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My research centers on issues related to science and sovereignty in the global Cold War. With modern North and South Korean history as a lens, I focus on the dynamics and characteristics of colonial, socialist, and liberal articulations of both the nation and modernity. Upon request, I am more than happy to share completed versions of my papers as well as working drafts.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
"An Atomic Age Unleashed: Emancipation and Erasure in Early Korean Accounts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings." Journal of Asian Studies , 82:2 (May, 2023): 144–162, (Abstract).
"'We Go on Our Own Boats:' Korean Migrants and the Politics of Transportation Infrastructure in the Japanese Empire." International Review of Social History, 67:2 (August, 2022): 295-316, (Abstract).
"'He Rest for His Labors:' Racialized Recreation and Missionary Science in Colonial Korea." positions: asia critique 29:2 (May, 2021): 347-372, (Abstract).
Working Papers
“Ensigning the Nation: Public Science and Political Symbolism in the Post-Liberation Koreas.”
“Empowered Pasts and Atomic Futures: Energy in North and South Korean Historiography.”
“Seeing the World Through the Atom: Readings of Fallout in the Cold War Koreas.”
“Beasts of Burden: Cold War Planning and the Science of Animal Mobilization in North Korea.” (with Sunho Ko)
“Speaking to the Machine: Esperanto on the Radio in the Japanese Empire.” (with Edwin Michielsen)
“Writing the Nuclear North: Techno-Orientalism and the Anglophone Writing on the DPRK.”
Archival Experience
Over the years, I have developed a relative degree of familiarity with archives containing mid-20th century East Asian popular and academic science writing. I have particular experience with the Korean holdings at the American Library of Congress and the National Library of Korea. I have also worked extensively with the collections at Korea University, Yonsei University and Seoul National University. Please feel free to contact me if there is anyway that I can assist colleagues in locating materials.
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