Jacob Ki Nielsen

Current research

I am working on a Postdoctoral research project titled Adoptee Demography, which is a register-based population study on transnational adoptees who arrived to Denmark prior to 1991. The aim of this study is to clarify for the demographic elaboration of adult adoptees with a focus on migration and social mobility.

My PhD-project (2009-2013) concerns itself with the relation between nationalism, multiculturalism, globalization and Koreanness and is empirically anchored in contemporary Korean television dramas and cinema of the south. The thesis evolves around a series of qualitative readings with specific attention to the relation between majority and minority representation.

Knowledge of languages

Danish (5), English (4.5), German (4), Korean (3.5)

Primary fields of research

• Population studies and adoptee demography
  
  
• Adoption history, Migration and minority Studies

• Multiculturalism, nationalism, regionalism, globalization and media

• South Korean modern culture and society. South Korean cinema in the late modernity.

• The work of the South Korean helmer Kim Ki-duk.

CV

Academic record:

Associate Researcher, The Research Unit for General Practice, UCPH, 2015-

Research Fellow, Academy of Korean Studies, 2015

Postdoctoral Fellow, The Unit of Women and Gender Research in Medicine, UCPH, 2015

PhD, Cross Cultural and Regional Studies / Korean Studies, UCPH, 2014

M.A., East Asian Studies, UCPH, 2008

B.A., Korean Studies, UCPH, 2006