PARK, Eun-A<\/p>\n
Ph.D. in Political Science<\/p>\n
Assistant Professor<\/p>\n
Memory Infrastructures and Transnational Advocacy in East Asia<\/p>\n
This project investigates how human rights NGOs, museums, and advocacy groups in South Korea and Japan construct and institutionalize memory in relation to North Korea, and how these processes shape the prospects for peace and reconciliation in East Asia. While much scholarship has examined North Korean human rights through the lens of international law, humanitarianism, or geopolitics, less attention has been paid to what I call \u201cmemory infrastructures\u201d- victims\u2019 testimonies, museums, archives, transnational advocacy campaigns that give shape and legitimacy to justice claims. By developing a theory of memory infrastructures, this project aims to answer three core questions:
\n1) How do North Korean defectors\u2019 NGOs and Japanese abductee NGOs frame testimonies and mobilize narratives of justice?
\n2) How do museums institutionalize memory, and with what consequences for narrative legitimacy and reconciliation?
\n3) How do these local\/regional actors interact with transnational advocacy networks (TANs), and what does this reveal about the asymmetries and opportunities of global governance in East Asia?
\nBy addressing these questions, the research reframes human rights activism not only as a matter of legal norms or humanitarian relief, but as a deeply historical and political struggle over memory, victimhood, and legitimacy.<\/p>\n
Education<\/strong><\/p>\n Academic Employment<\/strong><\/p>\n Comparative Politics of Citizenship, Coethnic\/Diaspora migration, Transnational advocacy, Memory Politics, East Asian Politics and Society, Qualitative and Multi Methods<\/p>\n Lee, A., Park, E.A.., & Jo, H, \u201cSocial Comparison Concerns and Competitive Attitudes of North Korean Refugees and South Koreans: Measurement Invariance and Latent Mean Differences\u201d, Japanese Psychological Research, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Myeong, A., Lee, A., Park, E.A.., Gong, Y.E., Kim, M.,& Jo, H., \u201cPsychosocial-Adjustment Needs of North Korean Refugee Youth from the Perspectives of Alternative-School Members\u201d, Journal of Refugee Studies, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Book<\/span><\/p>\n (Edited volume<\/span><\/span>): Lee, A., Park, E.-A., Jo, H.,” <\/i>Questioning Conventional Assumptions of Competition Dynamics\u201d, Cambridge University Press, May 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Traveling, Hiking, Singing<\/p>\n American Political Science Association(APSA) Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship Award, Korean American Educational Commission (KAEC), 2019-2021 Name PARK, Eun-A Degree Ph.D. in Political Science Status Assistant Professor Research Topic Memory Infrastruc […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22016,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645\/revisions\/22016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n 2026<\/td>\n PhD in Political Science, University of California, Riverside<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2017<\/td>\n MA in Political Science, Yonsei University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2014<\/td>\n BA in Political Science, Yonsei University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n\n
\n 2024<\/td>\n University of California-Riverside, Instructor of Record (Lecturer)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2024<\/td>\n University of California-Riverside, Research Assistant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2021-2025<\/td>\n University of California \u2013 Riverside, Teaching Assistant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2020-2023<\/td>\n Research Project Supported by the Academy of Korean Studies, Research Assistant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2018<\/td>\n Yonsei University, Research Assistant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Fields of Research Interests<\/h5>\n
Academic Publications<\/h5>\n
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Other Interests<\/h5>\n
Affiliated Academic Organizations<\/h5>\n
\n<\/span>International Political Science Association(IPSA)
\n<\/span>Association of Korean Political Studies (AKPS)
\n<\/span>International Studies Association (ISA)<\/span><\/p>\nAwards<\/h5>\n
\nAmerican Political Science Association, Asia Pacific Fellowship, December 2020
\nKorean Studies Grant Program of the Academy of Korean Studies, 2020-2023 (AKS-2020-R11)
\nPolitical Science Department, University of California – Riverside, Gabbert Funds Department Graduate Student Research Award, Dissertation Research Support, 2023-2024
\nCenter for Ideas and Society, University of California-Riverside, Jean Rowe Warnke Research Award, April 2023-December 2023
\nPolitical Science Department, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, Brain Korea Plus 21-Merit Based, March-July 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"