She received her B.A. at Yale University and Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California Los Angeles. Dr. Chung has served as visiting professor at Yonsei and Korea University and is currently the 2016 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her areas of expertise include immigration and the second generation, community and urban sociology, gender and family, race and ethnicity, Asian American studies, and qualitative methods. Dr. Chung is author of Legacies of Struggle: Conflict and Cooperation in Korean American Politics (Stanford University Press, 2007). Her forthcoming book, Saving Face: The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth, is currently in press with Rutgers University Press. She is currently working on an NSF-funded research project on the politics of economic growth and urban redevelopment in Koreatown and Monterey Park, Los Angeles.