o Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

o (2024-Present) Associate Professor of History, Kyungpook National University, Korea
o (2019-2023) Assistant Professor of History, Kyungpook National University, Korea
o (2016~2018) Visiting Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, University of Tuebingen, Germany
o (2013-2014) Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, Middlebury College, USA

Modern Korea, United States and the World, Korea-US Relations, Cold War, Transpacific Migrations

Journal Articles:

o “A Sovereign New Korea: North Korea’s Postcolonial State Building, Women’s Liberation, and Early Cold War Internationalism, 1945-1954,” Critical Asian Studies 57 no. 2(June 2025): 236-252.

o Co-authored with H. Jeon, “Postcolonial Nation Building and State Feminism: Institutionalizing the North Korean Democratic Women’s Union, 1945-1949,” Acta Koreana 28 no. 1(June 2025): 79-100.

o “Reformulating Militarized Masculinity in Cold War Borderlands: Laboring Men in South Korea’s American Military Camptowns,” International Journal of Korean History 30 no. 1(June 2025): 157-191.

o “’Re-membering’ South Korea’s Militarized Landscapes in Pax Americana: Post-Cold War US Military Camps, Camptwons, and Former Camptown Women,” International Journal of Korean History 28 no.2 (August 2023): 191-217.

o “Seoul’s Bando Hotel: A Postwar Space of Americanism and Cold War Internationalism.”  Korea Journal 61 no.4 (winter 2021): 200-228.

o “Intercultural Vanguards and Democratization Witnesses: American Peace Corps Volunteer Experiences in South Korea.” The Korean Journal of American History [미국사연구] 54 (November 2021): 177-215.

o “Un-Ugly Americans and New Frontier Pioneers: Peace Corps Identities and Meanings in the Kennedy Era.” The Korean Journal of American History [미국사연구] 52 (November 2020): 63-88.

o “Cold War Brotherhood Contested: KATUSAs, Slicky boys, American G.I.s, and the Status of  Forces Agreement in Post-Armistice South Korea, 1954-1966.” Critical Asian Studies 51 no.2 (June 2019): 253-273.

o “Militarized Landscapes of Yongsan: From Japanese Imperial to ‘Little America’ in Early Cold War Korea.” Korea Journal 58 no.1 (March 2018): 121-149.

o “Our Children of the Enemy: The Amerasian Homecoming Act of 1987 and Bringing ‘Home’ Vietnamese Amerasians.” Journal of American Studies [미국학논집] 45 no. 1 (May 2013): 245-266.

Edited Volumes:
o “The ‘Amerasian’ Knot: Transpacific Crossings of ‘GI Babies’ from Korea to the United States.” In Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Interactions, Nationalism, Gender and Lineage. Eds. Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2015: 503-526.

o “An Indispensable Edge: American Military Camptowns in Postwar Korea, 1954-1971.” In Mobile Subjects: Boundaries and Identities in Modern Korean Diaspora. Edited by Wen-hsin Yeh. UC Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies Publications, 2013: 88-121.