About Hyemin

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at New York University.

I study the relationship between language, medicine, and the environment in South Korea, focusing on questions related to translation, scientific evidence, and branding traditional materia medica for the global market. I explore my questions through Korean ginseng (insam).

My research draws on scholarship in medical and linguistic anthropology, semiotics, STS, and Korean studies. It has been generously supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation of Anthropological Research, and the NYU Dean's Dissertation Fellowship.

My other research projects have touched upon the themes of language and medicine, including communications and semiotics of pain, illness/medical narratives, doctor-patient interactions, and medical discourse.

I can be reached at hyeminlee [at] nyu [dot] edu