Category: Past Events

Sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Institute for Korean Studies, East Asia National Resource Center, Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute, and GW Department of Sociology

Thursday, October 14, 2021 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT

Zoom Event

Join a panel of experts to talk about the history and contemporary trends of transnational migration between East Asia and Latin America.

Transnational migration between East Asia and Latin America has been occurring for centuries, particularly since the trade of slave and indentured labor across the Atlantic and Caribbean. The oftentimes unsung history of East Asian diasporic communities in Latin America is one marked by geopolitical and geoeconomic pressures, discrimination and confusion, adaptation and resilience, and citizenship and nation-building. This event brings together a panel of experts to call attention to the transnational histories of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean communities in the Spanish Caribbean, Central America, and South America.

This event will be on the record and a recording will be available on the NRC YouTube channel after the event. 

Registration

The event is open to the public. Registered guests will receive details for joining the Zoom meeting.

Speakers

• Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, Ethnic Studies, and American Studies, Brown University
  • “Chinese Migration to the Americas and Empires, 16th century to Present”
• Taku Suzuki, Professor in International Studies, Denison University
  • “Transpacific Alienation: Nikkei Communities in Latin America and Japan”
• Rachel Lim, Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A&M
  • “The Multiple Trajectories of Korean Migrants to and from Mexico”

Moderator

Hiromi Ishizawa, Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology, GW

Speakers

Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor of History, American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University. She was Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Brown from 2002-2014, and Director of the Consortium on Advanced Studies in Cuba during the 2014-2015 Academic Year, and again in Spring 2019. In 2020, she was elected International Fellow of the Mexican Academy of Historians. In 2019-20, she was the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Centennial Fellow in the Dynamics of Place to research and write a book on The Chinese in the Spanish Empire, From Manila in the 16th Century to Cuba in the 19th Century. She has received two Fulbright fellowships, to Brazil and Peru, and lectures extensively in the United States, Asia, Latin America and Caribbean and Europe, in three languages (English, Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, Spanish). She has written, edited, and published 11 books, on three main topics, in 4 languages and 5 continents: indigenous peoples on the U.S.-Mexico border; Asians in the Americas, with special attention to the Chinese diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean; diversity, multiculturalism, race, race relations and minority politics in the U.S. Select publications include: Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization (1999; e-version 2010); Asians in the Americas: Transculturation and Power (2002); Voluntary Associations in the Chinese Diaspora (2006); Asia and Latin America (2006); Afro-Asia  (2008); and Towards a Third Literature: Chinese Writings in the Americas (2012). She received her B.A in Political Science from Stanford University and her PhD in Latin American/Caribbean history from the University of Texas at Austin.

Taku Suzuki is Professor of International Studies at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He has conducted research on the Okinawan immigrant communities in Bolivia and Okinawan-Bolivian immigrant communities in Japan, war and peace tourism in Okinawa, and post-WW II Okinawan repatriation from the Japanese colonial Micronesia. He is the author of Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010). Currently, he is researching on digital divide within central Ohio’s Bhutanese refugee community that has impacted the community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the struggles among Kurdish, Iranian, and other asylum seekers who pursue legal status in Japan. He earned Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Minnesota, and he was a Freeman Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Diaspora Studies at Wesleyan University.

Rachel Lim is Visiting Assistant Professor and Accountability, Climate, Equity, and Scholarship (ACES) Fellow in the Department of History at Texas A&M University. Her research and teaching interests include migration, globalization, and comparative race and ethnicity at the intersection of Asia and the Américas. Her current book project, Itinerant Belonging: Korean Transnational Migration to and from Mexico, uses interdisciplinary research methods to examine the history of Korean migration to Mexico, from the start of the twentieth century to the present. Rachel received her PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and she has written for multiple scholarly and popular venues, including The Journal of Asian American Studies, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and The Washington Post.

Twitter: @Lim_Rachel_H

Moderator

Hiromi Ishizawa is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Sociology department at GW. Her research interests are in the areas of social and family demography, immigration, sociology of language, and urban sociology. Her primary research goal is to understand diversity in immigrants’ pathways of incorporation into a host society. In particular, she focuses on the residential and familial contexts in which immigrants and their children reside, and how these contexts affect whether, and the manner in which, they are integrated into a host society.

