Position: Current PhD student
School and/or Centres: Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies
Email: junghee.yang@anu.edu.au
Qualification: MSc London School of Economics (Anthropology); MA Sogang University (Chinese Culture); BA Sogang University (Mass Media, Chinese Culture)
I am a PhD student working on memory and heritage-making beyond the nation-state across East Asia. My major field site is China, where I examine reconciliation, colonial violence and long-term legacies of empire; gendered and diasporic subjectivities.
My academic path began from Media and Chinese Cultural Studies at Sogang University, which gradually led me toward broader questions of cultural politics, migration, and nationalism in East Asia. I hold an MSc China in Comparative Perspective from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where I developed my research interest in the social processes behind urban development and cultural heritage in contemporary China.
Memory and heritage-making beyond the nation-state; Reconciliation, colonial violence and long-term legacies of empire; Gendered and diasporic subjectivities in East Asia
The Social Process of Scale-making in Hainan as a Coastal Commodity Frontier. Journal of Chinese for Social Science, 2026. (In Chinese)
Can Sensory Ethnography Redistribute Authority? The Argonaut, LSE Department of Anthropology, 2026
Public Intellectuals and Their Positionality in Confronting the ‘Emotional Stranger’. In Shin, Y. et al. (eds.), Public Humanities Initiative: Converging Multiple Approaches to Discussing Public Humanities. CGSI, 2022. (In Korean)
Member of American Anthropological Association (AAA) and Australian Anthropological Society (AAS)