Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 2005. University of Wisconsin, Madison (Sociology).
Hyunjoon Park, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, received his Ph.D. (2005) in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include social stratification, education, and social inequality in cross-national comparative perspective, focusing on Asian countries. Recently, he has extended his interest to examine cross-national comparisons of educational differences between immigrant and native children. He is also interested in changing socioeconomic status of Koreans in the United States.