Writing

See ucla.academia.edu/JuHuiJudyHan
(but also see the case against Academia.edu)

If you don’t have access to any of the articles below through a library near you, send me an email and I’d be happy to send it to you.

Currently Working on

Two book manuscripts and an edited book. See the research page for details.

Selected Publications

 Han, JHJ. 2022. “LGBTQ+ Politics and the Queer Thresholds of Heresy.” In Religion, Protest, and Social Upheaval, edited by Matthew T. Eggemeier, Peter Joseph Fritz and Karen V. Guth. Fordham University Press.

 Han, JHJ. 2022. “Out of Place in Time: Queer Discontents and Sigisangjo.” Journal of Asian Studies 81 (1): 119-129. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911821001455

 Han, JHJ. 2021. “The Politics of Postponement and Sexual Minority Rights in South Korea.” In Rights Claiming in South Korea, edited by Celeste L. Arrington and Patricia Goedde. Cambridge University Press.

 Han, JHJ. 2020. “The Queer Thresholds of Heresy.” Journal of Korean Studies 25 (2): 407-428. (Download pre-proof from Academia.edu)

 Han, JHJ. 2020. “High-Altitude Protests and Necropolitical Digits.” In Digital Lives in Global City: Contesting Infrastructures,, edited by Deborah Cowen, Alexis Mitchell, Emily Paradis, and Brett Story. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. See article

  Han, JHJ. 2019. “Singing from the margins.” The Immanent Frame. January 24, 2019.

Ethnographies of U.S. Empire, Duke University Press, 2018.

  Han, JHJ. 2018. “Shifting Geographies of Proximity: Korean-led Evangelical Christian Missions and the U.S. Empire.” In Ethnographies of U.S. Empire, edited by Carole McGranahan and John Collins, 194-213. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Link

  Han, JHJ. 2017. “Becoming Visible, Becoming Political: Faith and Queer Activism in South Korea.” Scholar & Feminist Online 14(2).

  Han, JHJ. 2017. “The Politics of Homophobia in South Korea.” East Asia Forum Quarterly 8 (2): 6-7. Link

한주희. 2015. “퀴어 정치와 퀴어 지정학.” 문화/과학 83: 62-81. [Han, Ju Hui Judy. 2015. “Queer Politics and Queer Geopolitics.” Munhwa/Kwahak 83: 62-81. Link

  Chun, Jennifer Jihye and Han, JHJ. 2015. “Language Travels and Global Aspirations of Korean Youth.” positions: asia critique 23 (3): 565-593. Link

  Han, JHJ. 2015. “Our Past, Your Future: Evangelical Missionaries and the Script of Prosperity.” In Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South, edited by Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane, 178-94. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. Link

  Han, JHJ. 2015. “Urban Megachurches and Contentious Religious Politics in Seoul.” In Handbook of Religion and the Asian City: Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Peter Van der Veer, 133-51. Berkeley: University of California Press. Link

  Han, JHJ and Chun, Jennifer Jihye. 2014. “Introduction: gender and politics in contemporary Korea.” Journal of Korean Studies 19 (2): 245-255. Link

  Na, Tari Young-Jung. Translation by JHJ Han and Se-Woong Koo. 2014. “The South Korean Gender System: LGBTI in the Contexts of Family, Legal Identity, and the Military.” Journal of Korean Studies 19 (2): 357-377. Link

  Han, JHJ. 2013. “Beyond safe haven: a Critique of Christian custody of North Koreans in China.” Critical Asian Studies 45 (4): 533-560. PDF  PDF.

  Han, JHJ. 2011. “Vacant warehouses as placeholders of fortune.” In Korean: 물류창고, 재산증식의 자리맡기 (Korean translation by Kwon Insook). Temporary Storages: Joo Hwang, Seoul, Korea: mediabus. PDF  PDF in English/Korean, 2.2 MB

  Han, JHJ. 2011. ” ‘If you don’t work, you don’t eat’: Evangelizing development in Africa.” In New Millennium South Korea: Neoliberal Capital and Transnational Movements, edited by Jesook Song. London: Routledge. PDF  PDF, 1.4 MB (From Academia.edu)

  Han, JHJ. 2010. “Neither friends nor foes: Thoughts on ethnographic distance.” Geoforum 41 (1): 11-14. PDF  PDF, 128.4 KB

  Han, JHJ. 2010. “Reaching the unreached in the 10/40 Window: The missionary geoscience of race, difference and distance.” In Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions, edited by Jason Dittmer and Tristan Sturm, 183-207. Hampshire: Ashgate. PDF  PDF, 4.3 MB (From Academia.edu)

  Han, JHJ. 2008. “Missionary.” Aether: the Journal of Media Geography 3: 58-83. PDF  PDF

  Han, JHJ. 2005. “Missionary Destinations and Diasporic Destiny: Spatiality of Korean/American Evangelism and the Cell Church.” Institute for the Study of Social Change. ISSC Fellows Working Papers.   Online

  Han, JHJ. 2000. “Organizing Korean Americans against Homophobia.” Sojourner: The Women’s Forum 25, June issue. PDF  PDF, 198 KB

  Han, JHJ. 1998. “Incidents of Travel.” In Q&A: Queer in Asian America, edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, 398-404. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. PDF  PDF, 1.0 MB

  Han, JHJ. 1998. “crossing.” In writing away here: a korean/american anthology, edited by Laura Hyun Yi Kang. Oakland: Oakland Korean American Arts Festival.