Yuha Jung
PhD
A leading museum scholar, systems thinker, passionate educator, and effective collaborator in arts administration research and education!
About
My name is Yuha Jung.
I am an associate professor and the director of graduate studies of Arts Administration at the University of Kentucky (UK). I am a devoted educator and researcher, and my research focuses on systems theory and cultural diversity in arts and culture organizations. My work is interdisciplinary including museum studies, arts management, historic preservation, and the law. I have published various peer-reviewed articles, co-edited a book, Systems Thinking in Museums: Theory and Practice, and completed a monograph in 2022,
Transforming Museum Management: Evidence-Based Change through Open Systems Theory. I received the National Endowment for the Humanities Research and Development Grant for the project, “Whose History Are We Preserving?: Mapping the Gaps of the National Register of Historic Places from Racial and Ethnic Historical Perspectives (2023).” I recently coedited the Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management. I was named the University Research Professor at UK for the 2022-2023 academic year. I am also an associate editor for the journal, Museum Management and Curatorship.
About
My name is Yuha Jung.
I am an associate professor and the director of graduate studies of Arts Administration at the University of Kentucky (UK). I am a devoted educator and researcher, and my research focuses on systems theory and cultural diversity in arts and culture organizations. My work is interdisciplinary including museum studies, arts management, historic preservation, and the law. I have published various peer-reviewed articles, co-edited a book, Systems Thinking in Museums: Theory and Practice, and completed a monograph in 2022, Transforming Museum Management: Evidence-Based Change through Open Systems Theory. I received the National Endowment for the Humanities Research and Development Grant for the project, “Whose History Are We Preserving?: Mapping the Gaps of the National Register of Historic Places from Racial and Ethnic Historical Perspectives (2023).” I recently coedited the Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management. I was named the University Research Professor at UK for the 2022-2023 academic year. I am also an associate editor for the journal, Museum Management and Curatorship.
Research
I study the interrelationship between systems theory and cultural diversity in arts and culture organizations. More specifically, I write about a structural and systemic change theory that can affect organizations and their surroundings leading to paradigmatic shifts, rather than changing one part of an organization, which may not be sustainable. Based on this theory, I have co-edited a book entitled, Systems Thinking in Museums: Theory and Practice (2017). I also wrote a monograph on this topic, Transforming Museum Management: Evidence-Based Change through Open Systems Theory (2021). Some of my previous publications are found in the following peer-reviewed journals: Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Museum Management and Curatorship, International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, Studies in Art Education, and Qualitative Inquiry. In 2023, I received the National Endowment for the Humanities Research and Development Grant for the project, “Whose History Are We Preserving?: Mapping the Gaps of the National Register of Historic Places from Racial and Ethnic Historical Perspectives.” I recently coedited the Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management (2023). I have recently started working on legal research with my JD training (stay tuned for law reviews and more legal research projects coming soon!).
Forthcoming Publication
The Oxford Handbook of
Arts and Cultural Management
ALL BOOKS
The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management. Oxford University Press.
Jung, Y. (2021). Transforming Museum Management: Evidence-Based Change through Open Systems Theory. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge.
Jung, Y. & Love, A. R. (Eds.). (2017). Systems thinking in museums: Theory and practice. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Teaching
Services
I committed to four main areas of service: my department, my college, the university, and the field.
SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT
Serving on various internal committees including graduate admissions and promotion review
Chairing or serving on PhD students’ dissertation advisory committees
Chairing a number of faculty search committees
SERVICE TO COLLEGE
Serving on the faculty advisory committee
SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY
Serve as an internal advisory board for the United In True Racial Equity (UNITE) Research
Priority Area
SERVICE TO FIELD
Serving as a board member for the Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts (STP&A)
Serving as a committee member for the Intellectual Property Committee of the College
Arts Association.
Serving as an associate editor for Museum Management and Curatorship
Serving as reviewer for numerous journals and publishing companies
To see full list of services, see my CV.
