WHA Annual Meeting: Korea 2026

A K M Khademul Haque, PhD is Professor of Islamic History and Culture at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he has taught for over twenty-five years. He specializes in the Islamic art and architecture of Bengal, with particular focus on mosque architecture, terracotta ornamentation, and indigenous architectural forms. His research engages critically with archaeological theory, material culture, and heritage preservation in South Asia. Dr. Haque has held numerous international fellowships, including the CAA–Getty International Travel Grant, the British Council Fellowship at the University of Birmingham, and the Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifa Fellowship in Doha. He has served as an Expert Delegate for the Government of Bangladesh at OIC workshops on cultural heritage. His publications include contributions to The Modernist World (Routledge), the Journal of Bengal Art, and an upcoming chapter in Twentieth Century Art in India (Thames & Hudson). He has attended the WHA conference in the past twice, having been awarded the International Scholar Travel Grant to attend the event at Bilbao, 2022.

Adam Knobler is Professor of the History of Religions at Ruhr Universität Bochum in Germany. He is the author of numerous articles and two monographic studies, focusing on the uses of medieval mythologies in the context of more modern political discourses, in Europe and globally. A member of the WHA for nearly 35 years, he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Aidan Forth (PhD, Stanford) is an Associate Professor of history at MacEwan University, Canada. His teaching and research explore European empires as venues of violence and warfare, humanitarian intervention and the rich cross-fertilization of cultures, identities and ideas that have shaped the modern world. His prize-winning first book Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 (University of California Press, 2017) reveals a global but hitherto unexplored network of refugee and concentration camps established by Britain in the late nineteenth century. Based on archival research on four different continents, Barbed-Wire Imperialism pioneered an interdisciplinary, comparative and transnational approach to trace a genealogy of the camp as an institution deeply embedded in the politics and culture of the Euro-American world. Globalizing these interests, Dr. Forth’s second book, Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement (University of Toronto Press, 2024), traces the history of camps and other enclosures from slave plantations, native reservations and penal colonies in the nineteenth century to Uyghur concentration camps in China, filtration camps in occupied Ukraine and refugee camps across the global south today. Along the way, Dr. Forth places the infamous camps of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union within larger global narratives while highlighting lesser-known episodes of encampment in colonial and postcolonial regimes.

Dr. Forth is now embarking on a new book-length project titled Empires in Motion: Transport, Technology, and Global Connectivity, 1815-1914, which examines the technologies and ideologies of migration and cross-cultural interaction as they developed globally in the long nineteenth century. Funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, along with funding from the Royal Historical Society, the Huntington Library (Los Angeles), and the Newberry Library (Chicago), Empires in Motion explores how technology both connected and disconnected travelers in an age of globalization.

Aisheedyuti Roy is a Second Year PhD student in the Department of History at UH Manoa, y in the transnational history of between India and Japan with reference to extraneous influences on the Indian Nationalist Movement. She had completed her Bachelors in History from Loreto College, University of Calcutta, graduating in 2019. After that, she went on to pursue a Masters in History from the University of Delhi, graduating in 2021. Before coming to UH Manoa, she briefly worked as a Social Studies teacher at a school in India. At present, her research interests include transnational history, Indian Nationalist Movement, and transnational Asian pop culture.

AKSADUL ALAM
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Professor of History, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Awarded a PhD in 2011 from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, specializing in the Historical Geography of Bengal up to 1300 AD. Authored and edited seven research books and published 40 scholarly articles in esteemed journals in Bangladesh and internationally. Shared his expertise and insights at numerous international conferences held in the USA, Belgium, Norway, Italy, Japan, Thailand, India, and Bangladesh, and received prestigious awards, including the Gold Medal Award 2017 from the Bangladesh University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Dean’s Award 2018 from the Arts Faculty, University of Dhaka. Dr. Aksadul Alam was awarded the ‘World Scholars Fund’ for the 34th History Conference of the World History Association (WHA) held in Louisville, USA, in 2025 and the 24th Conference in Savannah, Georgia, USA, in 2015.

Alek Barović is a Montenegrin journalist, civic activist, and PhD candidate in Genocide Studies at the University of Padova, Italy. His research focuses on the intersection of religion, post-genocidal societies, and national identity, with a particular emphasis on Bosniak, Armenian, and Kurdish communities. He is a Research Fellow at the Genocide Research Center at Soran University in Iraqi Kurdistan and a Visiting Assistant in Research at Yale University’s MacMillan Center Genocide Studies Program. Alek serves as Vice Executive Secretary of the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) and has published on topics including memory preservation, identity formation, transitional justice, and heritage destruction. He actively engages in public scholarship, bridging academic research and advocacy to address genocide denial and promote remembrance. His work reflects a commitment to fostering dialogue between scholars, policymakers, and affected communities to advance the field of genocide studies.

Alexandra Coakley is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on small local newspapers and international activism in the late 20th century. Her dissertation project examines the work of queer journalists during the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the ACT UP protest movement. Alexandra holds a BA in history from Occidental College. Before arriving at Berkeley, she worked as an editor.

Alice Wrigglesworth is an Assistant Professor of English and English Program Coordinator at George Mason University Korea. A specialist writing instructor with over twenty years of international teaching experience, her research focuses on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, including peer feedback, culture in the classroom, and L2 writing pedagogy. She is the PI of the Korean Memories Project, an interdisciplinary oral history initiative, and conducts research on AI‑assisted transcription, translation, and the ethical use of generative AI in education and multilingual historical research.

Alina Hassan holds a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Yonsei University and an M.A. in International Relations at the University of Tokyo. She is a multilingual scholar specializing in East Asian politics, with over a decade of living experience in Korea and Japan. Her interdisciplinary research explores the intersections of politics and history, with a focus on postcolonial theory, Korean colonial modernity, and the historical continuity of U.S. occupations in Korea and Japan. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Studies.

Aluko Abayomi John is a scholar of Political Science and Public Administration whose research engages with governance, political economy, migration, security, and knowledge production in Africa. He has served as a research assistant to leading academics and has presented at conferences on peace, conflict, and development. His recent works critically examine insurgency management, media and political violence, gender, and neocolonial economic structures. With several articles under review in Q1 and Q2 journals, he continues to contribute to interdisciplinary debates on African governance and global relations.

Amanda Zhao is an undergraduate junior majoring in International Politics at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. The winner of the 2022 World History Association Student Essay Contest, Amanda has been interested in history since childhood. She specializes in the “Nanking Decade,” including the Yangtze Delta battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Amar Kumar is an Indian researcher and academic writer specializing in international relations, global history, political economy, and geopolitics. His work focuses on the intersection of institutions, power, borders, and global connections, with particular attention to Asia, South Asia, and the Indo-Pacific region. He has a strong interest in themes such as post-globalization, sovereignty, counter-terrorism, maritime strategy, rare earth geopolitics, and comparative political systems.

Amar Kumar has contributed to a wide range of research papers, policy-oriented writings, and conference abstracts, often employing world history, global history, neoclassical realism, and institutional political economy as analytical frameworks. His research engages with contemporary global challenges including geopolitical fragmentation, authoritarianism, information warfare, and climate-linked resource competition.

