Officers

President:              

Stephanie Choi, University of Colorado Boulder

Research: popular music, digital media circulation, postcolonial feminism, immaterial labor, affective economy in South Korea and Korean diaspora.

Secretary/Treasurer:       

Bo Kyung Blenda Im, Yale Divinity School

Research: popular music and Christianity in South Korea and the Korean diaspora, Neo-Orientalist constructions of "Asia," issues of racialization, modernity, and coloniality.

Newsletter Editor: 

Sora Woo, University of California, San Diego

Research: popular musicking of Korean and Asian American women and the intersections of sound, identity, and culture.

Member-at-Large: 

Wonseok Lee, Yale University

Research:  Korean populuar music and culture, globalization, transnationalism, musical identity, media studies, border theory, posthumanism in music 

Member-at-Large: 

Chaeyoung Lee, Harvard University

Research: musical and sonic divergence in Korea; North Korean music in South Korea; freedom; neoliberalism; state; border; labor; voice; and imagination.

Student Member-at-Large: 

Abiodun Adisa, Wesleyan University

Research: African-Korean soundscapes, cultural curator, and saxophonist.

Website Manager: 

Donna Lee Kwon, University of Kentucky

Research: Site-specific expressive ecologies, p'ungmul and samulnori in South Korea and in the Korean diaspora, Korean and Asian American multivocality.

Website and Logo Designer: 

Jocelyn Clark, Pai Chai University

Research: Sanjo and byeongchang, music of place, orality, aesthetics, and contemporary "national music," performance practices in Korea, China, and Japan.