Dr. Cho joined the faculty of the Sociology-Anthropology Department in 2004 after completing her Ph.D. in Sociology and Women's Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Tastes Like War, which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction, the winner of the 2022 Asian Pacific American Literature Award for Adult Nonfiction, and a Time and NPR best book of 2021. Dr. Cho’s writings have appeared in The Nation, Catapult, The New Inquiry, Granta, Artforum, Contexts, Gastronomica, WSQ, Feminist Studies, Women and Performance, Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, Qualitative Inquiry and Poem Memoir Story. She has been featured in Vogue Korea and People Magazine and on NPR’s Fresh Air, KCRW’s Good Food, Milk Street Radio, and BBC World Outlook. Her first book, Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy and the Forgotten War, was the recipient of a 2010 book award from the American Sociological Association. She is co-editor of The Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY Students on Race and Social Justice (DIO Press, 2022).
Degrees
BA, Brown University
MEd, Harvard University
PhD, CUNY Graduate Center
Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY Students on Race and Social Justice, DIO Press, co-edited with Rose Kim and Robin McGinty, September 2022.
Tastes Like War: A Memoir, Feminist Press, May 2021. Winner of the 2022 Asian Pacific American Literature Award for Adult Nonfiction, Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War, University of Minnesota Press, November 2008. Winner of the 2010 American Sociological Association Asia and Asian America Section Outstanding Book Award.
