Michael Prentice is a linguistic anthropologist who focuses on language, management, and technology in contemporary South Korea. For his dissertation, he spent a year as an ethnographer-intern inside a steel conglomerate in Seoul. His dissertation seeks to understand how control operates in South Korean corporate worlds through an emphasis on the forms of writing, technologies, and events that mediate office life. In contrast to the image of centralized and top-down control emanating from family-...
The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Studies for academic year 2017-18: Dr. Peter Kwon.
Peter Banseok Kwon earned his Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages (focus: Modern and Contemporary Korean History) at Harvard University in 2016. Peter’s dissertation, “The Anatomy of Chaju Kukpang: Military-Civilian Convergence in the Development of the South Korean Defense Industry under Park Chung Hee, 1968-1979,” examines South Korea’s chaju kukpang (‘self-reliant national defense’) policy for independent...
The Soon Young Kim Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Korean Studies at the Korea Institute, Harvard University for Academic Year 2017-2018
The Korea Institute at Harvard University is accepting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in Korean Studies for the 2017-18 academic year. This Fellowship is open to all fields of study in KOREAN STUDIES and time period. However, preference may be given to scholars working on Korean historical topics related...
Dr. Nancy Lin received her Ph.D. from the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago in June, 2015. Her dissertation, “Representing Difference: Early 20th Century Japanese and Korean Art,” reconsiders the formation of the modern East Asian artistic canon by emphasizing the mutual engagement between Japan and Korea during the colonial occupation of Korea (1910-45). As Japanese and Korean artists experimented with new forms of representation and responded to Western artistic movements, they developed a shared visual culture despite the history of their uneven and...
The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Studies for academic year 2015-16: Dr. Maya Stiller. Dr. Maya Stiller is currently assistant professor of Korean art and visual culture at the University of Kansas. Following several years of research in Korea and Japan, she earned a doctoral degree in Korean Art History from Free University Berlin in 2008, and a Ph.D. in Asian Languages & Cultures (focus: Korean Buddhism) from UCLA in 2014. Through a combination of methodological approaches from Art History, Sociology and Religious Studies...
John (SP) Cho, currently a Fellow (Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow in AY 13-14) at the Korea Institute and a visiting lecturer at Boston University, will be joining the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College as an Assistant Professor in Global Studies this fall. Dr. Cho’s focus of research and teaching will be Global/Transnational LGBT Studies. We wish Dr. Cho all the best in the future!
The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the new 2014-15 Korea Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow at the Korea Institute, Harvard University.
Dennis Lee will receive his Ph.D. in Cultural and Comparative Studies focusing on early Korean-Japanese relations from the University of California, Los Angeles in June of 2014. His dissertation is entitled, "Keyhole-shaped Tombs and Unspoken Frontiers: Exploring the Borderlands of Early Korean-Japanese Relations in the 5th - 6th Centuries." His research looks at the frontiers of historical states that are "...
The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the new 2014-15 Korea Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow at the Korea Institute, Harvard University.
Dennis Lee will receive his Ph.D. in Cultural and Comparative Studies focusing on early Korean-Japanese relations from the University of California, Los Angeles in June of 2014. His dissertation is entitled, "Keyhole-shaped Tombs and Unspoken Frontiers: Exploring the Borderlands of Early Korean-Japanese Relations in the 5th - 6th Centuries." His research looks at the frontiers of historical states that are "invisible" in...
The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Studies for academic year 2014-15: Dr. Seong Uk Kim.
Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. in Korean Religions and Korean Buddhism from the University of California, Los Angeles in June of 2013. His dissertation is entitled, “Korean Sŏn Buddhism in the 19th Century: Paekp’a, Ch’oŭi and Buddhist-Confucian Interaction at the End of the Chosŏn Dynasty.” His research/teaching interests specialize in Korean Zen Buddhism with a subfield in Korean studies. He focuses on the Korean-Confucian...
The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the first Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow in 20th Century Korea for academic year 2013-14: Dr. John (Song Pae) Cho.
Dr. Cho received his Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in December of 2011. His dissertation is entitled, “The Luxury of Love: Queer Internet, Intimacy, and Insecurity in Post-IMF South Korea.” His research/teaching interests are in gender, sexuality, class and technology in South Korea and East Asia. Dr. Cho’s...
