SUNY-Albany, “Korean Wild Geese Families, A New Trend of Transnational Migration: Split Household Strategies and Gender Dynamics”

In Seo Son, Sociology, Duke University, “Yellow Jobs: Race and Career Choice among Korean Americans”

Chang Won Lee, Sociology, University of Maryland, “International Migration and Income Mobility of South Korean Immigrants in the United States: A Transnational Stratification Perspective”

Chung Wan Woo, Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University, “Seeing Another/Seeing Oneself: Nondisabled Viewer Perspectives on Disability in South Korean Films”

Recipients of the 2010 Dissertation Scholarship Awards:

Kim, Youseung, University of Chicago, Social Work
“The Protective Influences of Ethnic Church Involvement on Development Among Korean American Adolescents”

Kim, Eun Young, University of the Incarnate Word, Education
“Do the Needs of Adolescents Match what Korean Schools Provide? A Sequential Mixed-Methods Study of Korean Schools in Texas”

Park, Linda Susan, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Human Development and Family Studies
“Ethnic Identity in Midlife: Exploring Socio-Historical Context, Negotiating Identity and Parenting”