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… time as a postdoctoral associate at the Council on East Asian Studies at the MacMillan Center, Leland worked on … the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. As a historian of Korea, her research interests range widely to include … state. Her dissertation—Agriculture and Development in an Age of Empire: Institutions, Associations, and Market …

… Associates Russell Burge is a historian of modern Korea. His dissertation, “The Promised Republic: … and industrialists who have anchored our histories of East Asian development and focusing on questions of urban … Concubines and Illegitimate Children in the Japanese Empire, 1868–1945,” traces the history of family law in the …

… of mountain asceticism.  Julia received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University in … ghosts, and relics. Na Sil Heo is a historian of modern Korea, with research interests in studies of childhood, the … intellectual and political history. His dissertation, “Empire of Luck: Trust and Suspicion in Early China,” examines …

… Faculty & Scholars Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian Studies Jeongsoo Shin received his Ph.D in pre-modern … Washington, Seattle in 2011. He studies garden culture in Korea and China, and is currently focused on miniature rocks, … relocation sites, Sugimoto’s book will explore how, in the age of multiculturalism and green urbanism, certain native …

… Her areas of specialty are film aesthetics and East Asian cinema. Her primary research focuses on how local … cinema. Nicole Cohen is a historian of modern Japan and Korea. She graduated as an East Asian Studies and History … at Columbia University. Her dissertation, “Children of Empire: Growing up Japanese in Colonial Seoul, 1880-1946,” …

… he has taught since 1981. His publications include The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900 (University of … century Colombia; slavery and the law in the Spanish empire; and the history of Indian and black royalists in … Her new book, Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution , which was published by Cambridge in 2014, …

… to freedom Recounts of his fight to survive in North Korea, his path to China and America. His current work on North Korea at the Bush Institute. Joseph Kim is an Associate and … Institute. He was born and raised in North Korea. At the age of 12, his father died of starvation, and he was …

… to freedom Recounts of his fight to survive in North Korea, his path to China and America. His current work on North Korea at the Bush Institute. Joseph Kim is an Associate and … Institute. He was born and raised in North Korea. At the age of 12, his father died of starvation, and he was …

… patterns of storage and social change in Mumun Period Korea (c. 1500-300 BC). Bale is interested in how and why the … ability to alter the very notion of the real in the age of mechanical reproduction. Through a critical … mind, he taught a seminar entitled “Tracking Contemporary Asian Cinema” in the 2013 Spring semester. … Council on East …