Globalization and global governance, citizenship and democracy, cosmopolitanism, transnational civil society, international collaboration, East Asian politics, European Union politics, international migration, contemporary political theory, political communication.

Education

2004 University of Oxford (Mansfield College): D. Phil. in politics
D. Phil. thesis: Concepts, pathways and agendas of ‘global citizenship’ as interpreted beyond the academy.
Supervisor: Prof. David Marquand
Examiners: Dr. Stuart White and Prof. Anthony McGrew
1998 Boston College: M.A. in political science
M.A. thesis: Challenges of public deliberation: a case study of citizen participation in environmental policy.
Advisors: Prof. Kay Lehman Schlozman and Prof. John Tierney
1991 Boston University: B.A. in economics and B.S. in journalism

APPOINTMENTS

2013-present Professor of political science (tenured), Yonsei University
2008-2013 Associate professor of political science, Yonsei University
2005-2008 Assistant professor of political science, Roger Williams University
2004-2005 Visiting assistant professor of political science, Babson College
2001-2003 Adjunct assistant professor of political science, University of Massachusetts Boston, Babson College, Bryant University

FIELDS OF INTEREST

Citizenship; democracy; civil society; cosmopolitanism; nationalism; global governance; politics of Europe, East Asia and the United States; political theory; political communication.

Books

2015 “Global citizenship as a national project: The evolution of ‘segye shimin’ in South Korean public discourse.” Citizenship Studies 19(1): 53-68.
2015 “Testing the possibilities and limits of global and national public spheres: Lessons learned from the campaign to stop a military base in South Korea,” Globalizations 12(2): 169-189.
2014 “Mediating love of humanity, love of country and love of culture: A comparison of normative debates on global citizenship in the United States and South Korea,” Korea Journal 54(3): 5-32.
2014 “The pursuit of state status and the shift toward international norms: South Korea’s evolution as a host country for refugees,” Journal of Refugee Studies 27(3): 317-37. (With Jennifer McCann)
2014 “Governments and citizens in a globally interconnected world of states.” The SAGE Handbook of Globalization, Manfred B. Steger, Paul Battersby and Joseph Siracusa, eds., Sage, pp. 105-122.
2013 “Cosmopolitanisms in flux: Lingering impediments in the ‘West,’ rising interest in the ‘Rest,’ ” Il Politico (special issue on the European Union, nationalism and cosmopolitanism) 54(3): 147-68.
2012 “Solidarity as a unifying idea in shaping an East Asian community: Toward an ethos of collective responsibility,” The Pacific Review 25(4): 473-94. (With Sunhyuk Kim)
2012 Globalization and Citizenship, Rowman & Littlefield. Contribution to the globalization series edited by Manfred B. Steger and Terrell Carver.
Chapter 2, “Global media, mobilization and revolution,” reprinted in The Global Studies Reader, Manfred B. Steger, ed., Oxford University Press (2014), pp. 70-87.
2010 “Human rights, transparency and transborder collaboration in Korea: The case for a deliberative approach at the Kaesong Industrial Complex,” Pacific Focus 25(3): 417-38.
2010 “Conveying the first steps of global citizenship to children in Korea: A case study of an exhibit at the Samsung Children’s Museum,” Korean Journal of Sociology 44(6): 69-85.
2009 “External contestation in the European Union: A call for further investigation at the nexus of European institutions, civil society organizations and transatlantic relations,” The Korean Journal of International Relations 49(3): 57-73.
2009 “Global citizenship in theory and practice,” in The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad: Higher Education and the Quest for Global Citizenship, Ross Lewin, ed., Routledge, pp. 3-20.
2009 “Review of Solidarity: From Civic Friendship to a Global Legal Community and Democracy Across Borders: From Dêmos to Dêmoi,” Perspectives on Politics 7(2): 395-96.
2009 “Bringing the world to the rising sun: Review of Japan’s Global Future: An Agenda for Global Citizenship,” Global Asia 4(2): 98-101.
2008 “Education for global citizenship: Illustrations of ideological pluralism and adaptation,” Journal of Political Ideologies 13(1): 73-94.
2008 The Practices of Global Citizenship, Rowman & Littlefield.
2005 “Communicating global citizenship: Multiple discourses beyond the academy,” Citizenship Studies 9(2): 119-33.
2003 “Bringing perceptions from the ‘global village’ into American political science courses,” PS: Political Science & Politics 36(2): 433-36.