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David Oh

Associate Professor, Communications, Syracuse University

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David Oh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communications in the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He authored Second-Generation Korean American Adolescent Identity and Media: Diasporic Identifications (Lexington, 2015) and Whitewashing the Movies: White Subjectivity and Asian Erasure in U.S. Film Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2022). Most recently, he co-authored Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work (Rutgers University Press, 2023). He also edited Mediating the Korean Other: Representations and Discourses of Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-State (University of Michigan Press, 2022) and co-edited Korean Pop Culture Beyond Asia: Race and Reception (University of Washington Press). In addition, he has published 50 peer-reviewed essays in journals and edited collections, sits on eleven Editorial Boards in communication, cultural studies, fan studies, and media studies. In 2018-19, he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.