She has a Ph.D. from Stanford in Cultural Anthropology. She’s been a member of the Middlebury College faculty since 2007 and teaches courses on race, ethnicity, immigration, globalization, and sports. Her research has focused on the role of sports media in shaping nationalisms within and beyond borders. She has written on topics ranging from Korean transnational sports, Asian American sports, and Korean transnational popular culture. She is the editor, with Shelley Lee, of the Handbook of Korean American Studies published by Brill in 2018.