Thursday, September 30, 2021

11:30 AM – 12:45 PM EDT

WebEx Events

The Sigur Center for Asian Studies will host Dr. Shelley Rigger to launch her new book, The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China’s Economic Rise as the sixth edition of the 2021 New Books in Asian Studies series. This event will also feature Richard Haddock, Program Associate at the East Asia National Resource Center, as a moderator. 

Dr. Rigger’s new book discusses how the once-secretive, isolated People’s Republic of China became the factory to the world. Dr. Rigger convincingly demonstrates that the answer is Taiwan. She follows the evolution of Taiwan’s influence from the period when Deng Xiaoping lifted Mao’s prohibitions on business in the late 1970s, allowing investors from Taiwan to collaborate with local officials in the PRC to transform mainland China into a manufacturing powerhouse. After World War II, Taiwan’s fleet-footed export-oriented manufacturing firms became essential links in global supply chains. In the late 1980s, Taiwanese firms seized the opportunity to lower production costs by moving to the PRC, which was seeking foreign investment to fuel its industrial rise. Within a few years, Taiwan’s traditional manufacturing had largely relocated to the PRC, opening space for a wave of new business creation in information technology. The Tiger Leading the Dragon traces the development of the cross-Taiwan Strait economic relationship and explores how Taiwanese firms and individuals transformed Chinese business practices. It also reveals their contributions to Chinese consumer behavior, philanthropy, religion, popular culture, and law.

Shelley Rigger is the Brown Professor of East Asian Politics at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. She has a PhD in Government from Harvard University and a BA in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University. She has been a visiting researcher at National Chengchi University in Taiwan (2005) and a visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai (2006). Rigger is the author of two books on Taiwan’s domestic politics: Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy (Routledge 1999) and From Opposition to Power: Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2001). She has published articles on Taiwan’s domestic politics, the national identity issue in Taiwan-China relations and related topics. Her current research studies the effects of cross-strait economic interactions on Taiwan people’s perceptions of Mainland China. Her monograph, “Taiwan’s Rising Rationalism: Generations, Politics and ‘Taiwan Nationalism’” was published by the East West Center in Washington in November 2006.

Richard J. Haddock is currently the Program Associate for the East Asia National Resource Center (NRC), which is supported by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education. In this role, Mr. Haddock is primarily responsible for East Asia learning content development, strategic planning and grant management, liaising with key community and educational stakeholders, and reporting to the Department of Education. He is also a member of the UC Berkeley U.S.-Taiwan Next Generation Working Group, where he is conducting a research project on the current state and future prospects of Taiwan Studies in the United States. He has held positions at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, the National Democratic Institute’s Asia team, the American Institute in Taiwan’s Public Diplomacy Section, and the U.S. Department of State. Mr. Haddock is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University, focusing on digital democracy and e-governance development in the Asia-Pacific. He holds an M.A. in Asian Studies from the Elliott School, with a concentration on domestic politics and foreign policy of East Asia. He graduated from the University of Central Florida with a B.A. in Political Science and minors in Asian Studies and Diplomacy.

Friday, September 24, 2021

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT

Zoom Event

The George Washington University is pleased to present the 2021 Mid-Autumn Festival Virtual Celebration in special partnership with the GW Asian and Pacific Islander Alumni Network. Grab a few mooncakes and a cup of tea this lunch break and ZOOM into our celebration of the largest Asian holiday in the fall! This Mid-Autumn Festival, we will learn about how GW students celebrate this large traditional holiday as well as have the treat of seeing them showcase their talent.

This free virtual event will be held in English and is open to the public.

The program begins at 12:00pm EDT on Friday, September 24th. Registered guests will receive an email with instructions for joining the webinar prior to the event. Registration closes at 12:00pm EDT on September 24th, 24 hours before the event begins. Media inquiries must be sent to gwmedia@gwu.edu in advance. If you need specific accommodations, please contact gsigur@gwu.edu with at least 3 business days’ notice.

Friday, October 1, 2021 | 8:30 am – 9:45 am EDT

Livestream via ZOOM

Speakers

Brooke Freeman – International Inclusion and Autism Specialist – She is a Special Education teacher at Dulwich College Shanghai and is well known throughout Shanghai as an advocate for those with additional needs. Mrs. Freeman has worked in schools in China, Africa and in the United States over the last 11 years. She graduated from Wilkes University with a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and teaching licences. Her first 4 years after graduation she worked in a county special services school for students that were not able to be in mainstream classes. During her time teaching in the US, she became double mastered in Special Education and Physical and Health Science. After meeting her husband Michael, she took her career abroad and became an International Educator and the Director of Student Support. Brooke plans to become a Doctoral student in 2022.

