Jamyung Choi
Ph.D. Candidate
jamyung@sas.upenn.edu
Education
B.A. in Asian History, Asian History Department (동양사학과), Seoul National University, 2003
M.A. in Japanese History, Asian History Department, Seoul National University, 2007
“Beneath Conversion: The Kamisato Youth Association and Social Transformation in Wartime Japan”
A Researcher at the University of Tokyo, August 2010 – July 2011
Ph.D Candidate, History Department, University of Pennsylvania, 2007 to present
Research Interests
My dissertation “Budding Students Middle-Class: Tokyo Imperial University and the Rise of a Middle-class Society in Wartime Japan” addresses the social role of Tokyo Imperial University in the emergence of an education-oriented middle-class society from 1931 to 1945. Conceptualizing a collegiate society as a social community that stabilized student life, economic and physical, and recruited them, had them employed as white-collar workers, I trace how the function of Tokyo Imperial University to produce the middle class became strengthened and spread to other universities during the war.
Advising Committee
Publications
- “Trans-class Social Movements and the Rise of the Student Welfare System at Tokyo Imperial University in the Interwar Period” (in Japanese), Jisedai Ajia Forum, 2011.
- “After Expressionism?: Cyring Nut and the Transmogrification of Post-1990s Punk Art”, Munhak, Pan, Summer, 2006. (in Korean)
- “The Youth Movement and Its Critics: The Structure of the Left-Right Confrontation in Shimoina Region, Nagano Prefecture, and Japanese Fascism, 1921-1932”, S.N.U. Papers on Asian History, 2005. (in Korean)
- “The Emperor Organ Theory Incident (1935) and The Social Unification of the Wartime Emperor-System Ideology”, S.N.U. Papers on Asian History, 2004 (in Korean)
- “The Local Improvement Movement and the Making of a Triangular Relationship Between The Military, Political Parties, and Rural Villages after the Russo-Japanese War”, in S.N.U. Papers on Asian History, 2003 (in Korean)
- “Jaurim and the Transformation of 1990s Korean Popular Music”, Munhak Dongne, Fall 2003 (in Korean)
- “A Precocious Impressionist Chopin: Impressionism in Art Sociology and Romanticism in Music History”, Nangman Eumak, March, 2002. (in Korean)
Conference Papers
I have presented papers at the Asian Studies Conference in Japan (ASCJ), in June 2011, the Spring Workshop of Asian Studies (in Korea) in May 2011, The Next Generation Asia Forum in February 2011. I will present my paper on the Red Gate Student Consumption Cooperative in the upcoming annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Toronto, March 2012.
Outside Fellowships
The Japan Foundation, 2010-2011
