In Common: A Conversation with Author Yoosun Park

Join us at The Welcoming Center for the kickoff of our In Common series. Enjoy light food and drink, community, and a conversation with author and scholar Yoosun Park as she discusses themes from her forthcoming book Social Work, the Americanization Movement, and the Construction of Americans, 1874–1930. Her talk will explore the Americanization movement in the United States and what its history reveals about race, belonging, and immigration today.

Event Details:

• June 11th 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
• At The Welcoming Center (211 N 13th Street, 4th Floor, Philadelphia PA, 19107)
• Light refreshments served
• Pay as you wish

More about Yoosun Park, MSW, PhD

Associate Professor and Co-Director, PhD in Social Welfare Program

Yoosun Park, MSW, PhD is a theory-driven scholar whose research and pedagogy are predicated on the belief that social work’s commitment to social justice requires not only a diversity of social identities but of perspective on and approach to knowledge-building. To this end, she has built an interdisciplinary and non-traditional body of scholarship that utilizes critical theories and methodologies to significantly extend the borders of social work knowledge. Framed within the broad substantive area of critical discourse studies, she has pursued two distinct but overlapping lines of inquiry that interrogate and elucidate each other: 1) an interrogation of social work’s history with racialized populations (particularly immigrants and immigration) and the processes of racialization; and 2) the study of the ways in which that history manifests in social work research, education, and practice today. As required readings in a variety of courses across schools of social work in the United States and abroad, Dr. Park’s award-winning scholarship informs the education of the next generation of social work practitioners and researchers.