He has prepared academic work for international conferences and scholarly forums, including themes aligned with the World History Association and International Economic Association, and regularly writes in both English and Hindi, making complex theoretical debates accessible to wider audiences.

His ongoing academic interests include Asia’s development experience, border regimes, global connectivity under sanctions, and the role of institutions in shaping long-term prosperity and stability.

Andrae Marak is a borderlands scholar and a professor of the history and politic science at Roosevelt University. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of four books and over 20 articles and chapters covering a wide range of borderlands issues with a special focus on indigenous peoples.

I am a Teaching Professor in the Departments of History and Political Science, and Director of the Religion, Culture and Society Program, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. My teaching and research surround the intersection of religion, law, and politics within world-historical and Middle East contexts; and I have an especial interest in enriching world history teaching with interdisciplinary, religion-related motifs. With Martin Bunton, I have recently published The End of the Ottoman Empire and the Forging of the Modern Middle East: A Short History with Documents (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett, 2025).

Anne Giblin Gedacht's research focuses on the social and cultural history of modern Japan from 1852-1953. Her interests include Japanese migration, empire/colonialism, expatriate identity, disaster studies, dark tourism, and memory studies. Her first monograph was titled Tohoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan. She has further published in multiple other venues including in the Journal of Social History.

April Wei-West is a second-year music doctoral student at SOAS, funded by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership. April’s doctoral project is an ethnographic study of how voice synthesis software is used in creative practice within the context of Japanese virtual idols and digital music cultures. April is interested in how embodied experiences of the digital shape formations of human subjectivity.

I am Ashton Hwang, a Korean American student currently attending Korea International School. I am deeply interested in the categories of social policy, demographic change, and identity formation in today’s rapidly changing societies. Growing up between different cultures has helped me find my curiosity regarding how institutions—such as family structures, labor markets, and welfare systems—quietly influence individual experiences of belonging and isolation. Intrigued by these differences, I created a website to encourage intergenerational dialogue among male populations to bring different cultural and societal perspectives about identity, belonging, and masculinity.

My research focuses on what I define as the “male loneliness epidemic” in South Korea, particularly among middle-aged and older men. Rather than approaching loneliness as an individual issue, I consider it a structural occurrence ingrained in legal reforms and labor market transformations. I am especially interested in how the decline of the traditional idea that men should be the main financial providers has changed men’s social connections and how they see themselves.

Through analyzing longitudinal data and qualitative research, I seek to understand how institutional change can create unintended social consequences, particularly among different genders. Overall, I hope to have conversations about aging, mental health, and gender-responsive policy in societies experiencing rapid economic and social restructuring.

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Bin Yang, professor in the Department of Chinese and History, at City University of Hong Kong, is the author of Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan—Second Century BCE—Twentieth Century CE (Columbia University Press, 2008), Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money: A Global History (Routledge, 2019), and Discovered but Forgotten: the Maldives in Chinese History, c. 1100—1620 (Columbia University Press, 2024), in addition to more than ten Chinese monographs. He has published widely in prestigious journals such as American Historical Review, the China Quarterly, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Modern Asian Studies, Journals of World History and Journal of Women’s History. And he is one of the founding members of the Asian Association of World Historians, which, since 2008, has worked to promote world history teaching, research, and graduate training in and for Asia.

Boram Yi is an Associate Professor of History and director of the history program at the University of Baltimore, a public university in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned her doctorate from the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on U.S.–East Asian relations and East Asian culture.
Her publications include “Prelude to Conflict, 1910–1948” in The Ashgate Research Companion to the Korean War, “‘An Alliance Forged in Blood’: The American Occupation of Korea, the Korean War, and the U.S.–South Korean Alliance,” published in the Journal of Strategic Studies, and “The Rise of Korean American Activism in Making Comfort Women Movement in the United States: Through the Activities of the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues, Inc.” in New Ways of Solidarity with Korean Comfort Women: Comfort Women and What Remains.
She is currently completing a book manuscript on the development of the first Status of Forces Agreement between the United States and South Korea.
Lisen Gottvall is a senior at the University of Baltimore majoring in psychology with a minor in history.

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Brayan Serratos García is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Kalamazoo College. He holds a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from Vanderbilt University, with graduate certificates in Latin American Studies and Asian Studies. His research explores the intellectual, visual, textual, and cartographic networks that connected Spanish America and Spanish Asia, centering the role of Indigenous and local knowledge producers across the Pacific world. Brayan’s work has appeared in journals such as Hispanic Review, with additional articles forthcoming in Hispanófila and the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos

Brenna Miller is the Associate Director of History for the 21st century and a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Roots of Contemporary Issues program at Washington State University. She received her PhD from Ohio State University in 2018 with a focus on Eastern European History, and has taught introductory, upper-division, and honors university courses in Modern European, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and World Histories. She is particularly interested in history teaching and pedagogy, as well as collaborative ways to support students and instructors alike.

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Buhm Soon Park is an Endowed Chair Professor at the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and serves as Director of the Center for Anthropocene Studies. His primary interest lies in the historical study of scientific concepts, disciplines, institutes, and policies from a global and comparative perspective. His current research focuses on the Great Acceleration in the Anthropocene, examining its regional and temporal unevenness as well as its common and overarching trends. He also explores the futures of biotechnology, while pursuing the fundamental question of trust in science across various cultural contexts.

Byung-Ho LEE is Associate Professor of Sociology at Ajou University, South Korea. He received his MA and PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan and was a Lecturer at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research spans the fields of sinology, comparative and historical sociology, and demography, with a focus on ethnicity, identity, and social policy.

Béla Boxman is an Honours research master student in Historical Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen and guest student Korean Studies at Leiden University, specialising in historical demography and migration history in early modern East-Asia. As research intern at Ajou University he is working on linking historical databases and demography of the Joseon dynasty. He has worked with historical data as student assistant for Antwerp University and the Historical Database of Suriname and the Caribbean (HDSC) at Radboud University.

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Prof. McCormack is a world historian who specializes in the history of the Indian Ocean World with a particular focus on botanical exchanges, indigenous plant knowledge, the professionalization of botany, and natural resource extraction during the colonial period. Her teaching explores the connection between imperialism and the contemporary inequalities between the Global North and the Global South especially when it comes to access and rights to natural resources. Prof. McCormack's pedagogy includes active learning and experiential learning by providing students the opportunity to experiment with historical artifacts and participate in group projects that focus on decentering and challenging Eurocentric narratives of world history.

Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe is a professor of History at Normandale Community College in Minnesota. Previously, she was the Interim Director of Academic Technology at Carleton College.

Chad B. Denton is Professor of History at Underwood International College, Yonsei University, South Korea. His research focuses on wartime resource mobilization, economic collaboration, and recycling in Nazi-occupied Europe and the Japanese empire. He is the co-editor, with Heike Weber, of a special issue of Business History on waste economies and World War II (2022). Recent publications include "Are Carcasses Political? German Veterinarians and the Modernization of Rendering Technology, 1864–1940" (Technology and Culture, 2023), "Korean Kuzuya, 'German-Style Control' and the Business of Waste in Wartime Japan, 1931–1945" (Business History, 2022), and "New Caledonian Nickel and the Origins of the Axis Alliance, 1931–1940" (The Journal of Pacific History, 2019). He is currently working on a book manuscript, Confiscation and Collaboration: Mobilizing Metal in Hitler's Empire.

