Kyeong-Hee Choi is an associate professor of modern Korean literature at the University of Chicago. Her research centers on the relationship between the culture of publication and the historical experiences of modern Koreans, including the experiences of Japanese colonial rule, national division, the Korean War, the Cold War, and democratization. Her book Beneath the Vermilion Ink: Japanese Colonial Censorship and the Making of Modern Korean Literature is forthcoming.
Bruce Cumings is the department chair of the University of Chicago History Department and the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College. His research and teaching focus on modern Korean history, 20th century international history, U.S.-East Asian relations, East Asian political economy, and American foreign relations. He most recently co-authored the book Inventing the Axis of Evil (2005).
Keun-Sik Jung is an associate professor of sociology at Seoul National University. His research interests include historical sociology, social movement theory, and sociology of the body. He has co-authored numerous books including Regional Economy and Social Policy of Japanese Mountain Villages (2001) and Direction and Development of Community Theory (2001)
Myoung-Kyu Park is a professor of sociology at Seoul National University. His research interests include social history, political sociology, ethnic sociology, and religious sociology. He has published numerous articles such as “Reunification of Korea and the Role of Non-Governmental Organizations” (2000) and “Transformations in the Collective Identity of Koreans in Central Asia” (1996).
Jae-Yong Kim is an associate professor of Korean literature at Wonkwang University. He is on the editorial board for Asia: Magazine of Asian Literature. His research interests include the history of the national literature movement, North Korean literature, and colonial period resistance and collaboration. His most recent book is Collaboration and Resistance (2004).
Sangkyung Lee is a professor of Korean literature at Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Her research interests include the literary history of the modern Korean novel, women writers such as Kang Kyŏng-ae and Na Hye-sŏk, and modern Korean feminist theory and criticism. She serves as an editor for the journal Feminism and Korean Literature. Her most recent book is Rethinking Modern Korean Feminist Literature (2002).
Hyun Ok Park is an assistant professor of sociology at York University. Her research interests include philosophy of history, the crisis of capitalism, and the epistemological issues associated with comparative studies with a particular focus on Korean transnational labor migration to and from northeast China and the Balkans of Asia. Her publications include the book Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (2005).
Sonia Ryang is an associate professor of anthropology and international studies and the C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Scholar of Korean Studies at the University of Iowa. She has published extensively about the Korean diaspora and is currently working on a book titled Gender, Self, Diaspora: Korean Women’s Autobiographic writings from the US and Japan. Her most recent publication is Love in Modern Japan—Its Estrangement from Self, Sex, and Society (2006).
Suzy Kim is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Oberlin College and will be joining the History Department of Boston College in the Fall of 2008. She received her Ph.D. in History at the University of Chicago. Her current focus of research is North Korean social history, particularly looking at mass mobilization in everyday village life from 1945 to 1950. Her research interests include social theory, revolution, and gender studies.