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Biography
Dr. Park is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Dr. Park draws upon critical theories of racialization, Asian American Studies, and community engaged research to examine how Asian American families negotiate with race in and through educational institutions. She recently conducted an ethnographic investigation of community-based educational spaces in the Chicago-area Asian American community, which highlighted the role of community spaces in youths’ educational experiences and understandings of racializing discourses. In addition to publishing and presenting her work in multiple academic venues, Dr. Park draws upon her research in her work with Asian American and other youth of color in community-based organizations. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a concentration in Social Sciences and a Minor in Qualitative Methods. She also holds an M.A. from UW-Madison and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Prior to joining the faculty, Dr. Park was an IDEAL Provostial Fellow, part of the inaugural cohort of early-career scholars of race and ethnicity at Stanford University. Prior to that, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Prior to joining the faculty, Dr. Park was an IDEAL Provostial Fellow, part of the inaugural cohort of early-career scholars of race and ethnicity at Stanford University. Prior to that, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Other titles
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education
Program affiliations
SHIPS (PhD): Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)
SHIPS (PhD)
SHIPS (PhD): Anthropology of Education
SHIPS (PhD): Social Sciences in Education
SHIPS (PhD): Sociology of Education
Research interests
Diversity and Identity | Equity in Education | Immigrants and Immigration | Race and Ethnicity | Sociology
Recent publications
Park, E. (2023). "Asians Are the Least Troublemaker": Navigating Racial In-betweenness in Korean American Community-based Spaces. SOCIOLOGY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY.
Park, E., Hernandez, G. O., & Lee, S. J. (2022). Asian Americans and the battle against affirmative action: opposition to race-based admissions as neoliberal racial subjectivity performance. RACE ETHNICITY AND EDUCATION.
Park, E. (2020). Asian Americans in the Suburbs: Race, Class, and Korean Immigrant Parental Engagement. EQUITY & EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION, 53(1-2), 30–49.