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Dr. Chris Kostov is an Associate Professor of History and International Relations based in Madrid, Spain. He holds a PhD in Modern History and Canadian Studies from the University of Ottawa. His research explores nationalism, Cold War propaganda, post-communist transformations, and disinformation in Eastern Europe. He currently teaches at IE University and Schiller International University, focusing on global history, political communication, and the challenges of truth in the digital age.

Christian Jones is a doctoral candidate at Freie Universität Berlin working on the history of race, citizenship and decolonisation in colonial Malaya. He has been a visiting researcher at the National University of Singapore and the University of Malaya as well as a Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow at the National Library of Singapore. More broadly, he is interested in the history of race, migration, empires and nationalism. Additionally, Christian was a researcher on the project “Patchwork Cities: Urban Ethnic Clusters in the Global South During the Age of Steam” led by Prof. Michael Goebel.

Chris Chekuri is Associate Professor in History at San Francisco State University. His principal research interests are in the study of classical Telugu texts and precolonial political culture in peninsular India. He recently completely a documentary (Eternal Trees, Eternal Mountains) and is an editor at Maidaanam.com, a public humanities project focused on the Deccan region in India. He teaches Indian history and film at SF State.

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Cynthia Ross is an Associate Professor of History at East Texas A&M University near Dallas, Texas, Editor of World History Connected, and the Vice President of the World History Association. She earned her doctoral degree from Washington State University in 2011, with specializations in World History, War and Society, Environmental History, Food History, and American Empire. She has extensive experience teaching World History, U.S. History from a global perspective, historiography and theory, and courses in her specializations to diverse student populations including undergraduate, graduate, dual credit, first generation university students, and active adult learners. She holds numerous research awards including the Global Human Rights Fellowship and is a Global Fellow at her university. Her most recent publication “Dinner in the Trenches: Army Rations, Rolling Kitchens, and the Logistics of Food for American Doughboys” is in Mandy Link and Matthew Stith, Eds., Beyond No Man’s Land: New Perspectives of the First World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). Her two current monograph projects focus on the role of botanists in creating militarized landscapes in the Pacific and a history of Texas wine.

Dr. Evamoni Deka is currently working as a Guest Faculty at Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi. She is a trained social historian with a specialisation in the history of colonial Assam, focusing on the intersections of medicine, health, society, and colonial governance.
Dr. Deka completed her M.Phil. on “Emergence of Social Elites in Colonial Assam 1826-1900”, where she examined the formation of indigenous elite groups and their engagement with colonial institutions and socio-political change. She was awarded her Ph.D. from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, for her doctoral thesis titled “Medicine and Health in Colonial Assam, 1826–1947”. Her doctoral research offers a nuanced analysis of colonial medical practices, indigenous healing traditions, public health policies, gendered dimensions of healthcare, and the political economy of health under colonial rule.
Her academic work contributes to broader debates in social history, medical humanities, and South Asian history, particularly in understanding how colonial power, local society, and medical knowledge interacted in a frontier province like Assam. Dr. Deka’s research also foregrounds marginalised voices, including women and labouring communities, within the historical narrative of medicine and health.
Through her teaching and research, she continues to engage with themes of colonial modernity, social transformation, and historical methodologies, making her work relevant to scholars across history, gender studies, and interdisciplinary social sciences.

Dahee Kim is a researcher with the Understanding Korea Project at the Academy of Korean Studies. Since 2013, she has specialized in critically analyzing Korea-related narratives in North American textbooks and international educational materials. She earned her Ph.D. with a focus on a comparative study of policies and practices in textbook publication. As a researcher, she bridges the gap between academic research and public diplomacy. Collaborating with international publishers, curriculum developers, and educators, she promotes accurate and in-depth representations of Korean history and culture. These efforts reflect her dedication to fostering a deeper understanding of Korea in global classrooms.

Dain Lee is currently a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature and Culture at the University of Tokyo. She received her M.A. at the same institution and B.A. in Comparative Culture at Sophia University. Her research interests include global modern and contemporary art across Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, Fluxus, performing and media art, and women's art history.

Daniel Knorr is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Illinois State University.

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Dr. Daria Dyakonova is a research fellow at the the Gender Centre of the Geneva Graduate Institute. She teaches at the International Institute in Geneva. In 2024-2026 she was an MSCA postdoctoral research fellow jointly affiliated with Sapienza University in Rome and the University of Glasgow. Her current research focuses on the international Communist Women’s Movement during the interwar period, with particular attention to transnational activism.
Her doctoral dissertation, completed at the University of Montreal, analyzed the transnational history of the Young Communist League of Canada. She is currently adapting it into a monograph. Dr. Dyakonova's research expertise spans left-wing youth and women’s movements, the transnational history of communism, and Soviet history and gender history. Her recent publications include a co-edited documentary collection on the Communist Women’s Movement (Brill, 2022 / Haymarket, 2023) and a few scholarly contributions on Canadian communism’s international connections and the Communist Women’s Movement during the interwar years in edited volumes and the Journal of Women's History.

David Eaton is Professor of History at Grand Valley State University. He specializes in African and world history, and his book, World History through Case Studies, is now available in its second edition through Bloomsbury.

Denise Lynn is Professor and Chair of History, Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, Indiana. Her research focuses on women in the American Communist Party. Dr. Lynn is the Vice-President of the Historians of American Communism and the editor of its journal American Communist History. Dr. Lynn is the author of Where is Juliet Stuart Poyntz? Gender, Spycraft, and Anti-Stalinism in the Early Cold War and Women March for Peace: Black Radical Women’s Anti-Korean War Activism from the University of Massachusetts Press and Claudia Jones: Visions of a Socialist America from Polity Press.

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Diyang Zhou is an independent researcher from Bard College with a degree in Art History and Religious Studies. His research interests include ethnic and borderland studies, migration studies, and architectural history, with a particular focus on southwestern China. In addition, he has worked as a Collections Project Assistant at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in New York, where he conducted research on Chinese–English dictionaries in the twentieth century.

Dr. Donghyun Woo is historian of Cold War science and technology. His academic interests include nuclear history, environmental history, authoritarianism, and digital history. His works have appeared, or will appear, in scholarly venues including The Historical Journal, Environment and History, and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.

I am a doctorate and researcher in oral history with a passion for uncovering and preserving the stories of individuals and communities. My academic and research training, in conducting in-depth interviews and collecting personal narratives, has developed a unique ability to listen actively and empathetically, drawing out rich and nuanced stories from participants. My interdisciplinary research methodology brings together historic, political, cultural, and social perspectives to explore oral history. This consists of relations between individual and collective memories, oral interviews, and conducting surveys to collect primary data and answer research questions. Furthermore, the main areas of my research are wide theoretical expertise include post-modern war history, political & Cultural changes in India as well as in South Asia.

