Photo: Display of Signs and Society journal at the AAA book exhibit
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Seoul, South Korea
HK (“Humanities Korea”) Professor, 2023-present
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Seoul, South Korea
HK (“Humanities Korea”) Associate Professor, 2018-2022
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Seoul, South Korea
HK (“Humanities Korea”) Assistant Professor, 2012-2017
University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA
Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, 2010-2011
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ph.D., Anthropology, December 2010
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
M.I.S., American Studies, Graduate School of International Studies, August 2000
Seoul Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea
B.A., English Language and Literature, February 1996
National Research Foundation of Korea
“Humanities Korea + (HK+) Research Center” Project Grant, 2021-2028
Nadel Essay Prize, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Australian National University
Awarded for the article “Translating ‘Sustainability’ in Hawai‘i: The Utility of Semiotic Transformation in the Transmission of Culture,” 2014
National Research Foundation of Korea
“Humanities Korea (HK) Research Center” Project Grant, 2012-2020
University of Pennsylvania. School of Arts & Sciences
Dissertation Fellowship, 2007-2008
University of Hawai‘i Foundation
Scholars & Interns Program Research Fellowship, 2006
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Individual Research Grant for Dissertation Fieldwork, 2004
University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology
Summer Field Funds, 2004
University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts & Sciences
William Penn Fellow, 2001-2004
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Graduate School of International Studies Scholarship, 1998-1999
Email: knkoh[at]hufs.ac.kr
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