SHIN, DONGEUN

RESEARCH INTEREST

• State-Society Relations, Politics of Death, Nationalism, Memory Politics, Comparative Politics, Refugees, Migration

EDUCATION

• Feb. 2025 | Ph.D. in Political Science, Yonsei University, South Korea 

Doctoral Dissertation: The Politics of Death: Performances of the state, memory, and the national in South Korea 

• Feb. 2019 | M.A. in Political Science, Yonsei University

Master's Thesis: A Study on the Formation of the Korean National Cemeteries: Focusing on the Renegotiations Between the State and Society

• Feb. 2015 | B.A. in International Relations, Yonsei University 

• Dec. 2014 | Exchange Student, ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania (One-Year Program)

RESEARCH∙WORK EXPERIENCE

• 2025 – Present | Senior Researcher, Kangwon Institute for Unification Studies, Kangwon National University 

• 2023 - 2024 | Researcher, Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies

• 2021 - 2024 | Administrative Secretary, The Korean Society for Political Thought

• Spring 2019 | Editorial Assistant, Journal of Korean Unification Studies (KCI-Accredited Journal) 

• 2016 - 2019 | Associate Researcher, Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies

• 2016 - 2017 | Research Assistant, Institute of State Governance Studies, Yonsei University

PUBLICATIONS

• Shin, Dongeun, Seoyoung Choi. 2025.  "Same Language, Different Voices: Discrimination Experiences of Marriage Migrant Women at the Intersection of Korean Language Proficiency and Income Level." Discourse 201 28(2). 171-208. [in Korean]

• Shin, Dongeun. 2020. “Boundaries of the Korean National Cemetery and the Politics of Memory.”  Culture and Politics. 7(2). 101-131. [in Korean]

• Kim, Hyeonjun, Dongeun Shin, and Hwanbi Lee. 2018. “Future for All of Us? : 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Game and the Cultural Manifestation of the State .” Culture and Politics. 5(4). 153-199. [in Korean]

CONFERENCES

• May. 2025 | Co-Presenter, ""Same Language, Different Voices: Discrimination Experiences of Marriage Migrant Women at the Intersection of Korean Language Proficiency and Income Level," Cybercommunication Academic Society, Spring Annual Conference.

• Apr. 2025 | Presenter, "The Politics of Death: Commemoration and Performative Memory in the Nation-State," Weekly Colloquium, Seogang University, Critical Global Studies Institute.

• Feb. 2025 | Presenter, “The State’s Anxiety in the Politics of Death,” KNU International Conference: “Meth-theoretical Knowledge Cultivation in International Relations Studies and Beyond”, Department of Political Science at Kangwon National University, Kangwon Institute for Unification Studies, Institute of Social Sciences, The Korean Association of Socio-Historical Studies.

• Aug. 2024 | Presenter, “The Making of South Korean by Deaths: State Funerals, War Widows and Unmemorable Deaths,” Uji Workshop, Critical Approaches to Political Science Lab, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University & Ryukoku University Center for World Buddihst Cultures (RCWBC) Applied Research Division.

• Jul. 2023 | Presenter, "The Nationalist Manhood and War Widows in the National Cemetery", The Word Congress for Korean Politics and Society, The Korean Political Science Association, Yonsei University.

• Jan. 2023 | Presenter, "Reframing Nationalist Manhood in the National Cemetery, South Korea", Collaboration Workshop, Global Affairs Research Centre, Ryukoku University & Critical Approaches to Political Science Lab, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University.

• Jan. 2023 | Presenter, "Reframing Nationalist Manhood in the National Cemetery", The 35th Sogang-EWHA-Yonsei University Memory Research Seminar. [in Korean]

• Apr. 2022 | Presenter, "Citizenship Practices of Korean Chinese Married Migrant Women in South Korea: Moderating Effects of Country of Origin in the Relationship Between Social Status and Life Satisfaction", The 79th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference. 

• Jun. 2021 |  Co-Presenter, "Two Nationalism in Postcolonial Japan." Summer Conference, The Korean Association of International Studies. [in Korean]

• Nov. 2020 |  Presenter,  "Japanese Western National Identity and National Cemetery: Threat to Colonial Ruling Memories." International Conference on Politics and International Studies (ICPIS), Unversiti Malaysia Sabah & University of Malaya.

• Aug. 2020 | Debater, "Risk and Opportunity of National Cemetery." Policy Debate: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow of Korean National Cemetery, Co-hosted by Citizen's Solidarity for Human Rights and Min Hyeong-bae's National Assembly Office. [in Korean]

• Aug. 2020 | Presenter, "Reproduction of Mainstream Discourse in Online Civil Society: Focusing on the Tendency of Protestants to Oppose the Anti-Discrimination Law." Summer Conference, Korean Association of Party Studies. [in Korean]

• Dec. 2019 | Presenter, "A Comparative Study on the Formation Process of Antithesis of National Cemetery in Korea, the United States, and Japan: Focusing on Negotiations between the State and Society." Annual Conference, The Korean Association of International Studies. [in Korean]

• Jun. 2017 | Presenter, "North Korean Regime and Its Power-sharing in Authoritarian Rule." Summer Conference, The Korean Association of International Studies. [in Korean]

SCHOLARSHIP・GRANTS

• Jun. 2024 - May 2025 | Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Research Professor Type B, National Research Foundation of Korea, "Rituals Memorizing Presidents’ Death and Being the South Korean: Focusing on Rhee Syngman, Park Chung-hee, and Roh Moohyun's Funerals"

• Sep. 2023 - Aug. 2024 | Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Research Professor Type B, National Research Foundation of Korea, "The Making of the South Korean by Deaths"

• Sep. 2022 - Aug. 2023 | Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Research Professor Type B, National Research Foundation of Korea, "Lived Citizenship of Married Migrant Women in South Korea: The Interaction Effect of Birth-Nation and Class-Consciousness"

• Sep. 2020 - Feb. 2022 | Yonsei BK21+ Merit Scholarship, BrainKorea21, The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea

AWARDS AND CERTIFICATIONS

• 2018 Team Award of Best Paper, Academic Support Program Seminar by Yonsei University Graduate Student Association 

Title: “Future for All of Us? : 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Game and the Cultural Manifestation of the State .” Yonsei Haksul, 68. [in Korean]

• 2021 KOSSDA Autumn  Program (4 weeks) [in Korean]

Completed instruction for the following course: Regression Advanced, Oral History

• 2020 BK21 Plus Summer School, Social Science Research Methods 

Completed instruction for the following course: R Basic and Text-mining

• 2018 Winter, Data Analysis Workshop (15 hours) [in Korean]

Completed instruction for the following course: R Basic

Updated: 22 May 2025