Dr Suman Joshi is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in the socio-economic, ecological, and cultural dimensions of indigenous healing practices in the Kumaun Himalaya.
She holds a PhD in socio-economic history and is trained in anthropology and Cultural history.
Her research interests include traditional medicine, Indigenous Practices, and Cultural Heritage approaches to global history.

Dr. Kailash Chand Gurjar
Associate Professor
Department of History and Archaeology
Central University of Haryana, India

Paper Published - 30
Book publish & Edited -07
Participated and presented papers at national and international conferences – 60

Dr. Marcy Tanter has been at educator at the secondary and post-secondary levels for more than 25 years. She has published and presented on Korean topics such as K-drama and popular culture, the Gwangju Uprising, and the "comfort women". She has received grants from the May 18 Foundation in Gwangju and from the Academy of Korean Studies to conduct research in Korea during the past few years. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Dongguk University in 2018.

I have a PhD in Medieval History from CHS, SSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. I am currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Majuli University of Culture, Assam India. My area of interest are religion, social and cultural history, gender, river history etc.

I am an Assistant professor at Sonapur College (Autonomous), Assam, India. I did my Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy and Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. My PhD is on the "Child Rights Protection in India: A Study on the Tea Plantations of Assam". I worked on "Tea plantation Workers of Assam: Issues of Redistribution, Recognition and Right" for my Phil. I have participated in a number of conferences and have written articles which are published in the prominent journals of India.

As of submitting this proposal I am expected to graduate from East Texas A&M University on December 13th, 2025 with a Bachelors in History with a minor in Psychology. During my time attending East Texas A&M University, I also worked as a substitute teacher for Royse City Independent School District.

Eliam Weinstock is a student in the History MA program at San Fransico State University. His area of study is comparative colonialism with a focus on West Africa and East Asia.

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Erez Manela is Professor of History at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Eric has been a secondary history educator since 1990, teaching in two large public school schools and now working with students around the world as an independent tutor.

Eric Boime is an Associate Professor of American History, with emphases Borderland History and the Environment. He has published a series of articles on the Colorado River Delta, as well as on the American Progressive Era Conservation Movement.

Eric D. de Roulet is an interdisciplinary Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia and was an English lecturer at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (DUFE) in northeastern China. Eric primarily researches 20th and 21st century trans-pacific migration, especially in the contexts of China and Taiwan. He has been a fellow with the National Bureau for Asian Research (2021-22) and a Liu Scholar with UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (2023).

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Speaker Bio (as requested): Erik Hermans is an intellectual historian of the global Middle Ages whose research bridges European, Byzantine, and Islamic intellectual traditions. He hails from the Netherlands, and was educated at the universities of Nijmegen, Amsterdam, Ghent, and Oxford before earning his Ph.D. in History and Classics from New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. He currently teaches in the Graduate Program of Classical Studies at Villanova University in the United States. For his research, he engages with primary sources in Latin, Greek, and Arabic to bring a global perspective to the history of premodern intellectual life. He is the editor of A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages (Arc Humanities Press, 2020) and of the special issue The Global Dissemination of Classical Learning (International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2023).

Eun Kyung Shim is an EdD candidate in the Department of History Education, College of Education, Seoul National University. Her research interests include historical agency in world history textbooks and history education in international curricula such as A-level and IB.

Eunjee Kang is a 9th-year Social Studies teacher at Bohannon Middle School. Since beginning her teaching journey, she has dedicated herself to creating a democratic and just classroom using innovative yet rigorous strategies. Eunjee actively engages in curriculum development projects with various organizations and is committed to integrating historical thinking while fostering inclusive learning experiences for her students.

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Fariza Tolesh is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work bridges economics, data science, politics, and education. She holds a PhD in Education from Nazarbayev University, an MA in Applied Data Analytics from Astana IT University, and an MA in Demography from Charles University in Prague. Fariza has led and collaborated on international research projects with the University of Sussex, Ulster University, producing work on language policy, migration, and labour market integration. She has extensive experience mentoring students in research methods, academic writing, and data analysis, and is committed to fostering critical thinking and global perspectives.
Her research interests include using big data to study social phenomena, exploring social media as a site for political expression and civic engagement, and conducting multidisciplinary research at the intersection of economics, politics, big data and education, with a focus on Central Asia and beyond.

Felix A. Jiménez Botta is Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University Korea, and earned his Ph.D. from Boston College in 2018. He is the author of Latin America Solidarity and the Politics of Human Rights in West Germany, 1973–1990 (2025). The manuscript examines the contradictory uses of human rights in the advocacy campaigns towards in Chile, Argentina, Nicaragua, and El Salvador in the Federal Republic of Germany. He has also published scholarly articles on the history of migration, Holocaust memory in postwar Germany, and British solidarity movements in the 1980s. He is currently conducting research for a global intellectual history of the concept of cosmopolitanism.

Prof.Dr. Ferruh Mutlu Binark
Hacettepe University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, Chair of Division of Informatics and Information Technologies, Türkiye
She graduated from the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema at Ankara University in 1989. She completed her postgraduate studies at the Institute of Social Sciences at Ankara University. She received her Ph.D. degree in "Communication" in 1999 and was awarded the title of Associate Professor in "Communication Sciences" in 2003. She conducted doctoral field research at the University of Tokyo with a Japanese Government scholarship, and postdoctoral research at Aarhus University and the University of Odense with scholarships from the Danish Government and TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences).
She currently continues her academic work as a faculty member at the Hacettepe University Faculty of Communication. She is a member of the Alternative Informatics Association. She also graduated from Ankara University's Faculty of Language, History, and Geography with a MS degree in Sinology (2007).
Between 2017 and 2021, she served as the Editor of Moment Journal. In 2018, she was a visiting researcher for six months at Busan University of Foreign Studies (Busan, South Korea), conducting research on the Korean government's creative industry and cultural policies. In 2020, she was elected as a member of the Communication Specialization Committee of the UNESCO Turkish National Commission (2020-2022).

Gary Chi-hung Luk is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Thomas Jefferson University.
Research focuses on the intersection of race and urban development in contemporary China.

GyeongHo Kim currently serves as a history teacher at Danggok Middle School in Seoul. He holds a master’s degree in History from the Department of Social Education, Seoul National University. His research interests focus on the development of historical thinking and the conceptual understanding of history among secondary school students, bridging academic theory with practical classroom experience.

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Hannah Kim studies U.S. and Korean relations in the early to mid-twentieth century. Her book, Ties that Bind: People and Perception in U.S. and Korean Transnational Relations, 1905-1965 (University of Nebraska Press, 2025) examines how a transnational community of people such as missionaries, mission board members, academics, journalists, expatriates, adoptive parents, and government officials helped shape American perceptions of Korea and Koreans. Her article, “Death in Philadelphia, 1958: The Murder of In-Ho Oh and the Politics of Cold War America," won the Urban History Association's Arnold Hirsch Award for the best article in a scholarly journal and was a finalist for the Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA's Robert W. Cherney Article Award.

