2023.12 – 2025.11 President-elect/Vice President, Society for East Asian Anthropology
2020. 1 – 2021.12 Director of the Social Sciences Library, Seoul National University
2016. 9 – 2020. 5 Founding Editor, Korean Anthropology Review: A journal of Korean anthropology
in translation2016. 1 – 2016. 2 Research Residency Fellow, International Forum for U.S. Studies,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
2015. 9 – 2017. 2 Chair, Department of Anthropology, Seoul National University
2014. 9 – Present Professor, Department of Anthropology, Seoul National University
2014. 3 – 2016. 2 Director, Institute for Cross-Cultural Studies, Seoul National University
2009. 9 – 2010. 8 Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
2008. 4 – 2014. 8 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Seoul National University
2003. 9 – 2008. 3 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Seoul National University
2002. 9 – 2003. 8 Researcher, Center for Ethnological Studies, Hanyang University
2002. 3 – 2002. 8 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for American Studies, Dongeui University
1995. 9 – 2001. 8 (Ph.D.) Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
1988. 3 – 1992. 2 (M.A.) Department of Anthropology, Seoul National University
1984. 3 – 1988. 2 (B.A.) Department of English Education, Pusan National University
North Korean Studies
2023. 북한의 민속 2: DB 해제집. [Folk Culture in North Korea 2: A Guide to the North Korea Folk
Culture Data Base]. Jeong Won Kang, ed. Seoul: Minsokwon. (Co-investigator)
2022. Family as a Model for a Religious Community: An Intercultural Conversation
between North Korea’s Juche and US Evangelical Christianity. American Religion 4(1): 79-92.
2020. Family Metaphors in Religion: Cases from the Korean Peninsula. American Religion
(supplement I). https://american-religion.org/askewjung.
2020. 북한 조직생활 의례와 사회적 장의 정치화 [The Drafting of the Social into the Political
in North Korea: The Case of Conduct Review Session]. Korean Cultural Anthropology
53(1): 149-178.
2014. 북한 가족주의체제의 모성적 토대: 보건의료부문을 중심으로 [The Maternal Foundation
of the North Korean Family State: The Case of the Medical Care Sector].
Journal of Peace and Unification Studies 6(1): 81-117.
2013. Jucheism as an Apotheosis of the Family: The Case of the Arirang Festival. Special
Issue, North Korea and Religion. Journal of Korean Religions 4(2): 93-122.
2013. Do They Mean What They Act? Surveillance, Theatricality, and Mind-heart among
North Koreans. Acta Koreana 16(1): 87-111.
2005. 탈북 청소년들의 감정성과 남북한의 문화심리적 차이 [North Korean
Refugee Youth’s Emotionality and Its Social Implications: A Perspective from
Cultural Psychology]. Cross-Cultural Studies 11(1): 81-111.
American Studies
2022. (see the North Korean Studies section)
2011. Why Be Authentic? Psychocultural Underpinnings of Authenticity among Baby Boomers
in the United States. Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology
39(3): 279-299.
2007. Learning to Be an Individual: Emotion and Person in an American Junior High School. New York:
Peter Lang.
2007. 한 미국적 실험의 종결: 대학 교육에서의 수월성과 평등성 [A Closure of an American Experiment,
the General College: Excellence vs. Access in Higher Education]. Journal of American Studies
39(3): 263-301.
2006. Facets of Access: Students’ Impressions and Experiences in the General College. In Student
Standpoints about Access Programs in Higher Education, ed. Dana Lundell et al, 71-91.
University of Minnesota: Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban
Literacy. (co-authors: Dana Lundell and Richard Beach)
2005. 창의성에 대한 문화적 관념과 실제: 미국 중학교의 사례 [Creativity as a Higher Level of Learning
in an American School]. Journal of the Anthropology of Education 8(2): 241-267.
2004. Individualism and American Anxiety about Conformity: A Study of Adolescent Socialization for
Personhood in U. S. Journal of American Studies 36: 86-106.
2003. 감정의 민속심리학과 정치성: 중산층 미국인들의 “화” 모델을 중심으로 [Anger as Danger:
The Ethnopsychology of Anger and Its Politics among Middle-class Americans].
Korean Cultural Anthropology 36(2): 109-141.
2003. 수준별 수업과 문화자본으로서의 감정통제: 미국 중학교의 사례 [Ability Grouping and Emotional
Control as Cultural Capital in an American Junior High School]. Korean Journal of Educational
Research 41(1): 67-89.
