Alex Jong-Seok Lee (he/him/his) is an Annette and Hugh Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University's Chao Center for Asian Studies. He received his PhD in Anthropology and a Minor in Asian American Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained a BA in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
His research focuses on the relationship between economic crisis, gendered mobility, transnational labor migration, and media. He has taught university courses in Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Anthropology.
He was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Los Angeles, California. He has conducted ethnography in South Korea, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Italy. Prior to receiving his PhD, he was a research intern at the UCLA Labor Center, an organizer and researcher at Service Employees International Union, an English language instructor, a contributing writer at the Korea Times English language newspaper, a reporter at Inter Press Service global news agency, and a program officer/researcher at the non-governmental organization, Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives.
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His research focuses on the relationship between economic crisis, gendered mobility, transnational labor migration, and media. He has taught university courses in Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Anthropology.
He was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Los Angeles, California. He has conducted ethnography in South Korea, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Italy. Prior to receiving his PhD, he was a research intern at the UCLA Labor Center, an organizer and researcher at Service Employees International Union, an English language instructor, a contributing writer at the Korea Times English language newspaper, a reporter at Inter Press Service global news agency, and a program officer/researcher at the non-governmental organization, Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives.
[Previous Home Page Photo Credit: Author (Seoul, South Korea, 2019)]