#  Harvard Anthropology PhD Candidate Gangsim Eom Awarded 2025 Graduate Student Paper Prize 

 





September 02, 2025

 

 

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is thrilled to share that current PhD student [Gangsim Eom](https://eom.scholars.harvard.edu) was awarded first place in the 2025 Graduate Student Paper Prize/Early Career Paper Prize from the Association for Asian Studies' Indonesia and Timor-Leste Studies Committee.

Gangsim Eom is a PhD candidate in Anthropology. Her research focuses on intergenerational changes in Korean migration to Indonesia since the Asia-Pacific War. Combining ethnographic and historical methods, she foregrounds the concept of “the foreign” to trace mobilities, mediatized representations, and semiotic entanglements across Asia. Her paper, “Afterlives of the Dead: Cemeteries as Windows into Trans-Oceanic Migration to Indonesia,” explored how the shared colonial past of Korea and Indonesia under Japanese rule continues to inform their postcolonial present.

Her research has been supported by Harvard University, including the Asia Center, Korea Institute, Reischauer Institute, Weatherhead Center, Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, Pforzheimer Fellowship, and the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative Award, and also by Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Silas Palmer Fellowship, the Korea Foundation, and the National Science Foundation’s Cultural Anthropology Methods Program Fellowship.



 

 

 



 

 

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