Dr. Solmi Chung's research focuses on Korean traditional fantasy, with a particular emphasis on pre-modern records documenting ghosts, spirits, and monsters. In her doctoral dissertation (2021), Chung explored the transformative encounters between imaginative entities and the introduction of novel ideologies, religions, philosophies, and cultures to trace the altered perceptions and sensory experiences of humans.

As a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, Chung plans to investigate how pre-modern...

Dr. Youngeun Koo is the 2023–24 SBS Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Sciences. Her research focuses on the entanglements of care, humanitarianism, and development as crucial sites of social governance in the Global South. Her current book project, tentatively titled Expert, Empire, and Dictator: The Transnational Politics of Care and the Making of International Adoption in Cold War South Korea, 1961–1979, tells the story of the world’s longest-running and largest international adoption program from the little-known perspective of the first generation of...