简介

Hyung Il Pai received her Ph.D. from Harvard University majoring in Anthropology and East Asian Archaeology. She is a professor at the East Asian Department of Language and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she has taught courses on Korean archaeology, history, anthropology, popular culture, heritage management, East Asian traditions, and tourism in East Asia. She is the author of “Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity, ( University of Washington Press 2013) and “Constructing Korean Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography and Racial Myth,” ( Harvard University Asia Center 2000). She is also the co-editor of “Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity, ” (University of California, Berkeley East Asia Center Monograph Series 1998). She has also published in numerous international journals and contributed book chapters on a diverse range of topics from Korean state formation, culture contact and change, archaeological heritage management, museum studies, history of anthropological photography, postcards, and cultural tourism in Korea and Japan. As the recipient of numerous grants such as the Social Science Research Council, the Asia Foundation, the Korea Foundation, the Japan Foundation, and the Fulbright Fellowship, she has conducted field and archival work as a visiting scholar at major universities and national research institutions in Korea and Japan. They include the University of California, Berkeley Center for Korean Studies as a Korean Foundation Post-doctoral fellow, visiting professors at the International Center for Japanese Studies (Kyoto), Kyoto University Department of Archaeology, Tokyo University Oriental Institute, Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties (Ueno, Japan) and Seoul National University.