Associate Professor

Phone:  309-677-2430

Fax:      309-677-3813

Email:   oak@bradley.edu

As an associate professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Dr. Choi’s primary duty is teaching undergraduate students (including academic advisement, curriculum development, etc.), as well as conducting research and various service activities. She teaches various courses in the field of textiles and apparel, such as Clothing and Human Behavior, Apparel Quality Analysis, and International Trends in Textiles and Apparels. She also teaches one FCS core course, Family Systems and Applications.

Her current research interests focus on protective textiles and innovative textile finishing applications in consumer textiles. She has co-authored and published a paper on fabrics and garments that provide protection from the ultraviolet radiation in the Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences. She is also working on a project that attempts to establish theories of the chemical reaction mechanism of acid dyes on micro-denier nylon fabrics. Another project in progress is about recycling used cooking fats in soap manufacturing. She’s very interested in global/environmental issues in consumer textiles and apparel and would like to develop more research projects in this area.

Dr. Choi finds it hard to describe her teaching style, but her teaching “philosophy” includes “Do not laugh at your students, laugh with them!” and “Test what they know, not what they don’t know.” Open communication inside and outside the classroom is very important to her. She’s flexible and tries to think of students’ needs before her own. She considers it very important that students become independent and do things their own creative ways.

Degrees & Certification
Born and raised in South Korea, Dr. Choi has a BS in family and consumer sciences and MEd in FCS education from Keimyung University (Daegu, South Korea). She also has an MS in textiles and clothing fro Colorado State University and a PhD in textiles from the University of Tennessee.

Scholary Activity since 2004 (Adobe Acrobat format)