Minju Choi, Ph.D.

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Research Fellow of the Research Professorship
Global Sociology

Short Bio

Minju Choi is a postdoctoral research fellow in Global Sociology at the WZB. Her research focuses on how macro-cultural forces shape societies, including the changing legitimacy of education as an institution.

Her dissertation research focused on three cultural logics upholding mass education, mainly human rights, human capital, and (non-)citizenship. With a conceptual interest in the tensions arising from these multiple visions for schooling, Minju has examined discursive changes to education reforms, social science textbooks, and national constitutions.

Her work has been published in Comparative Education Review, International Sociology, Sociology of Education, among others. She received her PhD in International and Comparative Education / Sociology of Education from Stanford University.

Prior to her doctoral studies, Minju worked in the Education Global Practice at the World Bank, as well as other international organizations like UNESCO and UNICEF.

Selected Publications

2024
Choi, Minju. 2024. “Human Rights and Human Capital Discourse in National Education Reforms, 1960-2018.” Comparative Education Review 68 (1): 15–40. 
 
Choi, Minju, and Julia C. Lerch. 2024. “Portrayal of Immigrants and Refugees in Textbooks Worldwide, 1963-2011.” International Sociology 39 (4): 399–421.
 
Song, Jieun, Minju Choi, and Francisco O. Ramirez. 2024. “Educational Contestations in a Changing World Society.” In Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2023, 48:39–56. International Perspectives on Education and Society. Emerald Publishing Limited.
2023
Bromley, Patricia, Jared Furuta, Rie Kijima, Lisa Overbey, Minju Choi, and Heitor Santos. 2023. “Global Determinants of Education Reform, 1960 to 2017.” Sociology of Education 96 (2): 149–67.
 
Choi, Minju, Hannah K. D’Apice, Nadine Ann Skinner, and Patricia Bromley. 2023. “World Culture, Education, and Organization.” In Oxford Handbook on Education and Globalization, edited by Paola Mattei, Xavier Dumay, Eric Mangez, and Jacqueline Behrends, 119–46. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.