Hyunku Kwon
Sociology
Hyunku Kwon is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Chicago. He studies political economy, race, and the environment in the Postbellum US South, with a focus on agricultural land use arrangements, labor contracts and cotton. His dissertation project examines the role that Black federal troops played in shaping land use (e.g., plantations, sharecropping, etc.) and crop monoculture in the Postbellum US South. His research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review and Sociological Science. Before joining the University of Chicago, he received a BA in Public Administration and Political Science from Yonsei University.