Michael Freeman currently is an education consultant for international and private schools. His focus is developing and implementing secondary/transition education curriculum, developing school climate, teacher training /professional development, and school leadership planning strategies. He also privately consults and advocates for parents in regards of IEP expectations, rights, strategies, and other challenging special education topics. Michael has worked or consulted in Africa, Asia, and The United States of America. He has held roles as special education teacher, administrator, home resident manager for people with disabilities, and education consultant. Michaels has over a decade of experience serving youths with disabilities. He is passionate about creating opportunities for youths with disabilities and developing the youth and family. Michaels believes that everyone has a gift and strength to offer the world; it is just discovering the intelligence. Michael Freeman is a doctoral candidate, and his concentration is leadership, special education, and transition education.

Speaker

Hung-jen Wang

Associate Professor of Political Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; East Asia Voices Initiative (EAVI) Fellow, East Asia NRC  

Moderator

Graham Cornwell

 Assistant Dean of Research, Elliott School of International Affairs

Speaker

Hung-jen Wang is an Associate Professor of Political Science at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. His research interests focus mainly on Post-/Non-Western IR theory, Chinese foreign policy, and the cross-Taiwan Strait relations. Dr. Wang is the author of the book, The Rise of China and Chinese International Relations (IR) Scholarship (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013), and co-author of China and International Theory: The Balance of Relationships (Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019). He has also published journal articles in The China Quarterly, Global Constitutionalism, and others. He received PhD in International Politics from ERCCT/Political Science department at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Speakers

Ho-Young Ahn is the President of the University of North Korean Studies, a premier institution for research and education on North Korea related issues. Ambassador Ahn served as the Republic of Korea’s Ambassador to the United States (2013-17), Deputy Minister for Trade at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador to the European Union and Belgium, and the First Vice Foreign Minister. Ambassador Ahn studied international relations and law at Seoul National University (BA), Georgetown University (MS), Korea National Open University (LLB) and the Georgetown Law School (LLM). He received a Ph.D degree (Hon) in political science from Kyung-Nam University.

Kathleen Stephens is the President and CEO of the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI). A former U.S. Foreign Service Officer, she served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea from 2008 to 2011. Her other overseas assignments included postings to China, former Yugoslavia, Portugal, Northern Ireland, where she was U.S. Consul General in Belfast during the negotiations culminating in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, and India, where she was U.S. Charge ‘d Affaires (2014-2015). Ambassador Stephens also served in a number of policy positions in Washington at the Department of State and the White House. These included acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (2012), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (2005-2007), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2003-2005), and National Security Council Director for European Affairs at the Clinton White House.

Frank Jannuzi joined the Mansfield Foundation as President and Chief Executive Officer in April 2014. He previously served as Deputy Executive Director (Advocacy, Policy and Research) at Amnesty International, USA. There he shaped and promoted legislation and policies to advance universal human rights, protect individuals and communities at risk, and free prisoners of conscience. From 1997-2012 Mr. Jannuzi was Policy Director, East Asian and Pacific Affairs, for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he advised Committee Chairmen Joseph Biden and John Kerry on a range of security, political, economic, and human rights issues pertinent to U.S. relations with East Asia. During his tenure with the Foreign Relations Committee he also was a Hitachi Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations from 2006-2007, serving as a visiting lecturer at Keio University and a visiting scholar at the Institute of International Policy Studies in Tokyo.  Early in his career he served for nine years as an analyst in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Mr. Jannuzi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and Master in Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  He has traveled throughout Asia and has written extensively on East Asia policy issues, including U.S. relations with Japan, China, and North Korea.

Jung-Chul Lee is a professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University. He was a professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Soongsil University (2006-2021) and the Chief of Economic Security Research Team at the Samsung Economic Research Institute (2002-2006). In 2014 he served as a visiting scholar at the George Washington University’s Sigur Center for Asian Studies. He has written many books and articles on North Korea, including “Sanctions for Nuclear Inhibition: Comparing Sanction Conditions between Iran and North Korea”(Asian Perspective, 2019), “Costly Signals, Failed Deterrence and a New Alternative”(Legislative Studies in Korean, 2017), “Obama Doctrine and US Policy towards North Korea: Geopolitics, Nuclear Strategy, and Value iplomacy,” (Journal of Korean Politics in Korean, 2016) and “Making Sense of North Korea: How to Respond to Pyongyang’s Charm Offensive,”(Foreign Affairs, 2015). He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (1991) from Seoul National University and an M.A. (1997) in Political Science from Seoul National University. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at Seoul National University in 2002.

