Dr. Jesook Song is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology with a minor degree in Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her interests include (neo)liberalization, policing family, homelessness, young adult’s unemployment, residential autonomy of unmarried women, psychological health support system, speculations, care labor, social movement, and migrations. She has published two monographs, three (co)edited volumes, and two journal special issues as co-guest editors. They include South Koreans in the Debt Crisis (Duke University Press 2009), Living on Your Own (SUNY Press 2014), New Millennium South Korea (ed. Routledge 2011), On the Margins of Urban South Korea (co-ed with Laam Hae, University of Toronto Press, 2019), Mediating Gender in the Post-Authoritarian South Korea (co-ed with Michelle Cho, University of Michigan Press, in press), Special issue: Korea through Ethnography (co-ed with Nancy Abelmann, Journal of Korean Studies, 2014), Special issue: Breaking Down Boundaries, Forging New Path (co-ed with Eleana Kim, Journal of Asian Studies, 2018). She has also published in various journals including positions, Anthropological Quarterly, Critique of Anthropology, Feminist Review, Gender Place and Culture, Antipode, Urban Geography, The Review of Korean Studies, and Journal of Youth Studies. She received a SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2008-2011), a SSHRC Insight Research Grant (2016-2023), Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) research grants (2012-2013, 2018-2020). She was a recipient of the Academy of Korean Studies Distinguished Paper Award (2010), Sylvia Forman Essay Prize for feminist anthropology (2002), Demitri Shimkin Aware for the best dissertation in anthropology (2002).