2002. 중학생들은 미쳤어: 초기 사춘기에 대한 미국인들의 민속심리모델 [Junior Highs Are Crazy:
The American Ethnopsychology of Early Adolescence]. Cross-Cultural Studies 8(1): 3-25.
2002. 문화적 범주로서의 개인과 자기규율 훈련: 미국 개인주의의 인간관과 청소년기 사회화 과정에 대한
연구 [Individual as a Cultural Category and Self-Discipline: Socialization of Early Adolescence
in the US]. Korean Cultural Anthropology 35(1): 173-199.
2002. Developmental College Students’ Negotiation of Social Practice between Peer, Family,
Workplace, and University Worlds. In Exploring Urban Literacy and Developmental
Education, ed. Dana Lundell and Jeanne Higbee, 79-108. University of Minnesota:
Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy. (co-authors:
Richard Beach and Dana Lundell)
South Korean Studies
2021. Special Issue: Korean Psychological Anthropology. Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological
Anthropology 49(1): 1-115. (co-guesteditor: Junehui Ahn)
2021. South Korean Education Under Psychocultural Globalization. Ethos: Journal of the Society for
Psychological Anthropology 49(1): 3-10. (co-author: Junehui Ahn)
2021. Individualization, Peer Learning, and the Cultural Model of Sociality in South Korean Education:
The Case of an Educational Metaphor. Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological
Anthropology 49(1): 53-71.
2018. 『한국 가족과 친족의 인류학: 이론, 쟁점, 변화』[Anthropology of the Korean Family and Kinship:
Theoretical Considerations, Issues, and Changes]. Seoul: Seoul National University Press.
(edited volume; selected among Outstanding Academic Books by the National Academy of
Sciences, Republic of Korea)
2014. 담임학급제도에서 나타나는 가족비유와 가족주의: 지속과 변화 [Family Metaphors and Familism
in the Homeroom Institution of Korean Schools: Continuities and Changes. Cross-Cultural
Studies 20(1): 157-189.
Theories and Methodologies
2022. Vibrant Interview: Hyang Jin Jung in South Korea. Global Anthropological Dialogues:
Reflections on anthropological practice around the world. Vibrant
(Virtual Brazilian Anthropology) 19. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-43412022v19d708
2019. 공연예술의 인류학 [Anthropology of Performing Arts]. In Center for Research and Education
for Social Innovation, ed. Campus Impact 2019: Seoul National University Education Project
for Social Innovation. Seoul: Pureungil. (co-authors: Sung Kyu Son and Elisa Romero).
2018. 인간심리의 문화적 형성 [The Cultural Shaping of Human Psychology]. In Sug-In Kweon et al.,
eds. Cultural Anthropology. Seoul: Hyeongseol. (co-author: Junehui Ahn)
2013. 감정의 인류학 [The Anthropology of Emotions]. Korean Cultural Anthropology 46(3): 165-209.
2009. 서울대학교 인류학과의 연구방법교육 [Anthropological Research Methods Course at Seoul
National University]. 특집: 우리는 인류학 연구방법을 어떻게 가르치고 있는가? [Special Issue,
How Are We Teaching Anthropological Research Methods?] Korean Cultural Anthropology
42(2): 147-190.
2008. 문화적 과정으로서의 교육: 교육인류학을 위한 비판적 고찰 [Education as a Cultural Process:
A Critical Review for the Anthropology of Education]. Journal of the Anthropology of Education
11(1): 73-105.
Lectures
2021. Korean Anthropology: A Historical Contour. https://youtu.be/3l3iR7t59sM.
Miscellaneous
2022. [Book Review] Dynamics of a Rice Cultivating Village in Korea, 1977-2015.
Kim, Joo-hee. Seoul National University Press, 2018. Korean Cultural Anthropology
55(2): 237-241.
2021. Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic. American Anthropologist
123(2): 410-410.
2020. [Book Review] Emotional Worlds: Beyond an Anthropology of Emotion. Beatty, Andrew.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 314 pp. American Ethnologist 47(3): 328-329.
2019. [Commentary] Inter-Asia, Intra-Asia, and Asian Anthropologies. American Anthropologist
121(2): 506-506.
2016. Interview with Professor Hyang Jin Jung, Chair, Department of Anthropology, Seoul National
University. American Anthropologist 118(4): 838-843.
2006. [Book Review] 루시 매덕스 편, 『미국학의 이론과 실제』[Locating American Studies:
The Evolution of a Discipline. Edited by Lucy Maddox]. American Studies 29: 363-368.
2005. [Book Review] 기 소르망, 『Made in USA: 미국 문명에 대한 새로운 시선』 [Made in USA.
Guy Sorman]. American Studies 28: 327-329.
