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Jae Chung
Currently I am a post-doctoral fellow at Korea Institute at Harvard University. I am interested in anthropology of emergent financial technologies and how cultural indices, like the specific forms of temporality, are encoded within them. More specifically, my work examines venture capital industry in South Korea within its political economic history of state intervention. I analyze the arc of development in the Korean venture capital history as an outcome of the interaction among the state, the market, and historical notion of time.
About Rice Anthropology
Rice anthropology remains true to its legacy, which is its innovative energy. While respecting the historical legacy of anthropology, our department is not afraid to examine emergent, and perhaps ephemeral, phenomena. It is intellectually curious about the world. To Rice, I feel an enormous debt, both personal and intellectual. Fostering junior scholars is a difficult task: one needs to feel both rooted in training and free to disagree. Rice gave me both. I know that I would not as an interesting scholar, therefore more marketable scholar, without both of these qualities so apparent in my work.
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