Professor Kim is also the co-coordinator of the History/Social Studies Education program at UD. She along with other faculty study and suggest strategies to recruit and retain students from underrepresented groups in teacher education. Diversity in education remains a strong interest in Professor Kim's work in teacher preparation and with local K-12 schools.

Hanseok Ko is a visiting researcher at the Center for Educational Research, Seoul National University. His research focuses on the provincial governance of the Roman Empire, its interactions with provincials, and the content of world history education.

Heather Salter is Professor of History and Director of World History Programs at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Hideaki Suzuki is Associate Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology and a leading figure in East African and western Indian Ocean studies. His work spans the abolition of slavery, the trade ecology of the Indian Ocean World, and the cultural history of consumers in East Africa. He has authored numerous articles, monographs, and edited volumes that have shaped the field and advanced interdisciplinary research on Africa’s entanglements with global economic and cultural currents.

Hillel Eyal is a historian of early modern Spain and the Spanish Atlantic world, studying transatlantic migration from a macro-historical perspective. He has published articles in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History and the Journal of Latin American Studies, and is currently working on a book manuscript about the impact of domestic and transatlantic migration on Spanish and Spanish American societies on the eve of modernization (18th century).

Hiroaki Matsusaka is a historian and an associate professor at the College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Michigan. He was a visiting scholar at Yonsei University in Seoul and has taught at UCLA and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

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Nimesha Ekanayake is a historian specializing in World History, with a focus on transregional connectivity, maritime networks, and cultural exchange between China and Sri Lanka. She holds a Master’s degree in World History from Southwest University, China, and a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Rajarata, Sri Lanka, graduating with second-class upper division.

Her research examines the Ancient Maritime Silk Route, exploring diplomatic, commercial, and religious interactions across the Indian Ocean world. Nimesha has published several peer-reviewed articles in indexed journals, covering topics such as diaspora identities, cross-cultural encounters, and historical governance in Asia. She has also presented her work at international conferences, including RUICHSS 2024 at the University of Ruhuna, ICAHH 2024 at Bhiksu University, and TrinCo 2024 at the Indian Maritime University.

In addition to her research, Nimesha has professional experience as a dental surgeon in the Sri Lankan government healthcare system, bringing a multidisciplinary perspective to her historical inquiries. Her current projects examine patterns of pre-modern interconnection, the role of religion and diplomacy in shaping Asian maritime networks, and the historical foundations of transnational identity formation.

Her scholarship is characterized by a comparative, interdisciplinary approach that bridges historical texts, archaeological evidence, and cultural analysis to rethink global connectivity beyond modern notions of globalization. At the World History Association 2026 conference, she will present a paper titled “Connected Seas, Closed States: The Ancient Maritime Silk Route and Pre-Global Interdependence,” which explores how historical maritime networks sustained interregional exchange while preserving local autonomy.

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Hyangsoon Yi is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. Her research interests include: intersection of Buddhism, literature, and visual arts; Korean Buddhist nuns; and Buddhism and Western literature. She is the (co-)author or (co-)editor of the following monographs and special journal issues: Life of the Buddha (University of Toronto Press, 2025); Buddhism, Digital Technology and New Media in Korea: Ŭisang’s Ocean Seal Diagram (Routledge, 2024); Tong’asia piguni (Buddhist nuns in East Asia, Minsogwŏn, 2022); Korea Journal: Transnationality of Popular Culture in the Korean Wave 60.1 (2020); Piguni wa Han’guk munhak (Buddhist nuns and Korean literature, Yemunsowŏn, 2008), etc. She has also published over forty book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles.

A maritime historian, Dr. Ian Abbey has focused his career on piracy and privateering. Dr. Abbey is a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and has studied American maritime communities from the ancient world until the present day. He has lived and worked throughout the world. That includes teaching English in South Korea, working for Qatar's Texas A&M campus, and serving as an advisor to Prairie View A&M University's Model United Nations.

It is vital to understand daily life in past civilizations and time periods, which is why Dr. Abbey has improved his culinary skills and can cook dishes from the past. It started as a Medieval feast for a Game of Thrones viewing party, but those feasts grew more lavish every season as his historical cooking skills became more refined and diverse. It is not uncommon for his dinner guests or wife to dine on foods from the Medieval Islamic world, Ancient Rome, and the Firefly universe.

He is currently an assistant professor of history at Prairie View A&M and is turning his dissertation on privateers into a book.

Ikuko Sato is a research fellow at Japan Women’s University. She specializesPhoenician and Punic history, religion and culture research based on the perspectives and methodologies of historical studies. In recent years, she has explored with Sota Maruono open studies on the ancient Mediterranean world history based on the dialogue between historical studies and history education.

Ioana Beșleagă is a PhD student in History at the Institute of Southeast European Studies of the School of Advanced Studies of the Romanian Academy’ (SCOSAAR). Her research focuses on popular culture, the history of ideas, philanthropy, and 20th-century societies. She graduated from the Faculty of History at the University of Bucharest, with a Master’s degree in the History of Ideas, Mentalities, and Popular Culture. She also completed a semester in Political Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Throughout her studies, she participated in numerous international courses and projects, such as the Erasmus+ European program, which allowed her to deepen her knowledge in areas such as the ethics of narratives and food studies.

Dr. Iram Naseer Ahmad has been working as an Assistant Professor since 2021 and Head of History & Pakistani-Studies Department at Forman Christian College since 2024. Prior to that she has taught at LCWU and University of Education as well. She earned her PhD from the University of the Punjab and completed her research work of one semester from Arizona state university on Exchange Visiting Program. She is a Research Associate at Oxford Research House, and an Associate Fellow at Royal Historical Society (RHS). She has won several awards like ‘World Scholar Award’ ‘World History Commons’ honorarium, Volkswagen Foundation Award, Alliance for Learning in World History Award. Her first edit book volume, “Water Conflicts and Maritime Security Challenges in 21st Century Asia” has published in Italy in 2024. Besides, she presented her research work in numerous national and international conferences. She published several articles and chapters in books. Her specialization is on Pakistan China Relations, CPEC and BRI.

Instructor of History, Phillips Exeter Academy

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Jaehyeong Yu is a Ph.D. candidate in modern German and Japanese history at Vanderbilt University, specializing in the history of the senses, culture, and knowledge. His current research focuses on the history of noise in Germany and Japan around 1900 and traces how different frameworks for understanding noise took shape in both countries amid globalization at that time.

Jaehyung Kim is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a junior fellow at the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University. His dissertation investigates migration between North Korea and China from 1945 to 1964, focusing on the experiences of migrants and refugees crossing national borders. Before conducting fieldwork in Seoul, Jaehyung conducted research in Hong Kong (as an exchange student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong) and in Taipei (as a MOFA Taiwan Fellow at National Taiwan University).

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James Gerien-Chen is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Florida.

James Podgorski is a PhD candidate in history at Binghamton University, studying the intersections between South Korea and the U.S. in transforming the Korean environment during the Cold War. His dissertation examines Korean and American collaborative networks that aimed at transforming the Korean landscape during the Cold War, focusing on the Community Development projects, reforestation projects, and public-private institution building between Korea and the United States. His research intersects with the history of science and technology, the history of technology transfers, environmental history, and transnational history between East Asia and the United States.

