PhD, 2021 Dr. Gong is an assistant professor (tenure-track) in Higher Education/Higher Education Administration in the Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies (ELPTS) at the University of Alabama. She is a recipient of the Thomas G. Dyer Outstanding Dissertation Research Award (2020-2021) and an AERA-NSF Doctoral Dissertation Grant Award (2019-2020). Before joining the University of Alabama, she worked as a research faculty at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor and as a lecturer at Yonsei University in South Korea. She received her PhD in Higher Education in the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia with a graduate certificate in Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies in the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy. She also holds an MA in Education, specializing in Higher Education, from Yonsei University, and a BA and BPA from Sookmyung Women's University in South Korea. Her work has been presented at national conferences in the US (e.g. ASHE, AERA, AEFP) and published in peer-reviewed journals in both the US and South Korea over the past 10 years.
