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Jesook Song is a Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto. She serves as Department Chair and Graduate Chair (Tri-Campus), focusing on sociocultural anthropology, contemporary urban transformation, and welfare issues including homelessness, youth unemployment, and single women's housing in East Asia, particularly South Korea.
- PhD in Cultural Anthropology (2003), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- B.A. in Education Science, Yonsei University
Her research examines neoliberal capitalism's impact on welfare systems, labor practices, and gendered experiences in urban South Korea. Key themes include:
- Financial techniques in everyday life
- Post-development welfare states
- Gendered care work in public policy
- Homelessness and urban marginality
- Single women's spatial autonomy
Recent publications analyze pandemic-era welfare policies, financial subjectivity, and urban marginality. Her books include Living on Your Own (2014) and On the Margins of Urban South Korea (2019).
- American Anthropological Association Sylvia H. Forman Prize (2002)
- Academy of Korean Studies Distinguished Paper Award (2010)
She has advised graduate students Sophia Jaworski, Celeste Pang, and Kristina Alda, while securing multiple grants from SSHRC, Korea Foundation, and Academy of Korean Studies for research on financial techniques in everyday life and welfare systems.
