Postdoc

Welcome Back to Fall Term 2025 at Harvard! We hope you all had a wonderful and restorative and summer. The Korea Institute happily welcomes you back to the Harvard campus for the fall 2025 semester! Please reach out to the Korea Institute to learn about...

Dr. Chaeyoung Lee’s book project, Music and Freedom Across the Border: Exploring the Music-Making of North Korean Defectors in South Korean Capitalism, examines the intersections of music, freedom, labor, neoliberalism, the state, borders, and imagination...

Dr. Sung Eun Kim is an interdisciplinary historian of modern Korea whose research focuses on the intersections of transnational Korean militarism and U.S. imperialism in the Asia-Pacific region, and the racial and sexual politics of colonial soldiering...

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...

Dr. Jeehyun Choi is a scholar of Asian American literature whose research interests lie at the intersection of Korean diasporic literatures, the global history of leftist cultural and social movements, and translation studies. She is currently working on...

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...

Dr. Bo kyung Blenda Im is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in popular culture and Christianity in Korea and the Korean diaspora. During her second year in AY22-23, as the Global Korean Diasporas Postdoctoral Fellow, Blenda will continue to work on her...

Bridget Martin is an urban geographer and political geographer researching the US-Korea alliance through the lenses of land, territory, terrain, and sovereignty. Her research traces the logics, techniques, laws, and ambiguities that made widespread...

Yoolim Kim is a psycholinguist researching language processing, and in particular, the ways in which the language's written form affects the mental representation of the language. She specializes in Hangul and is interested in how the relationship between...

Bridget Martin is a geographer researching the evolution of the role of land in the US-South Korea security alliance from 1945 into the present moment. She has published research articles in journals such as Political Geography and International Journal...