Alex Jong-Seok Lee is an Annette and Hugh Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University's Chao Center for Asian Studies. Alex 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.
Alex's research focuses on the intersection between globalization, labor migration, gender, sexuality, and race. He has taught university courses in Anthropology, Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies.
Alex was born in Southeast Texas and raised in Southern California. He has worked abroad and has conducted ethnography in Italy, the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and South Korea. Prior to receiving his PhD, he was a research intern at the UCLA Labor Center (Los Angeles), an organizer and researcher at Service Employees International Union (Los Angeles), an English language instructor (Seoul), a contributing writer at the Korea Times English language newspaper (Seoul), a reporter at Inter Press Service global news agency (Seoul), and a program officer/researcher at the non-governmental organization, Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (Seoul).
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Alex's research focuses on the intersection between globalization, labor migration, gender, sexuality, and race. He has taught university courses in Anthropology, Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies.
Alex was born in Southeast Texas and raised in Southern California. He has worked abroad and has conducted ethnography in Italy, the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and South Korea. Prior to receiving his PhD, he was a research intern at the UCLA Labor Center (Los Angeles), an organizer and researcher at Service Employees International Union (Los Angeles), an English language instructor (Seoul), a contributing writer at the Korea Times English language newspaper (Seoul), a reporter at Inter Press Service global news agency (Seoul), and a program officer/researcher at the non-governmental organization, Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (Seoul).
[Previous Home Page Photo Credit: Author (Haeundae Beach, 해운대해수욕, Busan, South Korea, 2019).