Ph.D., Anthropology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

M.A., Social Sciences
University of Chicago

M.A., Secondary Education
National-Louis University

B.A., English
Kenyon College 
 

• American Anthropological Association
• Association for Asian Studies

Youngling, Liza, Jamie Arjona, Ofira Fuchs, Agnes Sohn, Natalye Tate, “Rereading the Archives: Uncovering Spaces of Feminist Engagement in IWAC (International Women’s Anthropology Conference),” American Anthropologist 114, 3 (September 2012): 521-523

Works in Progress

2026

Book Manuscript: Encounters in the Jeju Village: Houses, Landscapes, and Transformation on Jeju Island. In Preparation.

“Alone Together: Millennials, Middle Class Refusal, and the Rural South Korean House.” In Preparation.

“The Jeju Migration Narrative.” In Preparation.

2023

• Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Short-term Research Travel to Korea Grant
  

2019

• Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Korean Studies, Indiana
  University Bloomington
• Best Paper Award. 7th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars, University of Michigan.

2017

• Korea Foundation Graduate Studies Fellowship, Academic Year Fellowship
  Korea Foundation
  

2016

• Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant
  Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Jeju, South Korea

2015

• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant
  U.S. Department of Education, Jeju, South Korea
  
• SSRC Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop Fellowship
  Social Science Research Council
  

2014

• Korea Foundation Graduate Studies Fellowship, Academic Year Fellowship
  Korea Foundation
  
• Joseph P. Casagrande Award for Outstanding Research Proposal by a Graduate
  Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Summer Pre-Dissertation Research Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Jeju, South Korea

2013

• Korea Foundation Graduate Studies Fellowship, Academic Year Fellowship
  Korea Foundation
• Critical Language Scholarship in Korean, Summer Fellowship
  U.S. Department of State, Wonju, South Korea

2012

• Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Korean, Summer and Academic Year Fellowships, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Korean, Summer Fellowship , Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Seoul, South Korea
• Ranked Excellent in Teaching for Linguistic Anthropology
• Best Multimedia Presentation, 2012 Ethnography of the University Initiative Student Conference, with Jessica Conner, Sungmin Lee, and Maria Nava. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2008

• Critical Language Scholarship in Korean, Summer Fellowship, U.S. Department of State, Suwon, South Korea

Conference Presentations

• 2020 Jeju is not Seoul: Crafting Alternatives through the Jeju Migration Narrative. 13th Kyujanggak International Symposium on Korean Studies, Seoul, South Korea (virtual), October 15.
• 2019 Home Alone: Building Alternatives in the Jeju House/Home. 7th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars, Ann Arbor, May 16.
• 2018 Home Alone: Retreat and Resistance in the Jeju House/Home. 2018 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, November 15.
• 2017 Love and ‘The Good Life’: The Politics of Retreat on Jeju Island. 2017 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 29.
• 2017 Future at the Periphery: Young Adult Urban to Rural Migration in South Korea.
  Indiana University East Asian Studies Center Consortium National Dissertation Workshop, Bloomington, IN, June 23.
• 2016 Stories from the Periphery: Urban-to-Rural Youth Migration in South Korea. Invited Session, 2016 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, November 18.
• 2016 Stories from the Periphery: Urban-to-Rural Youth Migration in South Korea. 2016 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Urbana-Champaign, IL, October 15.
• 2014 Ethnic Enclave vs. Entrepreneurial Hub: Competing Images of a Korean International Student in Fragile Times. 2014 Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 18.
• 2013 Higher Education’s Adaptation to a Global Setting and Future. Association of International Education Administrators Annual Conference, New Orleans, February 20.

Campus Presentations

• 2019 Home Makings: Materializing Exodus in the Jeju House/Home. Indiana University Bloomington, Institute for Korean Studies, Colloquium Series, October 11.
• 2019 The Jeju Migration Story. Indiana University Bloomington, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Graduate Student Networking Event, April 26.
• 2018 The Melodrama of Millennials: Young Adult Urban to Rural Migration in South Korea, University of California Irvine, Center for Critical Korean Studies, Korea Ethnography Now: Building on the Legacy of Nancy Abelmann, February 15.
• 2017 South Koreans Go Back to the Land: Refuge and Belonging at the Periphery of the Nation. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Brown Bag Series, March 3.
• 2013 Jeju Island: Alternative Cosmopolitanism. Invited with Professor Eleana Kim and Professor Jin-Kyung Lee as Discussants. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Korean Family in the Comparative Perspective Workshop, October 11.
• 2013 The American University Meets the Pacific Century: Indifferent Globalizers and the New American University. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Seminar Series, January 30.
• 2012 Crossing the Invisible Line: An International Student’s Experience Engaging at the American University, Podcast and paper presented. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2012 Ethnography of the University Initiative Student Conference, December 4.

Other Conference/Workshop Activity 

• 2018 Chair and co-organizer for the panel, “Building Houses on Uneven Terrain,” at 2018 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, November 15.
• 2016 Invited discussant for the presentation, “Women and the City: Gendered Mobility
  and Rural Depopulation in post-1960 Korea” by Dr. Hannah Lim, at 2016
  International Conference on Women and their Culture, Seoul, South Korea,
  January 28.
• 2012 Co-organizer for The American University Meets the Pacific Century Conference, Urbana, IL, March 9-10.
• 2012 Discussant for the presentation “Loss and the Pleasure of the ‘Normal’:
  Constituting Family in Japan” by Dr. Kathryn Goldfarb, The Korean Family in the Comparative Perspective Workshop, Urbana, IL, September 28.
  

• 2023 Follow-up research for book project, Jeju Island, South Korea (2 weeks)
• 2017 Dissertation research, Follow-up, South Korea (3 weeks)
• 2015–2016 Dissertation research, Jeju Island, South Korea (14 months)
• 2014 Pre-dissertation research, Jeju Island, South Korea (1 month)
• 2013 Pre-dissertation research, Jeju Island, South Korea (2 weeks)
• 2011-2015 On-campus ethnographic research, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, United States
• 2010 Master’s thesis research, Chicago, United States (3 months)