Grace M. Cho is Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island. She received a PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center and an MEd from Harvard School of Education. Her work crosses disciplinary boundaries and seeks to engage popular audiences. From 2005 to 2007 she was a contributing performance artist for Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the Forgotten War, a collaborative art project based on the oral histories of Korean War survivors and their children. Her participation in Still Present Pasts influenced the form and content of her first book, Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy and the Forgotten War (University of Minnesota, 2008) which combined fiction, performance, autoethnography and sociological research. It won a 2010 book award from the American Sociological Association for its innovative methodology. Her current project is a work of creative non-fiction, exploring notions of food, hunger and survival in the context of U.S. imperialism. Prior to her life in academia, Grace was a Head Start director in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn.

Programming

Conversation
Wed, May 25, 2022,
07:30 PM –
09:00 PM
Tastes Like War: Grace M. Cho in Conversation with Patricia Clough

Performance and Conversation
Thu, Oct 25, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Theater for Social Change: (In)Visible Freedom

Reading and Conversation
Mon, Apr 30, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Autoethnographies of CUNY: The Power of Storytelling

Opportunity
Wed, Jan 10, 2018 –
Mon, Jan 22, 2018,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Fellowship Opportunity: Autoethnographies of CUNY

Opportunity
Tue, Aug 15, 2017 –
Tue, Aug 15, 2017