https://www.noelumlo.com/home daily 1.0 2026-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0741dc9bbb08349edd5fd2/b0d7a445-51b1-4b70-9898-91a1f3b836a0/headshotnoelumlo2.jpg About - I am a sociocultural anthropologist, writer, and Postdoctoral Scholar at the GW Institute for Korean Studies. I am also a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Broadly, my research explores how national imaginaries shape the ways people are racialized, valued, and governed in conflict-affected contexts. My current book project is an ethnography that examines how North Korean diasporic youth in South Korean navigate the politics and semiotics of Korean unification. It is based on my dissertation, which won the 2026 CAE Frederick Erickson Outstanding Dissertation Award. I have written about schooling and neoliberalism in South Korea, and gendered migration between North Korea and China both in policy-facing and fictional form. More of my recent published work can be found here. My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, and the American Anthropological Association, among others. https://www.noelumlo.com/teaching daily 0.75 2020-11-06