Scholars-in-Residence

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Hyungji Park (Yonsei University)

Hyungji Park is Professor of English literature in the Department of English Language and Literature at Yonsei University. She is the co-author of Imperialism and Masculinity: Gender Formation in Nineteenth Century Britain, and has published recently in Wasafiri, Victorian Studies, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, and numerous other journals. She has held multiple senior administrative positions at Yonsei University, including serving as a founding member of Underwood International College (UIC) from 2004 and as UIC’s Dean from 2012 to 2016, as well as the founding Director of Design Factory Korea, a member of the Design Factory Global Network. Outside of Yonsei, she has served as Interim Executive Director for UNICEF Korea in 2023, and is currently serving as the Chair of the Board of Governors at Seoul Foreign School. Her primary fields of research and teaching include Victorian literature, Korean popular culture, Asian American literature, and contemporary fiction, with a focus on post-colonial and gender issues. 

During her year at CGS, Professor Park is focusing her research on nineteenth-century contact between Britain and Korea as represented primarily through visual culture. Her project, tentatively entitled “Visualizing Korea,” considers post-colonial and transimperial relationships and modes of thinking that characterize Britain’s relationship with East Asia within the context of photography and other visual technologies. The larger purpose of such research is to practice a Global Victorian Studies that expands our understanding of nineteenth-century studies, and draw upon Professor Park’s own positionality as a scholar practicing outside of the Anglophone academy.

2025-2026 AY

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Past Scholars-in-Residence

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Hany Zayed, PhD

Dr. Zayed is a visiting scholar at the Center for Global Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Having recently completed his doctoral studies, his dissertation titled "The 'Digital Transformation' of Egyptian Secondary Education: From Technological Reason to Technological Realism" offers a critical sociology of education and technology. It moves away from idealized visions and utopian promises of positive technological transformations, examining instead the empirical realities, unintended consequences, and politics of techno-educational reforms within their political-economic and socio-historical contexts.

Drawing on fifteen months of digital ethnographic fieldwork, including field interviews, event observations, content analysis, and digital social research, his work reveals how digital technologies facilitate the platformization of education. This process integrates transnational private actors into public education, dissipates the pedagogical functions of schools, pushes for an individualized form of learning, and generates copious amounts of data that are utilized in state dataveillance and surveillance capitalism.

Dr. Zayed has a growing track record of scholarly publications and international conferences. His works include "The Political Economy of Revolution: Karl Polanyi in Tahrir Square" in the Journal of Theory, Culture and Society, and "Researching Digital Sociality: Using WhatsApp to Study Educational Change" in the Journal of Digital Social Research.

During his time at the Center for Global Studies, Dr. Zayed will be working on research and publications on digital education with faculty mentors. He will also provide guest lectures and research presentations.

2023-2024 AY

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Melissa Whatley, PhD

Dr. Melissa Whatley is assistant professor of international and global education at SIT Graduate Institute. Her research applies quantitative and mixed-methods approaches to improve our understanding of policies and practices that impact access and equity in U.S. international education, particularly in the community college context.

Dr. Whatley will be observing the International Studies Research Lab as part of her broader research into and collaboration with community college international educators. 

2022 Summer/Fall

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Yasuyo Inoue, PhD

Yasuyo Inoue is a professor of library science at Dokkyo University, Saitama, Japan.  Her current research focuses on how the relationship between the US (especially American Library Association) and Japan impacted the education and training of librarians in post-war Japan, especially the professionalization of children’s and Young Adult librarians.  There were several well-known donation programs during the period of occupation, such as the CARE project, the Silver-Bell children’s library (which later became the Hiroshima prefecture library), and children’s services at the American Library (CIE library), but the process of education and training of library staff to become professional children’s librarians has been little studied. One example is Keio Library School, which hosted ALA professionals to teach children’s services and YA services for several years. Carnegie foundation sent a list of children’s books as a model collection attached to this teaching program, but no content of the list is known. As a CGS/UIUC visiting scholar, Prof. Inoue will be conducting research at the ALA archive at UIUC, the Carnegie foundation archive at NYC, and the National Archive at Maryland.

2019-2020 AY

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Li She, PhD

Dr. She is an Associate Professor of Arabic at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China. Dr. She is interested in the economic development of Saudi Arabia and the influence of China on that development.

China’s economic and trade cooperation with Arab countries has evolved over the past several decades and has influenced its economic development and globalization processes. More than 30 years ago, China conducted a low volume of trade with a limited number of Arab countries, and focused mainly on trading traditional commodities. Today, China trades with all Arab countries, and has become one of their most important trading partners.

Dr. She conducted a lecture discussed China’s shifting role from being the recipient of development expertise to being the provider of advanced equipment, technology and management experience in various Arab nations such as Kuwait, Iraq and Egypt.

2016-2017 AY