Celeste Arrington is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at GW. She specializes in comparative politics, with a regional focus on the Koreas and Japan. Her research and teaching focus on law and social movements, the media, lawyers, policy processes, historical justice, North Korean human rights, and qualitative methods. She is also interested in the international relations and security of Northeast Asia and transnational activism. She is the author of Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Governmental Accountability in Japan and South Korea (2016) and has published in Comparative Political Studies, Law & Society Review, Journal of East Asian Studies, Pacific Affairs, Asian Survey, and theWashington Post, among others. She received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and an A.B. from Princeton University. She is currently writing a book that analyzes the role of lawyers and legal activism in Japanese and Korean policies related to persons with disabilities and tobacco control.

Yeon-Chul Kim is the chairman of the board of the Korea Peace Forum and a professor of the Department of Korea Unification at Inje University. He served as the Republic of Korea’s Minister of Unification. Prior to that, he was the president of the Korea Institute for National Unification and served as a policy advisor to Minister of Unification. He worked as a chief researcher at Samsung Economic Research Institute and a research professor at the Asiatic Research Institute (ARI), Korea University. He is the author of Dialogue of the Past 70 Years: Re-evaluating the History of Inter-Korean Relations and The Strategy of Negotiation. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Sungkyunkwan University.

Moderator

Yonho Kim is an Associate Research Professor of Practice and the Associate Director of GW Institute for Korean Studies. He specializes in North Korea’s mobile telecommunications and U.S. policy towards North Korea. Kim is the author of  North Korean Phone Money: Airtime Transfers as a Precursor to Mobile Payment System (2020), North Korea’s Mobile Telecommunications and Private Transportation Services in the Kim Jong-un Era (2019) and Cell Phones in North Korea: Has North Korea Entered the Telecommunications Revolution? (2014). His research findings were covered by various media outlets, including Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Yonhap News, and Libération. Prior to joining GWIKS, he extensively interacted with the Washington policy circle on the Korean peninsula as Senior Researcher of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Senior Reporter for Voice of America’s Korean Service, and Assistant Director of the Atlantic Council’s Program on Korea in Transition. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University, and an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Speakers

Ben de Guzman,

Director, DC Mayor’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs (opening remarks)

Dr. Patricia Chu

Professor of English; Deputy Chair of the Department of English, The George Washington University

Dr. Pawan Dhingra

Professor of American Studies; Faculty Equity and Inclusion Officer, Amherst College

Audrey Pan

Community Organizer and Programs Associate, OCA-GH; Programs Chair, Chinatown Youth Initiatives

Rui Zhong

Program Associate, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Wilson Center

Hye Jun Seo

MA Asian Studies student, The George Washington University

Daphne Lee

Journalist (CBS, VICE, Nikkei Asia, Goldthread and others)

Moderator

Dr. Jisoo Kim

Co-Director, East Asia NRC; Director, GW Institute for Korean Studies; Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures, George Washington University

Speakers

Ben de Guzman is the Director of the Mayor’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs (MOAPIA). He has been a leading voice at the local and national level on issues of racial equity, immigrants’ rights, veterans’ affairs, and LGBT justice for twenty years. He comes to MOAPIA from the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs, where he served as the Community Outreach Specialist. During his tenure there, he helped execute two major first time events for the Office- the “District of Pride” LGBTQ cultural performance event and the 32nd Annual 17th Street High Heel Race, presented by the Mayor’s Office as lead organizer. He also served as both the Public Information Officer and the Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance Officer for the agency.

Patricia Chu is a professor of English and the Deputy Chair of the Department of English at the George Washington University. She studies Asian American and diasporic literature and film, Asian American Studies, and Women’s writing and autobiography. Her two most recent research projects have been informed by her own familt’s history of migration, loss and assimilation, and questions about understanding the past. She has released several publictions, including Where I Have Never Been: Asian American Narratives of Return, and In My Grandmother’s House which have been supported by a Columbian College Facilitating Grant and by a Robert H. Smith Research Fellowship.

