Jin-kyung Park is an assistant professor in Global Asia Studies and Women's Studies in the Department of Humanities. She received her B.A. at Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea, and her Ph.D. at the Institute of Communications Research (with a Graduate Minor in Gender and Women's Studies) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Her primary work is in the history, cultural studies, and feminist studies of (post)colonialism, science, biomedicine, technology, and the body in modern Korea.

Her research probes the genealogy as well as developments of modern biosciences and reproductive technologies in relation to the construction of gender and bodies in twentieth-century Korea.

Her current book project, entitled Corporeal Colonialism: Meanings of Women's Health and Disease in Colonial Korea, is on the cultural history of puinbyŏng (women's disease) in Korea under Japanese rule (1910-1945).

She offers courses in areas of gender, science, and culture across Asian societies. These courses include "Gendering Global Asia," "Gender and Social Institutions in Asia," "Gender in East Asian Science and Technology," and "The Japanese Empire: A Short History."

Credentials

B.A., M.A. (Sookmyung)
M.S., Ph.D. (Illinois)

Areas of Research

• The History
• Cultural Studies
• Feminist Studies of (Post)colonialism
• Science
• Biomedicine
• Technology and the Body in Modern Korea and East Asia