Jaymin Kim is a historian of early modern Asia whose research focuses on borderlands, law, and sovereignty.

Jeewon Park is an assistant professor in the Department of History Education at Chongshin University, South Korea. Her research explores how historical inquiry and historical literacy inform history teaching, with a focus on supporting teachers in designing inquiry-based lessons grounded in thoughtful understandings of learners. She received her Ph.D. in History Education from Seoul National University, where she examined how preservice history teachers design inquiry-based lessons and how their conceptions of historical inquiry and learners shape instructional decision-making.

Her work centers on preservice teacher education and the pedagogical use of historical sources, curricular materials, and inquiry tasks. More broadly, she examines how developments in historical scholarship and evolving digital contexts influence the organization of historical knowledge in schools. In this session, she examines how developments in world history scholarship reshape curricular structures and influence the organization of historical knowledge in school settings.

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Jeongah Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in Korean History in the Department of History at Ajou University, specializing in the political and social history of late Joseon Korea. She received her master’s degree with a study on successful examination candidates in the Suwon region during the late 18th century. Currently, she is participating in the research project supported by the Korean government, “Formulation and Proliferation of Digital History at Ajou University.

Jieon Yoo is currently a graduate student of Cold War and Decolonization, completing her Ph.D. in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Building on her M.A. thesis, "Shadow Networks: Smuggling and the Making of Modern Korea," her research seeks to write a history from below, centering the lived experiences of ordinary people caught between the forces of decolonization and the global Cold War. She is particularly interested in how informal economies, material culture, and the senses served as crucial sites for navigating and negotiating imperial power in everyday life.

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Jihyun Shin (she/her) is an assistant professor of history in the Department of Humanities at MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She works on media, gender, and capitalism of modern South Korea.

Jing LIU earned her PhD at Syracuse University. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on Northeast Asian history, specifically Sino-Korean relations, trade, and knowledge production and dissemination in the 16th-17th centuries.

Jiwon Kwon is a Ph.D. student in Ethnomusicology at the University of Pennsylvania whose research explores the intersections of music, political power, and economic structures. Her work focuses on how state and commercial logics impact musicians’ agency and labor, with a specific emphasis on creative autonomy, decision-making processes, and the power dynamics involving major industry actors such as record labels, streaming platforms, and digital distribution services. By drawing on case studies in jazz, K-pop, and Western popular music, Jiwon investigates the ways in which socio-economic hierarchies shape the production, circulation, and consumption of music in transnational contexts.

Jiwon holds an MA in Music from Washington University in St. Louis and a BM in Piano Performance and Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music. Beyond her academic pursuits, Jiwon is an active pianist, composer, and arranger who regularly performs and records music.

Jiyoon Auo is a PhD student in Musicology at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently supported by the Mitsubishi Fellowship in Asian Studies, her research investigates the transnational soundscapes of Korea and Japan from the colonial to the postwar era, tracing how music circulated across empire, diaspora, and memory.

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John-Paul Wilson is an Adjunct Full Professor at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. He also teaches as an Adjunct Instructor at St. Leo University and Virginia Union University. He holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in Modern World History from St. John’s University, a master's degree in history from Xavier University, and a bachelor's degree in history from Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. His doctoral thesis is entitled “Political Bias in Historical Writing: A Case Study of Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution and its North American Historiography and Social Science.” He has served as a meeting organizer, a session chair, and a book reviewer. He has received a Doctoral Fellowship Award from St. John’s University and a Shirley J. Goeffrey Professional Development Travel Award from St. Leo University. He continues his research in modern Latin American history.

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Jonathan Reynolds is Regents Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University. He received his BA from the University of Tennessee with majors in Honors History, Anthropology, and Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations, and his PhD in African History at Boston University. At Livingstone College he received the Aggrey Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998. While teaching at NKU he has received the Outstanding Junior Faculty, the Excellence in Sustained Research, and the Milburn Outstanding Professor Awards. Beyond works on Islam in West Africa he (along with cool co author Dr. Erik Gilbert) has published Africa in World History: From Prehistory to the Present and Trading Tastes: Culture and Commodity to 1750. Reynolds is also the author of, Sovereignty and Struggle: Africa in the Era of the Cold War. From 2022-2024 he served as President of the World History Association

Jonathan Tang is a Visiting Professor of Asian Studies at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He earned his PhD in Twentieth-Century Chinese History from the department of History at UC Berkeley and is a specialist in China’s modern “Warlord Era,” the short period between the fall of the imperial system and the rise of the centralized party-state.

Joshua Dao-Wei Sim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Human Potential Translational Research Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He is a historian of China-Southeast Asia interactions, with a particular focus on heat health and religion. Some of his publications have appeared in Social Science and Medicine, Military Medicine, and Healthcare. Before becoming a historian, Joshua worked as an exercise scientist in the Singapore Armed Forces. Currently, he is also working on a project which profiles the heat experiences and practices of Singapore households through physiology, rapid ethnography, and oral histories.

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I am a graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My research focuses on racial politics and memory in southern Africa.

Jun Fujisawa is Associate Professor at Kobe University, where he teaches European and Russian history. He has written a book and articles on several aspects of the Soviet foreign economic policies in the CMEA including Soviet CMEA Policy and the Cold War: The Energy Resource Problem and Globalization [in Japanese] (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2019) and “Soviet Aid and the Mongolian Economy: The Global South in CMEA, 1962-1991,” Cold War History 25:3 (2025): 377-398. His current project is about the end of the Cold War and economic relations within the Eastern Bloc.

Jung Jong-won specializes in modern Korean intellectual history and conceptual history. He received his PhD in history from Hanyang University in 2022 and is currently a research assistant professor in the History Education Research Team at Hanyang University. In his doctoral dissertation, he examined how the Korean press understood and responded to international politics. In his subsequent research, he has explored the routes through which liberal internationalism entered East Asia, including Korea, and has analyzed cases of Korean thinkers who applied liberal internationalism to interpret international politics (e.g., Syngman Rhee).

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Junghyun Nam is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University. Her research focuses on political sociology, social movements, emotion, and spatial structure.

