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Department of Sociology Faculty

Keumjae Park

Phone: 973.720.3562
Email: parkk4 [at] wpunj [dot ] edu
Office: Raubinger 461
Hours: WF 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.; and by appointment

 

Keumjae Park (Assistant Professor) received her B.A. in French Language and Literature from Seoul National University, South Korea, and her M.A. and Ph. D. in Sociology from Rutgers University. She regularly teaches Sociological Theory, Senior Seminar in Sociology, Social Stratification, Quantitative Methods, and Sociology of Women. She offers graduate courses, Gender in a Globalizing Society, and Contemporary Immigration to the United States. She is also the faculty coordinator for Internship Program in Sociology and Social Service.

Professor Park ’s areas of specialization include migration and transnationalism, sociology of identity, social theories and gender and feminist theories. She has conducted various studies examining how contemporary macro social processes such as stratification and globalization affect individual lives, and has published and presented papers on transnational identities, immigrant women and work, globalization and transnational family, and the significance of children on immigrant women’s life course planning. Her current research projects include a study of Korean transnational families and, on a broader cope, a comparative study of different forms of transnational families. She maintains active interests in inequalities and justice issues affecting women and minorities.

Before joining William Paterson University faculty, Professor Park had worked as a reporter for an ethnic newspaper in New York City, and taught sociology and women’s studies courses at Rutgers University and Montclair State University.

Selected articles:

“I Can Provide for My Children: Korean Immigrant Women’s Changing Perspectives on Work Outside the Home"

"Constructing Transnational Identities without Leaving Home: Korean Immigrant Women’s Cognitive Border-crossing"

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