Professional Experience
Pima County Free Public Library, Tucson, AZ
January 2025 – Present
Oversee library operations, including managing cash drawer, scheduling, supervising staff, and responding to incidents.
Manage programming budgets for presenters, events, and book purchases; coordinate bookings and order submissions.
Develop, promote, and facilitate Young Adult and Teen programs, such as Chess Club, Meditation, Nature Photography, Boba & Origami, and other activities
Create social media content using Microsoft Publisher and Canva; expand advertising reach through Tucson Weekly and TucsonTopia.
Supervise Library Associate, Pages, and summer Youth Intern; approve timesheets in Workday and conduct performance assessments.
Provide customer service and reference support to patrons.
Schedule staff and room assignments using Excel and Outlook
Lead community engagement activities, including outreach events and school tours.
Design thematic displays (e.g., Lunar New Year, Tucson Festival of Books).
Conduct research reports using R on PITS, MyPC, Decision Center, and Sierra web reports. Build Shiny dashboards using RStudio.
University of Arizona, University Information and Technology Services, CRM - Trellis, Tucson, AZ
August 2021 – October 2024
University of Arizona, University Libraries, Tucson, AZ
May 2021 – August 2021
Used mixed methods including interviews and usability tests to improve a critical search interface for the library discovery tool, Primo
Provided additional support on UX studies on the Health Sciences Library homepage
Managed research operations, including scheduling and project management.
BASIS Tucson North, Tucson, AZ
July 2016 – July 2021
Extracted and analyzed data from College Board, PowerSchool, Naviance, and Slate for annual school profile reports used by 500+ stakeholders.
Taught three sections in-person and online of College Counseling annually, covering planning, time management, interviewing, and writing.
Advised over 500 students individually in-person and online
Partnered with community organizations to organize college-related events, including STEM panels and Case Study Evenings.
University of Arizona, School of Sociology, Tucson, AZ
January 2019 – May 2019
Designed and taught SOC 300: Sociological Theory for sociology majors.
Managed Learning Management System (LMS) called D2L course site and collaborated with the Disability Resource Center (DRC) for student accommodations.
University of Pennsylvania, Center for East Asian Studies, Philadelphia, PA
August 2014 – July 2016
Supervised undergraduate qualitative coders remotely.
Peer-reviewed manuscripts and wrote for academic journals.
Bard High School Early College, Newark, NJ
July 2014 – July 2015
Designed and taught courses in World History, Sociology, Modern East Asian Society, and Music Theory.
Obtained New Jersey teaching certification (Social Studies, grades 7-12).
University of Southern California, Korean Studies Institute, Los Angeles, CA
August 2013 – July 2014
Applied for large grants through the Korea Foundation and Mellon
Managed paid research assistants on historical treaty coding project
Advised undergraduate research students and helped undergraduates apply for research grants through Student Opportunities for Academic Research (SOAR) and Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF)
Presented research at academic conferences and guest lectured
Education
MLIS, Library and Information Science, University of Arizona, 2022
PhD, Sociology, Cornell University, 2013
MA, Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences, Columbia University, 2007
BA, History and Sociology, Music minor, University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, 2005, Freie Universität Berlin – exchange student, 2004
Publications
Park, Jung Mee. "Statistics Training in Library Science: Comparing Approaches in Library & Information Science to Sociology Graduate Programs" (Journal of Education in Library and Information Science, 2021).
Park, Jung Mee & Chun-Ping Wang. "Interpreting the Maritime and Overland Trade Regulations of 1882" (International Area Studies Review, 2020).
Kane, Danielle & Park, Jung Mee. "The Puzzle of Korean Christianity" (American Journal of Sociology, 2009 – Best Article Award, ASA Comparative Historical Section).