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• “How can we ask questions from a gender perspective in Modern and Contemporary History?
-Creating a list of questions from a gender perspective in Modern and Contemporary History“, Masaki Mukai ed.,“Creating a comprehensive historical (us) story – here and now and beyond”, Minerva Shobo, 2026, (Coming soon)[Japanese]
•"How to Overcome Japanese High School Students' Prejudices Against Islam: Challenges in General History and World History Studies," in Nobuyuki Onishi and Yuki Sato (eds.),Rereading Japanese History through Religion, Yamakawa Publishing, 2025, pp. 190-206.[Japanese]
“Prospects for the future of high school education in Japan based on research on modern German history - Prescriptions for overcoming hate speech and historical revisionism”, “Geschichte”, 15, pp.61-68, 2022. [Japanese]
• “Column: Learning world history through dialogue”, Koji Ogawa ed., “What is world history”　(Iwanami Lecture World History 1), Iwanami Shoten, pp.203-204, 2021. [Japanese]
• “World history class that incorporates the perspective of SDGs Goal 5 “Gender Equality” ”,
“Journal of Social Science Education”, 739, pp.90-93.2020. [Japanese]
• “Report: How to incorporate a gender perspective? ―From the field of high school history education―”, “Journal of gender history”, 14, pp.69-85, 2018. [Japanese]

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With a research and teaching background in twentieth-century African History, including an emphasis on colonial to post-colonial transitions, Kenneth R. Curtis is an Emeritus Professor of History at California State University Long Beach. He has taught survey courses, more specialized courses on twentieth century African and World History, and graduate seminars focused on World History scholarship and historiography. He has extensive experience working with high school teachers, including working with the College Board as the first Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History. His publications include multiple textbooks, including Voyages in World History (fourth edition, with Valerie Hansen, Yale University) with editions for both university and Advanced Placement students, as well as World History: Voyages of Exploration, for high school classrooms which follow standards set by state boards of education.

Kenneth Swope is Professor of Strategy & Policy at the United States Naval War College as well as Professor of History and Senior Fellow of the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of several books and articles on East Asian military history, international relations and grand strategy and is currently writing a book on the Three Feudatories Rebellion.

Kizaki Braddick graduated from the Australian National University in Asia-Pacific Studies (2015). This was followed by an MA in Japanese Studies from Leiden University (2018). He recently completed a DPhil in Oriental Studies at Oxford University (2025) with a dissertation on ‘The Grand Strategy of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1582-1598: Peace Through Hegemony’.

Sangwoo HAN received his Ph.D. in East Asian Studies (Chosŏn History) from Sungkyunkwan University. He served as a postdoctoral researcher with the university’s Chosŏn Household Register Digitization Project, as well as on the ERC project at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of History at Ajou University. His research explores Korean society, population, and family within the broader East Asian context.

Byung-Ho LEE is Associate Professor of Sociology at Ajou University, South Korea. He received his MA and PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan and was a Lecturer at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research spans the fields of sinology, comparative and historical sociology, and demography, with a focus on ethnicity, identity, and social policy.

Khemara Chhorn is a Cambodian postgraduate student at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester. Building on her professional experience in international relations and cultural diplomacy, her research investigates Qatar’s cultural diplomacy with key Asian countries—China, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia—sponsored by Qatar Museums. Through this work, she seeks to deepen understanding of how cultural exchange strengthens international partnerships and national soft power strategies.

Alongside her research, Khemara serves at Qatar Museums in the Cultural Diplomacy Department under the Years of Culture programme, where she manages and advances cultural relations between Qatar and Asian nations. She holds a bachelor's degree in international politics from Georgetown University in Qatar and a master's degree in public policy from Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

Her academic and professional pursuits are united by a commitment to fostering cross-cultural understanding, diplomacy, and international collaboration.

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Kizaki Braddick graduated from the Australian National University in Asia-Pacific Studies (2015). This was followed by an MA in Japanese Studies from Leiden University (2018). He recently completed a DPhil in Oriental Studies at Oxford University (2025) with a dissertation on ‘The Grand Strategy of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1582-1598: Peace Through Hegemony’.

Kumar Roshan Dusad is a legal scholar, specialized in Criminal law, passionate about Asian perspective on global history, draws on interdisciplinary approaches to analyze post-globalization dynamics. Roshan has previously contributed original research on themes on justice, equity and cultural exchange. He has also presented paper on National and International Seminars on women empowerment and Human Rights.
Roshan also holds degrees on Bachelors in English, Bachelors in Law and LLM in Criminal and cyber law from Delhi University, India. Kumar Roshan is in his 3rd year of PhD degree from University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya, India. Roshan has also qualified National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professor, conducted by Government of India. Roshan currently resides in Assam, India.

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Lei LIN is Assistant Professor in History in the Division of Arts and Humanities at Duke Kunshan University.

Lin Su Winton is the Director of the Quantitative Resource Center and Lecturer in Biology at Carleton College.

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Loughlin Sweeney, FRHistS, is a Lecturer in History at Yonsei University, South Korea. His research covers the history of professionalisation, nationality, and warfare in the 19th-20th century British Empire, and the history of international law. He is the author of Irish Military Elites, Nation and Empire 1870-1925 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and the editor of Dreams of Modernity: China, the British Empire, and the Emergence of International Norms (Routledge, forthcoming). Recent publications include ‘A Return to Great Power Geopolitics? The Historical Context of Great Power Competition in Asia’ (Asian Affairs, 2024), and ‘Western Opium Consumption in China: Informal Empire, Medicine, and Modernity, 1840-1930’ (Social History of Medicine, 2023).

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Maarten Jonker is a PhD student in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, with expertise on the trans-imperial nature of European colonialism in twentieth century Asia. He completed his undergraduate degree in history at St Peter’s College Oxford and holds an MA and MSc in International and World History from Columbia University and the LSE, respectively.

Maarten’s PhD research focuses on the trans-imperial networks that extended Dutch imperial influence across twentieth century Asia. His research investigates corporate, consular, and diasporic networks across Asian port cities beyond the Netherlands East Indies. Maarten aims to demonstrate how such trans-imperial networks and agents laid the foundation for continued European mobility and colonial exploitation after political decolonization.

Malkhaz Saldadze is an assistant professor at George Mason University Korea. He earned his Ph.D. from George Mason University’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. He also holds an MA in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. His Ph.D. research examines how history is narrated and how conflicts transform in Georgia, engaging social, cultural, and political perspectives on these issues. As part of civil society and various research institutions in Georgia, he worked on peace and conflict issues through programs and projects, including cross-border South Caucasus initiatives that shaped public discourse on conflict transformation, gender equality, civic engagement, and European integration. Malkhaz Saldadze also worked to empower CSOs in Georgia, developing skills and expertise in organizational culture and conflict management.

Man Joong Kim is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Binghamton University, New York. His primary research investigates the genealogy of transpacific architectural networks and urbanism between South Korea and the United States. He has presented extensively on topics exploring the social responsibilities of architects, the democratization of architectural practice, and how Cold War transpacific exchanges shaped South Korean urbanization and national identity.

Marc Jason Gilbert received a Ph.D in History from UCLA and for many years thereafter was Professor of History and co-Director of programs in South and Southeast Asia in the University System of Georgia, and the holder of the NEH-supported Endowed Chair in World History (2006-2019). Since then he has continued to teach courses at that university related to Vietnam, Indochina, and Southeast Asian history. His publications in those fields include Why the North Won the Vietnam War, The Tet Offensive, The Vietnam War on Campus: Oher Voices, More Distant Drums, “The Global Dimensions of a Brushfire War,” and most recently, “The View from the Hill: Hawaii’s Congressional Delegation and the Struggle for Peace in Vietnam and Equity at Home, 1964-1975,” in Fredrik Logevall and Brian Cuddy (eds), The Vietnam War and the Pacific World (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2022). He has long been associated with the University for the Social Sciences and Humanities, which has extended an invitation to attend the coming conference on Vietnam, as he will be there for return visit from last year working with that university’s faculty of Archival and Management Studies. Website: https://www.hpu.edu/faculty/cla/marc-gilbert.html with email contact.

