Heangjin Park

Professor Park received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, where he was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and the College. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology from Seoul National University, South Korea. Professor Park’s research and teaching interests are broadly concerned with the global circulation of commodities, industrial production and distribution of food, and nationalism in contemporary Northeast Asia. Based on his ethnographic research in a kimchi company in China, his book project Manufacturing “Korea” in China examines transborder mobilities and nationalist worldviews across South Korea and China. As a visual anthropologist, he combines photography, ethnographic film, and media analysis to explore the aesthetic configuration of cultures and nations, such as in his photographic article on Anthropology and Photography and his documentary Chejian (post-production). His research has been supported by Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Paulson Institute, and University of Chicago Center in Beijing. Professor Park is also participating in the collaborative project “Logistics in the Making of Mobile Worlds,” funded by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.