Service

In addition to my research and university teaching, I aim to provide service to my profession, to students, and to the wider community via outreach to the media, public speaking, community teaching, mentoring, peer reviewing, the production and editing of publications, the planning and management of conferences and other events, the organizing and chairing of conference panels, and organizational leadership.

Media Outreach

Consultation for and quotation in “South Korea’s approach to secretive church could backfire, analyst says,” by Elizabeth Shim, UPI, 5 March 2020.

Public Lectures, Panels, & Webinars

Panel Speaker, “Chairman Lee, Shincheonji, and COVID 19: The Verdict,” webinar hosted by Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), February 2021 – Watch the full webinar on YouTube

Featured Speaker, “Covering North Korea: Analysis, Journalism, Scholarship,” December 2019, hosted by ThiNK at Yale, Yale University

Panel Speaker, “A More Credible Deterrent?: Nuclear and Missile Developments in North Korea, 2016,” at “Missiles, Nukes, Markets, Madman?: North Korea in 2016,” October 2016, University of Pennsylvania

Teaching in the Community

Instructor, Sunday School “Korean History Lecture Series,” January 2020–TBD, Connecticut Korean Presbyterian Church

Featured Speaker, “The ‘Other’ Korea: What is North Korea Really Like?” September 2021, Bristol Public Library

Guest Speaker, “Religions of Korea,” December 2019, in Sunday School, Connecticut Korean Presbyterian Church

Featured Speaker, “North Korea: What Do We Know?,” at “Basketball Diplomacy and the North Korean Mind: Film and Discussion,” November 2016, World Affairs Council of Philadelphia

Mentoring & Advising

Service to School Ambassador: Mentor advising military veterans and separating service members on the process of applying to college and graduate school.

Divinity Doctoral Liaison: Liaison as Yale Religious Studies PhD student advising and educating Yale Divinity School students interested in PhD studies, 2020–2021

ThiNK at Yale Graduate Advisor: Serving as an advisor to the board of Yale undergraduate-run group There’s Hope in North Korea (ThiNK) at Yale

East Asian Studies Senior Project Language Support Program Tutor: Providing assistance and translation checks for Yale undergraduates utilizing Korean-language sources for senior projects/theses

Yale Graduate-Undergraduate Mentorship Initiative (GUMI) Mentor: Graduate mentor for Yale undergraduates with shared academic and professional interests

Peer Reviewing

Yale Undergraduate Research Journal: Reviewer of undergraduate papers submitted by Yale students, reviewing papers on Korean religion, history, and politics

Publication Production & Editing

Editor-in-Chief, Penn Asian Review, Vol. 7 (Spring 2017)

Associate Editor, Penn Asian Review, Vol. 5 (Spring 2015), Vol. 6 (Spring 2016), and Vol. 8 (Spring 2018)

Editor, Defense/Military Affairs, NK News and NK Pro

Conference Organizing & Management

Conference Organizing Committee Chair and Conference Host/MC, “Bodies and Borders: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Excision in East Asia,” East Asian Languages and Civilizations Graduate Student Conference, April 2018, University of Pennsylvania

Conference Organizing Committee, “Myth, Management, and Materiality in East Asia,” East Asian Languages and Civilizations Graduate Student Conference, April 2019, University of Pennsylvania

Conference Organizing Committee, “Structure & Subordination: Law, Science, and Religion in East Asia,” East Asian Languages and Civilizations Graduate Student Conference, April 2017, University of Pennsylvania

Conference MC, “5th Yale-Ewha Conference,” October 2019, Yale University

Panel Organizing & Chairing

Panel Organizer, “Nation, Religion, and Society in Modern Korea,” New England Association for Asian Studies Conference, 2021, Harvard University

Panel Organizer, “COVID-19 in Japan and Korea: Disability, Religion, and Political Change,” New England Association for Asian Studies Conference, October 2020, University of Vermont

Panel Organizer and Chair, “Colonialism, Christianization, and Community: Understanding Transnational Interactions in 20th Century Korea,” 47th Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference, November 2018, Elizabethtown College

Panel Chair, “5th Yale-Ewha Conference,” October 2019, Yale University

Organizational Leadership

Coordinator, Korean Studies Reading Group, 2022–2023, Yale University

Chair, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Graduate Student Research Colloquium, 2017–2018, University of Pennsylvania

Founder and President, Penn East Asian Studies Student Association, 2016–2017, University of Pennsylvania

President, University of Pennsylvania Student Veteran Association, 2017–2018, University of Pennsylvania