Carol Park
Researcher, University of California Riverside
Carol K. Park received a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC Riverside in June 2025. She also holds a Master of Arts (2022) in Ethnic Studies and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (2011) from UC Riverside.
She is the author of Memoir of a Cashier: Korean Americans, Racism, and Riots (2017) and the co-author of Korean Americans: A Concise History (2019). She is also Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at California Indian Nations College, a Board of Directors member for the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California, and board member of the Korean American Studies Conference Committee. She is also a researcher at the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies at UC Riverside.
Her other works include two documentaries: The 1992 LA Riots: Reflections on our Future (2011) and Footsteps of Korean Americans (2018). In 2023, she was also part of a team of scholars who received an $850,000 Humanities in Place Mellon Foundation award and helped to curate the “Pachappa Camp Traveling Exhibit.”
Park was also an award-winning journalist, and previously wrote for publications including The Press Enterprise, KoreAM Journal, Inland Empire Magazine, The Business Press, and various other news outlets.