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Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Global Health Program, University of California at San Diego<\/p>\n
Dredge Byung’chu Kang’s research focuses on beauty and love as they intersect with race, class, gender, sexuality, globalization, and structural violence in body modification and interracial relationships. His current work focuses on the intersections of queer and trans* studies, critical race theory, and inter-Asian regionalism. Dredge\u2019s dissertation, White Asians Wanted: Queer Racialization in Thailand examines the racialization of cosmopolitan Asianness as it intersects with transnational partnership patterns, beauty ideals, and economic development. Dredge\u2019s second project, tentatively titled Amazing Waves: Queering East Asian Popular Culture through Thailand, explores the impact of the Korean Wave on the performance of Thai gender, sexuality, and race as well as Thailand\u2019s subsequent influence on other Southeast Asian nations such as Vietnam and the Philippines.<\/p>\n
MPH in Global Health, Emory University (2016)
\nConcentration in Global Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases
\nPh.D., M.A. in Anthropology, Emory University (2015)
\nConcentration in Medical Anthropology
\nB.A. Anthropology, with honors (2002)<\/p>\n
Dredge Byung’chu Kang’s research focuses on beauty and love as they intersect with race, class, gender, sexuality, globalization, and structural violence in body modification and interracial relationships. His current work focuses on the intersections of queer and trans* studies, critical race theory, and inter-Asian regionalism. Dredge\u2019s dissertation, White Asians Wanted: Queer Racialization in Thailand examines the racialization of cosmopolitan Asianness as it intersects with transnational partnership patterns, beauty ideals, and economic development. Dredge\u2019s second project, tentatively titled Amazing Waves: Queering East Asian Popular Culture through Thailand, explores the impact of the Korean Wave on the performance of Thai gender, sexuality, and race as well as Thailand\u2019s subsequent influence on other Southeast Asian nations such as Vietnam and the Philippines.<\/p>\n
Love and Sex Work; Beauty and Body Modification, Hallyu (Korean Wave) and East Asian Popular Culture Studies, Queer\/Trans and Critical Race Studies, Applied Sexual Health, especially HIV; Critical Medical Anthropology; Social Epidemiology, Geographic Emphasis: Southeast Asia, especially Thailand; Inter-Asia Studies; Asian Diasporas<\/p>\n
2021 \u201cThe Duty to Transform: Properly Refining the Body and (Re)defining Oneself in Thailand.\u201d<\/strong> Theme issue, \u201cChasing Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery and Skin Lightening in East Asia,\u201d Asian Studies Review <\/em>45 (2): 272-289. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10357823.2021.1895722<\/p>\n 2019 Kang, Dredge, Sara Goico, Sheena Ghanbari, Kathleen C. Bennallack, Taciana Pontes, Dylan H. O\u2019Brien, and Jace Hargis.<\/strong> \u201cProviding an Oral Examination as an Authentic Assessment in a Large Section, Undergraduate Diversity Class.\u201d International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning<\/em> 13 (2\/10): 1-14. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.20429\/ijsotl.2019.130210<\/p>\n 2018 \u201cSurfing the Korean Wave: Wonder Gays and the Crisis of Thai Masculinity.\u201d Theme issue, \u201cSoutheast Asian Visual Cultures,\u201d<\/strong> Visual Anthropology<\/em> 31 (1-2): 45-65. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/08949468.2018.1428013<\/p>\n 2017 \u201cEastern Orientations: Thai Middle-Class Gay Desire for \u2018White Asians.\u2019\u201d Theme issue, \u201cQueer Asia as Critique,\u201d<\/strong> Culture, Theory and Critique<\/em> 58 (2): 182-208. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14735784.2017.1288580<\/p>\n 2014 \u201cIdols of Development: Transnational Transgender Performance in Thai K-Pop Cover Dance.\u201d Theme issue, \u201cTrans* Cultural Production,\u201d<\/strong> Transgender Studies Quarterly<\/em> 1 (4): 559-571. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/23289252-2815246<\/p>\n 2012 \u201cKathoey<\/em> \u2018In Trend\u2019: Emergent Genderscapes, National Anxieties and the Re-Signification of Male-Bodied Effeminacy in Thailand.\u201d<\/strong> Theme issue, \u201cQueer Asian Subjects,\u201d Asian Studies Review<\/em> 36 (4): 475-494. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10357823.2012.741043<\/p>\n 2011 \u201cQueer Media Loci in Bangkok: Paradise Lost and Found in Translation.\u201d<\/strong> GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies<\/em> 17 (1): 169-191. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/10642684-2010-028<\/p>\n Book Chapters (Peer Reviewed) dredgekang [at] ucsd [dot] edu<\/a> Mario S\u00e1nchez del Campo, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Last Revision: 3\/25\/2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Current Position Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Global Health Program, University of California at San Diego Biography Dredge Byung’chu Kang’s research focuses on beauty […] Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7739,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumpages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/bigtentmedant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/bigtentmedant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/bigtentmedant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/bigtentmedant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/bigtentmedant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/bigtentmedant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/bigtentmedant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/bigtentmedant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/bigtentmedant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/bigtentmedant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2020 Aldarondo, Cecilia; Roger Hallas; Pablo Alvarez; Jim Hubbard; Dredge Byung\u2019chu Kang-Nguy\u1ec5n; and Jih-Fei Cheng.<\/strong> \u201cDispatches from the Pasts\/Memories of AIDS: A Dialogue\u201d in AIDS and the Distribution of Crises<\/em>, edited by Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shihani, 183-216. Durham NC: Duke University Press. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/9781478009269-009<\/p>\nContact<\/h2>\n
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