Hayeon Lee

Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Modern Vietnamese Studies

 

Office: 909A IAB
Office Hours: W 1-2pm and by appointment
Email: hl3646@columbia.edu

PhD: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MSW: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MA: American University of Beirut
BS: Cornell University

 

Feminist ethnography, gender, intersectionality, transnational migration, mixed marriages, labor, sexuality, selfhood, narratives, life histories.

Hayeon Lee is an anthropologist of Vietnam and Korea, who is also trained as a social worker. She earned her PhD in 2022 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her current research, based on three years of field work in Vietnam, focuses on the migration process and narratives of Vietnamese marriage migrant women to South Korea. She is presently working on an article manuscript on ethnographic research methods and intersectionality.