(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2024 (expected)
Dissertation Title: Transnational Making and Remaking of Education: Private Supplementary Education in Korea and Korean America
Dissertation Committee: Mary C. Waters (Co-Chair), Mario L. Small (Co-Chair; Columbia University), Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College), and Paul Y. Chang
Research/Teaching Interests: International migration; Asia and Asian America; education; transnational processes; qualitative methods

Eun Se's research falls at the intersection of international migration, education, and transnational processes and centers on the experiences of Asians and Asian Americans. By examining the transnational transmission and transformation of educational norms, practices, and institutions between long-established Korean Americans, transnationally mobile Koreans, and non-migrant Koreans, her dissertation, Transnational Making and Remaking of Education: Private Supplementary Education in Korea and Korean America, shows how Asians of the same ethnic origin hold different values and norms, develop different strategies in navigating the same educational institutions, and shape one another’s experiences across sending and receiving countries of immigration. To answer how the educational norms, practices, and institutions of home and host countries of immigration are shaped and reshaped at the intersection of local contexts and global influences, she focuses on how Korean and Korean American parents and students use private supplementary education both in Korea and in the United States. Her dissertation draws on in-depth interviews she conducted in Seoul and Boston with Korean and Korean American students, parents, and teachers.