Angie Chung
Professor, University at Albany
Angie Chung is Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, a 2021–2022 U.S.-Korea Fulbright Scholar, and former Visiting Professor at Yonsei and Korea University.
She is author of Saving Face: The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth and Legacies of Struggle: Conflict and Cooperation in Korean American Politics. She has assumed distinguished leadership positions, including Chair of the American Sociological Association Section (ASA) on Asia and Asian America, President of the Association for Korean Sociologists in America (AKSA), and Program Committee co-Chair for the annual Association for Asian American Studies conference (AAAS).
Prof. Chung has researched, written, and presented on interracial coalition-building, ethnic organizational politics, immigrant families, international education, and immigrant-led urban redevelopment politics.
In addition to co-leading the national Korean American survey, Chung is currently working on a book on immigrant redevelopment politics in Koreatown and Monterey Park and an undergraduate textbook on AI and Society.