Sonia Ryang

Sonia Ryang is T.T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Asian Studies at Rice University. She is a social anthropologist of transnational Korea (North and South), particularly the Korean diaspora in Japan and the United States. She is the author, editor, or coeditor of numerous books, including Writing Selves in America: Ethnography of Autobiographics of Korean Women in Japan and the United States; Diaspora without Homeland: Being Korean in Japan; North Korea: Toward a Better Understanding; the forthcoming Do You Still Love the Great Leader? Revisiting North Koreans in Japan; and others. She also serves as editor-in-chief of Transnational Asia: An Online Interdisciplinary Journal.