Officers

President:              

Stephanie Choi, Asia Research Institute, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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: 

Sunhong Kim, University of Michigan

Research: Sustainable practices in traditional Korean music performance, musical genealogies, gender roles, performance, and emotion embodied through sound.

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: 

R. Anderson Sutton, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa*

Research: Music and musical hybridity in South Korea; aesthetics and collaborative processes in intercultural composition, music and media in South Korea and Indonesia. 

*Try to maintain the glottal stop (reverse apostrophe) between the two "i"s in Hawaii and the long vowel macron over the first "a" in Manoa. 

Student Member-at-Large: 

Sora Woo, University of California, San Diego

Research: Interdisciplinary cultural studies, history, literature, languages, philosophy, popular music, electronic music, and the musicking of Asian American women. 

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.