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Institute for Corean-American Studies

Hesung Chun Koh

Dr. Hesung Chun Koh is Co-Founder, Chair and President Emerita of East Rock Institute (ERI), the nation�s first institution dedicated to Korean and Korean Diaspora culture.

She is also Director Emerita of Research at the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University.

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As a researcher, teacher, writer, social activist and artist, Hesung dedicated the past sixty years to ERI and mentored countless students and parents from both Korean and non-Korean universities even after her retirement from Yale .

Before coming to the United States at the age of 19, Hesung majored in Korean and English Literature at Ewha Women�s University.

In the States, she double majored in Economics and Sociology at Dickinson College (B.A.). Hesung continued her study of Sociology, Anthropology and also received interdisciplinary training in planning of change at Boston University, and worked as a fellow and faculty member at the Univ