Pawan Dhingra is an author, professor, and former curator and senior advisor of the Smithsonian Institution exhibition, Beyond Bollywood: Asian Indian Americans Shape the Nation. His byline includes The New York Times, CNN, The Conversation, Indian Express, and many other venues, and he and his work have been profiled in The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, Times of India, and elsewhere. His most recent book Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough (New York University Press 2020) has been profiled in these and other venues, and which author Min Jin Lee has said, “gets to the root of education obsessions.” He speaks from this work in the Netflix documentary, Spelling the Dream. He is the author of the award-winning Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream (Stanford University Press, 2012), which also has been profiled nationwide and internationally. He also authored the award-winning Managing Multicultural Lives: Asian American Professionals and the Challenge of Multiple Identities (Stanford University Press, 2007). Professor Dhingra co-authored the review text, Asian America: Sociological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, which is in its second edition (Polity Press, 2014 and 2021). He has served as president of the board of the South Asian American Digital Archive.

Audrey Pan is a Community Organizer and Programs Associates at OCA-GH where she works to strengthen the infrastructure of our youth programming and instill a culture of year-round civic engagement, political consciousness raising and arts & culture programming four our larger AAPI communities. In doing so, the hope is that the AAPI community will have the capacity to exert an influential voice in the public policy arena and in the social, racial and economic justice movement. Born and raised in NYC, she is also on the young professionals board of Chinatown Youth Initiatives whose power is to empower New York City youth with the knowledge and skills necessary to address the needs of Chinatown, Asian Americans, and other underrepresented communities. She grew up in NYC’s Chinatown and as the daughter of Chinese immigrants and former garment workers, she has always been a fierce advocate for fair and humane immigration policies and labor conditions. She holds a BA from Middlebury College in Sociology with minors in Education and Spanish and will begin law school this incoming fall to pursue community lawyering.

Rui Zhong is the Program Associate for the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center. She holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a BA in International Studies from Emory University. She has completed coursework at Peking University and earned a graduate certificate at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in China. At the Kissinger Institute, she manages Mapping China’s Cultural Genome, a curated project that collects top-level speeches and commentary on China’s global cultural ambitions. Her research interests include China’s role in the East Asian Political Economy and how nationalist interests can impact business, technology and cultural policies. Rui’s writing has appeared in Foreign Policy,The Washington Post, Chinafile and more.

Daphne K. Lee is a New York-based journalist covering food and culture. Her work has appeared on CBS News, VICE, Goldthread, Popula, and more. She was previously an editor overseeing The News Lens International, a Taiwan-based digital media outlet.

Moderator

Jisoo M. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures. She currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Korean Studies and the Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center at GW. She also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Studies. She is a specialist in gender, law, and emotions in Korean history. Her broader research interests include gender and sexuality, crime and justice, forensic medicine, literary representations of the law, history of emotions, vernacular, and gender writing. She is the author of The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2017 James Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the co-editor of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled Sexual Desire, Crime, and Gendered Subjects: A History of Adultery Law in Korea. She received her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.

Speaker

Congressman Andy Kim was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018. He represents the Third Congressional District of New Jersey, which stretches from the Delaware River to the Jersey Shore encompassing most of Burlington County and parts of Ocean County. As a member of the House, Congressman Kim serves on the House Armed Services Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Committee on Small Business. In his first term, Congressman Kim passed bills into law that help military servicemembers and their families find economic opportunities and stopped the use of harmful chemicals that impact New Jersey’s water by the U.S. military. In addition, Congressman Kim has held more than two dozen town halls and has helped constituents by resolving more than 4,300 issues with federal agencies. Congressman Kim grew up in South Jersey, the proud son of Korean immigrants, where he attended public K-12 schools before becoming a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to serving in the House, Congressman Kim worked as a career public servant under both Democrats and Republicans. He served at USAID, the Pentagon, the State Department, the White House National Security Council, and in Afghanistan as an advisor to Generals Petraeus and Allen. He currently lives in Burlington county with his wife and two baby boys.

Moderator

Jisoo M. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures. She currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Korean Studies and the Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center at GW. She also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Studies. She is a specialist in gender, law, and emotions in Korean history. Her broader research interests include gender and sexuality, crime and justice, forensic medicine, literary representations of the law, history of emotions, vernacular, and gender writing. She is the author of The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2017 James Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the co-editor of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled Sexual Desire, Crime, and Gendered Subjects: A History of Adultery Law in Korea. She received her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.