PhD, Anthropology, Stanford University

Young Su Park is a physician anthropologist trained in the humanistic tradition with an interdisciplinary background that combines Medical Anthropology, Global Health, Humanitarian Studies, Korean Studies, and African Studies. At Haverford, Dr. Park is ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Humanities, and will continue as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Health Studies from Fall 2022. His scholarship speaks to critical approaches to ethics, trauma and mental health, reproductive health, the historicity and temporality of global health, and genealogy of modernities in Africa. He undertook ethnographic fieldworks on historical memory and violence of East Asian modernities and South Korean global health projects in Ethiopia.  His research seeks to explain how global health projects are shaped by ideas and experiences related to modernization, national development, and historical memories, contributing to critical understanding of global health from the lens of time.  His past works involves researches on healthcare system for undocumented migrants, cultural adjustment of North Korean refugee doctors, illness experiences of Korean Chinese migrant workers in South Korea, and socially vulnerable groups during the Covid-19 pandemic. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin and University College London.

Courses

HLTH 309 Trauma, Historical Memory, and Embodiment

HLTH 226 Radical Medicine

HLTH 315 Cancer Narratives

HLTH 334 Race and Political Economy of Infectious Diseases

Publication

Park, Y.S. (2021), Re‐membering Dismemberment: Haunting Images of Amputation at Aanolee and Oromo Political Subjectivities in Ethiopia. Ethos 48(4): 477-497. https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12292