Akwi SEO

Brief personal history

2024-Present Professor, Department of International Liberal Arts, Fukuoka Women's University
2014-2023 Associate Professor, Department of International Liberal Arts, Fukuoka Women's University
2013 Visiting Scholar, Ewha Women's University
2010-2013 Lecturer, Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University

Degrees

Ph. D. in Sociology and Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University
MA in Sociology, University of Toronto

Research themes

Analysis of gender politics on migrant women
Social movements by Korean women in Japan
Civil activism and policy on migrant women in Korea

Select publication list

1.Seo, Akwi, 2025, "Ethnicity: Liberation Movements of Korean Women in Japan and the Discovery of Intersectional Feminism," Andrea Germer and Ulrike Woehr, eds., Handbook of Feminisms in Japan, MHM Japan Documents.

2.Seo, Akwi, 2017, " "Toward Postcolonial Feminist Subjectivity: Korean Women’s Redress Movement for 'Comfort Women'," Bullock, Julia C., Kano, Ayako, Welker, James, eds., Rethinking Japanese Feminisms, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

3.Seo, Akwi, 2017, Creating Subaltern Counterpublics: Korean Women in Japan and their Struggle for Night School, Kyoto University Press & Trans Pacific Press.

4.Seo, Akwi, 2013, "Soin aux personnes ?gées et construction de l'identité ethnique", Hommes et Migrations, n.1302, pp. 117-24.

5.Seo, Akwi, 2008, "Formation of Ethnic Identity through Elder Care: An Analysis of Korean Women's Solidarity in a Day Home in Osaka", Journal of Asian Women's Studies, vol. 17, pp. 17-30.

Research field

Sociology of gender and migration
Postcolonial feminism

Membership of Academic Societies

Japan Sociological Society
Kantoh Sociological Society
International Society for Gender Studies
National Women's Studies Association (USA)

Funds

2019-2023 JSPS Kakenhi Grant C, Social History of Modern Coal Miners in Kyushu and Hokkaido: Intersectional Structure of Ethnicity, Gender and Class.
2015-2018 JSPS Kakenhi Grant C, Political Participation of Marriage Migrant Women in Korea.
2015-2017 JSPS Kakenhi Grant C, Political Participation of Marriage Migrant Women in Korea.
2015 JSPS Kakenhi Publication of Scientific Research Results number 15HP6009.
2012-2014 JSPS Kakenhi Grant C, Cultural Citizenship of Marriage Migrant Women in Multicultural Korea.
2011 JSPS Kakenhi Publication of Scientific Research Results number 235209.

Awards

2012 Yamakawa Kikue Award for Women's Studies
2012 Word and Gender Award

Lecture subjects

First year Seminar
Introduction to Sociology
Research Methods
Multiculturalism and Society
Sociology of Migration
Internship Program (Korea)
Intercultural Communications
International Relations Seminar I, II
Global Issues in Contemporary World
Transnational Sociology Seminar I, II

Related field

• Social System Studies
• Experiential Learning
• Research of Women's Lifelong Education
• International Exchange

　

Keywords

Sociology, Migration, Gender, Multiculturalism, Postcolonial Feminism, Intersectionality