Welcome Prof. Stephanie Choi to the Asian Studies Program!

Published January 10, 2023

The Asian Studies Program is excited to welcome postdoctoral scholar, Stephanie Choi, who is affiliated with the UB Asia Research Institute. This semester, Dr. Choi will teach a course for the Asian Studies Program, titled “East Asian Popular Music Cultures.”

Dr. Choi earned her PhD in 2020 in ethnomusicology from the University of California-Santa Barbara, where her dissertation focused on gender, labor, and the commodification of intimacy in K-pop. Most recently, she has been teaching courses at NYU on the soundscape of East Asian popular music cultures and Korean culture and society through K-pop.