#  Announcing the 2024-25 SBS Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Sciences at the Korea Institute, Dr. Sung Eun Kim 

 





June 06, 2024

 

 

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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. He will begin his position as Assistant Professor of Korean Studies in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University in the Fall of 2025. His research draws from the fields of Korean studies, critical race and gender studies, and U.S. war and empire studies to expand the question of U.S. colonialism in modern Korean history. He is currently working on his book manuscript, *Transcolonial Korea: Race, Gender, and the Making of KATUSA under U.S. Military Empire, 1945–2010*, which offers a critical history of the Korean Augmentation Troops to the U.S. Army, a unit of South Korean soldiers that have been conscripted into the U.S. Army in Korea from 1950 to the present. He received his Ph.D. in modern Korean history from UCLA, his M.A. in East Asian Regional Studies from Columbia University, and his B.A. in Asian Studies and Political Science from Vassar College.

Fields of study and research topic: Korean studies; Korean War history; U.S. war and empire studies; race, gender, and sexuality studies; queer studies



 

 

 



 

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