Heejeong Sohn, PhD

Director, Center for Korean Studies

Professor of Practice, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Director, Korean Studies Program

Ph.D. Stony Brook University, 2014

Geographical Areas: Korea, East Asia, Korea-US

Topic Areas:Modern & contemporary history of Korea; photography and visual studies; history of Korean language

Office: N5520 Center for Korean Studies; 1122 Humanities

Email: heejeong.sohn@stonybrook.edu

Brief Bio:
Dr. Heejeong Sohn is currently a Professor of Practice in Asian and Asian American Studies, where she directs the Korean Studies Program as well as the Center for Korean Studies. Since 2011, she has significantly expanded the program through innovative curriculum design and global study-abroad pathways. Trained as a historian of modern Korea, her research focuses on late Chosŏn and early modern Korea, with particular interests in visual culture, gender, religion, and the making of modernity. She also examines language practices and the cultural and political dynamics surrounding the division between North and South Korea. An accomplished grant writer, she has secured multimillion-dollar funding, including major federal awards and initiatives from the Academy of Korean Studies, advancing both scholarship and the institutional growth of Korean Studies at Stony Brook University.