Staff

East Asia National Resource Center (NRC)

Jisoo M. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures and Director of the Institute for Korean Studies at GW. She received her Ph.D. in Korean History from Columbia University. She is a specialist in gender and legal history of early modern Korea. 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 new book project titled Suspicious Deaths: Forensic Medicine, Dead Bodies, and Criminal Justice in Chosŏn Korea.

1957 E Street, NW, Suite 503L
Washington, DC 20052
Tel: (202) 994-6761
E-mail: jsk10@gwu.edu

Janet Steele is professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs, and the interim director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies. She received her Ph.D. in History from the Johns Hopkins University, and focuses on how culture is communicated through the mass media.

Dr. Steele is a frequent visitor to Southeast Asia where she lectures on topics ranging from the role of the press in a democratic society to specialized courses on narrative journalism. Her book, “Wars Within: The Story of Tempo, an Independent Magazine in Soeharto’s Indonesia,” focuses on Tempo magazine and its relationship to the politics and culture of New Order Indonesia. “Mediating Islam, Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia,” explores the relationship between journalism and Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Awarded two Fulbright teaching and research grants to Indonesia and a third to Serbia, she has served as a State Department speaker-specialist in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei, the Philippines, East Timor, Taiwan, Burma, Sudan, Egypt, India, Bangladesh, Jamaica, and Kosovo. The author of numerous articles on journalism theory and practice, her 2014 book, Email Dari Amerika, (Email from America), is a collection of newspaper columns written in Indonesian and originally published in the newspaper Surya. Her most recent book is called Malaysiakini and the Power of Independent Media in Malaysia.

1957 E St. NW, Suite 503M

Tel: (202) 994-2004

jesteele@gwu.edu

Dr. Lisa Lackney is the Program Associate for the East Asia National Resource Center. She graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2020 specializing in Japanese cultural history; her primary research is on the emotional experience of modernity in Japan during the 1920s-1930s.She has written and presented on a variety of topics including transhumanism in anime, Boy’s Love manga, and samurai films.

1957 E Street, NW, Suite 503N
Washington, DC 20052
Tel: (202) 994-5874
E-mail: lisa.lackney@gwu.edu

Robert Kincaid is the Program Coordinator for the East Asia National Resource Center.  He graduated from American University in 2021 majoring in International Relations with a regional focus of East Asia and the Pacific and specializes in cross-strait relations and the U.S-China relationship. His research interests also include U.S- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) relations. He has previoiusly worked in international exchange programming and has experience assisting with the coordination and execution of the State Department’s Young Southeast Asian Leaders Association (YSEALI).

1957 E Street, NW, Suite 503N
Washington, DC 20052
E-mail: r.kincaid@email.gwu.edu

Ziming (Owen) Wang is the K-12 Outreach Assistant for the East Asian National Resource Center. He earned his BA diploma in Philosophy and International Affairs.  He is currently enrolled in a MA program in International Affairs with concentration in Conflict Resolution. He has been a teaching staff to middle school students and a coordinator for K-12 Model United Nations conferences in China. 

1957 E St NW, Suite 503,

Washington, DC 20052

Email: zimingxlf@gwu.edu

​Ye Gang Lee (she/her) is the Digital Communications Assistant for the East Asia National Resource Center (NRC). She is currently a third-year BA student studying International Affairs and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Within NRC, Ye Gang manages the NRC’s social media accounts and other online presences. 

1957 E Street, NW, Suite 503
Washington, DC 20052
E-mail: yegang.lee@gwu.edu

GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS)

1957 E Street, NW, Suite 503
Washington, DC 20052
E-mail: seandolan@gwu.edu

1957 E Street, NW, Suite 503C
Washington, DC 20052
E-mail: james.davisson@gwu.edu

Sigur Center for Asian Studies

1957 E Street, NW, Suite 503P
Washington, DC 20052
E-mail: h.rasheed@email.gwu.edu

East Asian Languages & Literatures

Department Chair, The Korea Foundation and Kim-Renaud Associate Professor of Korean Language and Culture Studies

Dr. Immanuel Kim is a specialist in North Korean literature and cinema. His research focuses on the changes and development, particularly in the representations of women, sexuality, and memory, of North Korean literature from the 1960s to present day. His book Rewriting Revolution: Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction explores the complex and dynamic literary culture that has deeply impacted the society. His second book called Laughing North Koreans: Culture of the Film Industry is on North Korean comedy films and the ways in which humor has been an integral component of the everyday life. By exploring comedy films and comedians, Dr. Kim looks past the ostensible propaganda and examines the agency of laughter. Dr. Kim has also translated a North Korean novel called Friend by Paek Nam-nyong.

801 22nd Street, NW
Rome Hall 452
Washington, DC 20052
E-mail: ikim52@gwu.edu