My research focuses on using international migration as a case study to understand migrants’ sense of belonging and homemaking practices. Currently, I am working on a book project that builds on 32 months of immersive and extended ethnography in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to examine temporary migrants’ sense of belonging through a framework of “performance of cosmopolitanism.” This illustrates how temporary migrants build their homes in legal, social, and temporal sense in their host communities despite the state policies that frame them to be “temporary.”
| 2023 – | Postdoctoral Fellow, Tokyo College, University of Tokyo |
| 2023 | Ph.D., Sociology, University of California San Diego |
| 2023 | Global Exchange Fellow, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration,Toronto Metropolitan University |
| 2020 – 2023 | Graduate Student Affiliate, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California San Digo |
| 2019 – 2020 | Visiting Researcher, Division of Social Science, New York University Abu Dhabi |
| 2018 | M.A., Sociology, University of California San Diego |
| 2016 | B.A., Social Research a d Public Policy (Minors in Arabic, French, and Music), New York University Abu Dhabi |
| 2015 | Tutorat at Sciences-Po «Le XXème siècle en Europe: histoire politiques», L’Institut d’études politiques de Paris (IEP) |
Kwon, Hee Eun. “Backfire Effect: Using Hegemony to Explore Our Own Positionality.” TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology.
*2023 Graduate Student Contributions to Teaching and Learning Award, ASA Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Book Reviews
Review of Heba Gowayed’s Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 9(2): 235-236.
Review of Ji-Yeon O. Jo’s Homing: An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration in Korean Studies 44(1): 149-152.
| Awards | |
| 2023 | ASA Teaching and Learning Section Graduate Student Award |
| 2023 | UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award |
| 2016 | NYU Founders’ Day Award |
| Fellowships and Grants | |
| 2023 | Canada Excellence Research Chair Global Exchange Fellowship |
| 2022 – 2023 | UCSD Friends of the International Center Fellowship |
| 2022 | POD Network Career Development Grant |
| 2022 | UCSD Sociology Department Summer Research Grant |
| 2021 – 2022 | NYU Faculty of Arts and Science Faculty First Look Scholar |
| 2021 | UCSD Summer Graduate Teaching Scholar |
| 2021 | UC-HSI DDI Summer Writing Grant |
| 2018 – 2020 | UCSD International Institute Graduate Fellowship |
| 2018 | UCSD Transnational Korean Studies AKS Summer Grant |
