Soo Ah Kwon

Soo Ah Kwon is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her doctorate at the University of California Berkeley and was a postdoctoral fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the author of Uncivil Youth: Race, Activism, and Affirmative Governmentality (Duke University Press, 2013) and co-editor of South Korea’s Educational Exodus: The Life and Times of “Early Study Abroad” (University of Washington Press, 2015). Her publications appear in the Journal of Asian American Studies, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and positions. She is currently working a book project titled Youth Participation and Global Governance.