Dong-A University Professor Kim Juhwan Selected for the 'Social Science Research Support Project'

Professor Kim Juhwan of the College of Liberal Arts at Dong-A University has been selected for the ‘2023 Social Science Research Support Project (SSK)’ funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea.

With this selection, Professor Kim will receive research funding of 480 million KRW over three years until August 2026 to conduct a study titled “Complex Crises and Publicness of Care in the New Normal Era: Responding to Blind Spots in the Social Safety Net.”

Previously, Professor Kim was also selected last year for the National Research Foundation’s ‘General Humanities and Social Sciences Joint Research Support Project,’ receiving approximately 400 million KRW until June 2025 to research “Ecological Citizenship for Life Coexistence in the Era of Climate Crisis.”

Achieving consecutive selections for large-scale projects in the humanities and social sciences, he plans to establish the ‘Institute for Convergent Knowledge and Society Research’ on campus, building a research platform for more systematic and active research based on secured research funds and personnel.

Professor Kim Juhwan, Dong-A University.

Professor Kim Juhwan stated, “In the upcoming complex crisis situations, it is expected that blind spots in the social safety net will emerge that cannot be addressed by existing publicness, so a new imagination of social publicness beyond the state and market is necessary.”

He added, “We will sensitively respond to the social suffering experienced by groups placed in the blind spots of the social safety net and explore new possibilities for social integration.”

Professor Kim, who holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Georgia State University in the United States, specializes in social theory, social thought, and social policy.

He joined the College of Liberal Arts at Dong-A University in 2020 and teaches liberal arts courses such as “What is Justice?” and “Reading the World through Classics: Modern.” He also serves as the research chair of the Critical Sociology Association and is actively involved in the Korean Theoretical Sociology Association and the Korean Society for Social Theory.