Underwood International College

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California - Los Angeles, 2012
• M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California - Los Angeles, 2005
• B.A., History and Asian Studies, Williams College, 1997

Education

Ph.D., Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California - Los Angeles, 2012

M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California - Los Angeles, 2005

B.A., History and Asian Studies, Williams College, 1997

Courses and Current Research Areas

• Topics in Modern Korean History
• Topics in Asian Economic History
• Topics in Global Innovation
• Research Design and Quantitative Methods (RDQM)
• World History
• Eastern Civilization

Selected Publications

Books

Koryosa: The History of Koryo, The Annals of the Kings, 918-1095, edited by Howard Kahm, John B. Duncan, Lee Junghoon, Park Jongki, and Edward J. Shultz (University of Hawai’i Press, 2024)

Article

“Playing with Power: American Businesspeople, Diplomacy, and Electricity in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Korea,” co-authored with Hanmee Na Kim, Journal of Korean Studies 29-1 (2024): 3-32 

“A Capital Idea: Social and Economic Implications of Ritual Space in Kaegyong during the Early Koryo Period,” co-authored with Sinwoo Lee, Journal of Asian History 56 (2022): 27-52

 “Begging for Rain: Economic and Social Effects of Climate in the Early Koryo Period,” co-authored with Dennis Lee, Journal of Korean Studies 26-1 (2021): 3-23

"Selling Smiles: Emotional Labor and Labor-Management Relations in 1930s Colonial Korea Department Stores," co-authored with Jinseok Oh, Journal of Korean Studies 23-1 (2018): 3-24

"Teaching Democracy: The Discourse of Democracy and Education Reforms under the American Military Occupation of Korea, 1945-1948," Acta Koreana 20-2 (2017): 529-561

"Road to School: Primary School Participation in Korea, 1911-1960," co-authored with Dae Hyung Woo, Journal of American-East Asian Relations 24 (2017): 184-208

"Between Empire and Nation: A Micro-Historical Approach to Japanese Repatriation and the Korean Economy During the American Occupation of Korea, 1945-1948," Journal of Contemporary History 51-1 (2016): 124-144

"Sovereignty and Central Banking: Evidence from the East Asian Region in the Early 1900s," co-authored with Sung Jun Park, Global Economic Review 44-2 (2015): 167-183

 Book Chapters

"'They couldn't let us profit, it wouldn't be civilized': Economic Modalities and Core-Periphery Relationships in the Political Economy of Firefly-Serenity" in Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series, edited by Michael Goodrum and Philip Smith (Rowman & Littlfield, 2015), 155-170