Ms. Fahy is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Korean Studies Institute. Prior to this she held a post-doctoral fellowship in Paris, France at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. In 2009, she earned her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. Ms. Fahy conducted ethnographic research with North Koreans living in Seoul and Tokyo, who survived the 1990s famine. Her work is published in Anthropology Today and forthcoming in Food, Culture and Society. Her first monograph The Biography of Loss: Collective Suffering and Social Fracture in North Korea, is under review at Columbia University Press.