Betsy Yoon

Education

M.L.I.S., Library and Information Studies, CUNY, Queens College, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Flushing United States

M.I.A., International Affairs, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs New York United States

B.A., English, Boston College Chestnut Hill United States

Books

Yoon, B. Socialist Korea and anti-imperialist struggles in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. 1804 Books. In Progress.

Journal Articles

Yoon, B. (2023). A Genealogy of Open. In the Library With the Lead Pipe,

Slow librarianship: A literature review. In Progress.

Peace under imperialism: North Korea, sanctions, and discourse. In Progress.

Book Chapters

(2024). Essay on the 70th Anniversay of the Fatherland Liberation War Victory. Internationalism in Practice: claudia Jones, Black Liberation, and the "Bestial" War on Korea Iskra Books.

Yoon, B., & Bae, M. DEEP in the archive: An itinerary for Korean liberation. Detours: A decolonial guide to Korea Duke University Press.

Media Contributions

Yoon, B. (2023). Biden’s Renewal of Trump’s North Korea Travel Ban Will Hurt Peace Efforts. Truthout..

Presentations

Yoon, B. (2025, July 26). The Long Revolution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. People's Summit for Korea. New York, NY: Nodutdol for Korean Community Development.

Yoon, B. (2025, July 26). Revolutionary Archives: Practice and Politics. People's Summit for Korea. New York, NY: Nodutdol for Korean Community Development.

Yoon, B. (2025, July 25). People-to-People: Reflections from Delegations to North Korea. People's Summit for Korea. New York, NY: Nodutdol for Korean Community Development.

Yoon, E. (2023, December 1). Dialectical materialism and slow librarianship. ACRL/NY 2023 Sympoisum: Embracing Slow Librarianship. New York, NY

Yoon, E. (2023, March 24). A Genealogy of Open. Baruch College Faculty Research Symposium.

Yoon, B. (2022, November 27). Pedagogy and the Korea Education and Exposure Program. Socialist Education in Korea Book Launch and Panel Talk. Online

Yoon, B. (2022, March 4). A Materialist Approach to Understanding Information and Society. Critical Race Theory in Libraries - Case Studies. Online: Metropolitan New York Library Council, ACRL/NY, NYU Libraries.

Yoon, B. (2022, October 13). Imperialism, the Korean peninsula, and the role of Koreans in the US . Building Peace on the Korean Peninsula: Diplomacy, Humanitarianism, Grassroots Primacy, and Critique of Militarism. Honolulu, HI: Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i.

Bakaitis, E., Cabana, A., Philogene, S., Smith-Cruz, S., & Yoon, B. (2025, December 6). Breaking Open: Race and Labor in Open Pedagogies at CUNY. ACRL/NY 2019 Annual Symposium. New York, NY: ACRL/NY.

Yoon, B. (2019, May 18). The Plurality of Critical Pedagogies. Critical Pedagogy Symposium. : Metropolitan New York Library Council, ACRL/NY, Library Juice Press.

Other Scholarly Works