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Sujin Eom is an Assistant Professor of Asian Studies in the Department of Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages at Dartmouth College. A scholar of architecture and urbanism whose research is anchored in a historical inquiry into race, migration, and the built environment, Eom is currently completing her first book manuscript that situates "Chinatown" as an imaginative and material space within the global history of empire, labor migration, and violence. Eom holds a PhD in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies.
Eom's research interests include colonial architecture and urbanism, migration and diaspora, labor and slavery, race and racism, Asian/American art and architecture, and postcolonial urban theory. Eom is also working her second book project, Asian American Midcentury Modern, a monograph that foregrounds race and racism in the discourse of modernism by situating American architects of Asian descent at the center of midcentury modern architecture in the United States.
Eom is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Society of Architectural Historians IDEAS Research Fellowship, the Academy of Korean Studies Fellowship, the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Korean Studies Travel Grant, the International Planning History Society Best Postgraduate Paper Award, the Japan Foundation Fellowship, the University of California Pacific Rim Research Fellowship, and the Social Science Research Council Grant. She has served as the Haas Junior Scholars Program Fellow and the Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies (BELS) Graduate Fellow. Eom is one of the contributors to Rediscovering Asian American Pacific Islander Architects & Designers, a collaboration between the Society of Architectural Historians and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Eom's research interests include colonial architecture and urbanism, migration and diaspora, labor and slavery, race and racism, Asian/American art and architecture, and postcolonial urban theory. Eom is also working her second book project, Asian American Midcentury Modern, a monograph that foregrounds race and racism in the discourse of modernism by situating American architects of Asian descent at the center of midcentury modern architecture in the United States.
Eom is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Society of Architectural Historians IDEAS Research Fellowship, the Academy of Korean Studies Fellowship, the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Korean Studies Travel Grant, the International Planning History Society Best Postgraduate Paper Award, the Japan Foundation Fellowship, the University of California Pacific Rim Research Fellowship, and the Social Science Research Council Grant. She has served as the Haas Junior Scholars Program Fellow and the Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies (BELS) Graduate Fellow. Eom is one of the contributors to Rediscovering Asian American Pacific Islander Architects & Designers, a collaboration between the Society of Architectural Historians and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
