Yonson Ahn
Korean Studies
Frankfurt University
Germany
Biography
Yonson Ahn is a professor and has been the director of Korean Studies at Frankfurt University since December 2014. She was previously a Korea Foundation guest professor at Goethe University of Frankfurt from May 2010 until September 2011. Prof. Ahn taught at the University of Leipzig in Germany and Ewha Women’s University, Ch’angwon National University and Tongguk University in Korea. She was a visiting scholar at Seoul National University and Waseda University in 2004, as well as at the University of Tokyo in 1996.
Research Interest
Prof. Ahn's research interests include transnational migration, such as transnational marriage migrants and Korean diasporas; gender-based violence in conflicts, especially the issues of “comfort women” during WWII; and historical controversies in East Asia and oral history. Her current research project is related to transnational migration and gender, focusing on negotiating gender and ethnic identities of Korean migrant workers in Germany and Asian marriage migrants in South Korea.
