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Sonja M. Kim

SONJA M. KIM

Assistant Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies

Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Cultures (specializing in Korean history), University of California, Los Angeles, 2008

Office: LS G610
Phone: 777-3861
Email: skim@binghamton.edu

Areas of Study and Interest

Korean History
History of Medicine, Science, and Technology
Gender, Race, Nation, and Empire in East Asia

Recent Courses

Korean Civilization
Gender, Culture, and Korean Society
Korea in the Age of Empire, 1876-1945
Divided Korea, 1945 to the Present
Medicine and the Body in East Asia
Sick (Wo)Man of East Asia (AAAS Major Seminar)
History of Women in East Asia

Current Book Project

Contesting Birthing: Managing Population, Reproduction, and Medicine in Colonial Korea.

Recent Publications

“The Search for Health: Translating Wisaeng and Medicine During the Taehan Empire.” In Reform and Modernity in the Taehan Empire, eds. Kim Dong-no, John B. Duncan, and Kim Do-hyung, eds. Seoul: Jimoondang, 2006.

“‘Limiting Birth’: Birth Control in Colonial Korea.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Society: an International Journal 2, no. 3 (2008): 335-359.

Review of Hyaeweol Choi, Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways. University of California Press, 2009. Forthcoming in Journal of Asian Studies 69:4 (November 2010).

“In the Margins: US Historical Studies of Medicine in Modern Korea.” Forthcoming in Ŭisahak (Korean Journal of Medical History) 19:2 (December 2010).

Review of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity and Globalization, eds. Weinbaum, et al. Duke University Press, 2008. Forthcoming in Journal of World History 22:2 (June 2011).

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