Works in Progress
Park, Jung Mee. “Quantitative Analysis of Patron Incidents in Libraries"
Selected Teaching Experience
University of Arizona, Main Campus
· Lecturer – “Sociological Theory” (SOC 300), 2019
BASIS Tucson North
· Instructor – “College Counseling” (3 sections), 2016-2021
Bard High School Early College
· Professor – “Fundamentals in Music Theory”, 2015
· Professor – “Development of Modern East Asian Societies”, 2015
· Professor – “Introduction to Sociology”, 2014
· Professor – “Survey of World History”, 2014-2015
Cornell University
· Teaching Assistant – “Introduction to Sociology” (SOC 1101), 2013
· Teaching Assistant – "Contemporary Sociological Theory" (SOCI 3190) - a "Writing in the Majors" course, 2012
· Grader – "American Society through Film" (SOCI 1290), 2012
· Instructor – “Civilization and Its Contents” (SOC 1130) – Freshmen Writing Seminar – designing the course, teaching, and grading, 2011
· Teaching assistant – “Utopia in Theory and Practice” (SOC 1150), 2011
· Teaching assistant – “Introduction to Sociology” (SOC 1101), 2010
· Teaching assistant – “Employment, Inequality, and the Law” (SOC 3620) – a “Writing in the Majors” course, 2009
· Teaching assistant – “Culture and Politics” (SOC 248/GOVT 363), 2008
· Teaching assistant – “Problems in Contemporary Society” (SOC 207), 2007
Selected Conference Presentations
“Navigating Data in Public Libraries: Challenges & Opportunities,” Women in Data Science Tucson, March 2025
“Treaties of 1882-1899 between Chosŏn Korea and Qing China: How the Qing’s domestic crisis affected the use of International Law,” University of Arizona, School of Sociology Colloquium speaker, February 2019
“Interpreting the Maritime and Overland Trade Regulations of 1882 between Chosŏn and the Qing: How the Qing’s Domestic Crisis affected the Use of International Law,” Social Science History Association, paper session, Phoenix, AZ November 2018
“Varieties of Imperialism in 19th century Korea: Presenting law in colonial studies through treaty relations with the United States, China, and Japan,” University of Southern California Rising Stars of Korean Studies Conference, 2013
“The Korean Exception: How Sovereignty led to Colonization,” University of Southern California, Department of Sociology, Job Talk, 2013
“From Suzerainty to Sovereignty,” American Sociological Association annual meetings, historical sociology regular session, San Francisco, CA, August 2009
Skills
Data & Analysis: R, Python, SQL, Tableau, SOQL, SPSS, STATA, JMP
Library Tools: Sierra, Primo, Counting Opinions, PITS
Project Management: Agile, Jira, Confluence, Notion, GitHub
Research Methods: UX, surveys, A/B testing, mixed methods, statistics
Digital Analytics: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Clarity
Languages: Korean (proficient), German (intermediate), Spanish (basic)
Professional Associations
Arizona Library Association (AzLA)
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) formerly
Academic Service
Peer Reviewer for Geopolitics, American Journal of Sociology, and International Journal of Comparative Sociology
Sage Fellowship also in 2006-2007, 2010, 2012 (total $41,000)
Graduate School Conference Travel Grant (total $1,500), 2008/09/12
Writing in the Majors course stipend ($1400) and Teaching Writing course stipend ($5,500), 2009/2011
American Sociological Association’s Comparative Historical Section, Best article co-winner, 2011
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Jerome M. Clubb Scholarship for Quantitative History in Ann Arbor, MI ($5,000), 2011
Mario Einaudi Center Summer Travel Grant for studies in Germany also in 2009 (total $1,000), 2011
Center for Teaching Excellence Master Teaching Assistant ($1,000), 2010-2011
East Asia Program, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Korean ($21,000), 2008-2009
Full-year Asian Language Concentration, Summer FLAS for Japanese language studies ($10,000), 2008
UX@UA – Leadership, mentoring, and event planning
Alumni Interviewer – University of Pennsylvania & Cornell University
Banner University Medical Center – Surgery waiting room & Child Life volunteer