Ji-Hyun AHN
Associate Professor of Media Cultural Studies
Graduate School of Communication & Arts
Yonsei University
Seoul, South Korea
연세대학교 커뮤니케이션대학원 | 미디어문화연구 전공
*pronouns: she, her*
About Me
I am an Associate Professor of Media Cultural Studies in the Graduate School of Communication & Arts at Yonsei University. Prior to joining Yonsei, I was a faculty member at the University of Washington Tacoma (2013–2026), where I taught as both an Assistant and Associate Professor.
My overall research interrogates the intersections of race, nation, and media in East Asia. My first monograph, Mixed-Race Politics and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in South Korean Media (2018), examined how the increased visibility of mixed-race Koreans formulates a particular racial project in contemporary South Korean media. Moving forward, my forthcoming second book, Anti-Korea: The Cultural Politics of Aversion and the Making of New East Asia, explores the rise of anti-Korean sentiment in postcolonial East Asia.
As a recognized expert in the field, I previously served as a Distinguished Speaker of Korean Studies for the Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (2020–2023).
Research Highlights
