Assistant Professor of Anthropology
B.A., M.A., Yonsei University; Ph.D., University of Illinois
Yoonjung Kang is a medical anthropologist. She earned a B.A. degree in sociology and French language and literature, as well as an M.A. degree in sociology from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. She further pursued her academic journey and obtained her PhD in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining Sewanee, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on various aspects of health, care, medicine, childbirth, and reproduction, with a particular emphasis on gender, class, and ethnic/racial dynamics in South Korea and Korean diaspora communities. Currently, she is in the process of completing her first book manuscript, tentatively titled “A Plurality of Care: Women, Childbirth, and Health in Contemporary South Korea.”
