Publications

Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the Korean DMZ (2022, Duke University Press)

Reviewed in American Ethnologist, Anthropological Quarterly, Asian Studies Review, Pacific Affairs and Public Books. Featured on Campaign for the American Reader’s The Page 99 Test and the ASLE Ecocast Podcast (most listened to episode in 2023).

  • 2024 James B. Palais Book Prize, Committee on Korean Studies, Association of Asian Studies

Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging (2010, Duke University Press)

Reviewed in Acta Koreana, American Ethnologist, Anthropological Quarterly, Asian Studies Review, Contemporary Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of Asian American Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, Korean Quarterly, Pacific Affairs.

  • 2012 James B. Palais Book Prize, Committee on Korean Studies, Association of Asian Studies
  • 2012 Social Sciences Book Award, Association of Asian American Studies

Selected Articles and Book Chapters:

Other Publications:

  • 2018. “Flyways.” Speaking Volumes Series, edited by Franck Billé. Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, June 27. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/flyways
  • 2018. “Introducing the Ends of Adoption.” Special Issue: The Ends of Korean Adoption. Adoption & Culture 6(2) (with James Jin Kyung Lee).
  • 2018. “Introduction: Reflections on Nancy Abelmann’s Legacy.” Journal of Asian Studies 77(4): 945-952 (with Jesook Song).
  • 2014. “The Flight of Cranes: Militarized Nature at the North Korea-South Korea Border.” In Asian Environments: Connections across Borders, Landscapes, and Times. Edited by Ursula Münster, Shiho Satsuka, and Gunnel Cederlöf, RCC Perspectives (The Journal of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society), no. 3, 65-70.
  • 2013. “Making Peace with Nature: The Greening of the Korean Demilitarized Zone,” ENGAGEMENT, the blog of the Anthropology and Environment Society of the American Anthropological Association.
  • 2013. “Making Peace with Nature: The Greening of the Korean Demilitarized Zone,” ENGAGEMENT, the blog of the Anthropology and Environment Society of the American Anthropological Association. Posted June 26.
  • 2012. “Returning Cranes to North Korea.”  In “The Ecologic and the
    Politic, Nature and the Natural ––A Virtual Symposium Exploring the North Korean Environmental.” Edited by Robert Winstanley-Chesters. SINO-NK: Northeast Asia with a China-North Korea Focus.
  • 2012. “Returning Cranes to North Korea.” The Ecologic and the Politic, Nature and the Natural ––A Virtual Symposium Exploring the North Korean Environmental” Edited by Robert Winstanley-Chesters. SINO-NK: Northeast Asia with a China-North Korea Focus. Posted September 1.
  • 2010. In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee PBS/POV; Web feature on the history of adoptions from South Korea.

Selected Media Appearances