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Mario Maritan gained a PhD in modern history from University College London, where he taught modern European and Middle Eastern history, having previously studied at Durham and Cambridge. He is currently a research fellow at the Institute of International and Area Studies of Sogang University and the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture of Hanyang University in Seoul.
His "The Fight for a Supranational World: Trieste, the Adriatic and the Habsburgs, 1848-1867" is forthcoming with Purdue University Press and his critique of "liberal nationalism" appears in an article forthcoming with The European Legacy.

Marziye Mansoury is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Alzahra University, specializing in the social and economic history of contemporary Iran. Her doctoral research, "Management of the Economic Crisis in Iran Between 1941-1961," examines economic policymaking during the Allied occupation and early Pahlavi era, employing archival documents, oral histories, and economic analysis to explore state-society relations amid global disruptions.
Her scholarly work focuses on global commodity crises, wartime economies, and the socio-economic impacts of foreign intervention in 20th-century Iran. She has published peer-reviewed articles in prominent journals such as the Journal of Historical Researches and Socio-Economic History Studies, analyzing state monopoly policies and their role in exacerbating shortages and fostering rent-seeking during World War II.
In addition to her research, Mansoury serves as Managing Editor of the Peer-Reviewed Academic Journal of Economic History Studies and Executive Director of the International Relations Committee at the Iranian History Association, where she fosters global academic collaborations. Her work bridges Iranian economic history with broader global patterns, offering insights into crisis management in neutral nations during conflicts.

Masahiro Ikeda is an economic historian specializing in the political economy of rice trade and export in colonial Southeast Asia. He received his M.A., and Ph.D. in Economics from Kobe University, Japan. His research examines how environmental constraints, labor mobility, rice merchants, and colonial policies shaped the agricultural economy in the Mekong Delta during the first half of the 20th century.

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Dr. Matthew Bowser is an Assistant Professor of Modern World History at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is the author of Containing Decolonisation: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma, which was published with Manchester University Press in September 2025. His research focuses on decolonization in Southeast Asia, examining the intersections of imperialism, race, nationalism, and capitalism in the process of achieving independence from colonial rule. His work has been published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, the Journal of Asian Studies, and the Journal of Modern Asian Studies.

Matthew Evenden is a Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. A specialist in the history of rivers, most of Evenden's work has focused on modern Canada and North America. His current project, by contrast, follows the global history of ballast use in the late Age of Sail.

Maximilian Georg is a historian of archaeology and of geography, both of which he studies from a global history perspective. From 2013 to 2022, he was a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Leipzig, Germany. Since 2024, he has been a postdoctoral Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Culture Studies (IKW), Vienna, Austria.

Michael Kosei Delphia is a first year master's student at the Yenching Academy of Peking University, studying China Studies with a focus on History and Archaeology. After earning his B.A. in Asian Studies, Economics, and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michael traveled to Beijing, China for continued studies in history. At Peking University, Michael is building on his previous research on Manchukuo and Japanese colonialism in 1930s Northeast China and intends to investigate the role of mass political organizations and ethnic identities, particularly pertaining to resident Koreans, within Manchukuo society.

Michael Fuhrman is a World History and Humanities teacher whose work is rooted in relational, discussion-based learning and global inquiry. He has taught across a range of secondary history and humanities courses, designing classroom experiences that help students understand the world through narrative, culture, and lived experience. His teaching draws on training from Harvard Divinity School, where he focused on religion, migration, and ethical engagement across difference. Fuhrman emphasizes student voice, community partnership, and creative approaches to historical thinking, and he develops learning environments where storytelling, curiosity, and care guide students’ understanding of the global past.

Michael North (1954), who started his career as assistant curator at the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, has been Professor and Chair of Modern History at the University of Greifswald. He has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Szczecin and of Tartu, was director of the Graduate Program “Contact Area Mare Balticum” from 2000 to 2009, director of the International Graduate Program “Baltic Borderlands” from 2009 to 2019, and is Speaker (i.e., director) of Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO). His many international publications include: A World History of the Seas. From Harbour to Horizon (London/New York 2021); Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America (ed. together with John W.I. Lee, Lincoln 2016); The Baltic: A History (Cambridge MA 2015); Meditating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia (ed. together with Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann); The Expansion of Europe, 1250‐1500 (Manchester 2012); Material Delight and the Joy of Living: Cultural Consumption in Germany in the Age of Enlightenment (Aldershot 2008) and Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age (New Haven/London 1997).

Michael Ray Taylor, AFHEA is an Instructor of History in the Division of Arts and Sciences at LSU Eunice. He teaches courses in Western Civilisation and European History, with a focus on helping students understand how political ideas, religious movements, and cultural conflicts shaped the modern Atlantic world.

Taylor is an early Americanist whose research centres on eighteenth‑century British and American intellectual history, particularly the political and ideological legacy of Jacobitism. His work examines how defeated political movements continued to shape ideas of liberty, empire, and colonial identity in Britain and the American colonies. He recently submitted his doctoral dissertation at the University of Aberdeen, entitled "Liberty and the Liberalism of Defeat: The Liberal Jacobite Movement and its Influence on the American Colonies".

His research has been supported by seventeen grants and awards, including funding from the Templeton Foundation and Becas Santander. He has presented fifteen academic papers at conferences and institutions across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan. His scholarship appears in leading journals in British and imperial history, with publications in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, The Scottish Historical Review, Eighteenth Century Scotland, and Scottish Church History.

Taylor holds a BA from Boyce College and an MDiv from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he specialised in church history. He is an Associate Fellow of Advance HE and a Beattie Scholar at the University of Aberdeen. In addition to his research and teaching, he serves as Chair of the LSUE AI Subcommittee and as Director of the Baptist Collegiate Ministry, where he works at the intersection of pedagogy, ethics, and emerging technologies.

Michele Louro is Associate Professor at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts.

Michelle Morgan is an associate professor of history at Missouri State University. She completed her PhD in American History with a minor in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research explores the roles schools have played in competing definitions of “American” in newly acquired territories, emphasizing the participation of teachers as cultural agents and the ways in which gender and identity shape teachers’ roles in classrooms and communities. Her work has appeared in Western Historical Quarterly and the History of Education Quarterly. She is currently working on a manuscript analyzing the experiences of urban teachers and educational reform in the American Pacific between 1890 and 1930.

Miki Sugiura is Professor of Global Economic History at Hosei University, Japan. Her research focuses on the history of global trade, with particular attention to export promotion for consumer goods in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries across East Asia, north-western Europe, and South and East Africa. She has published widely on the global circulation of textiles, crafts, and beverages. Her peer-reviewed articles—both single- and co-authored—have appeared in leading international journals such as Business History, Transport History, and Textile History. She has also contributed to edited volumes published by Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and Palgrave Macmillan.

As regards to the other speakers of the panel, first, Robert Fletcher is Professor of History and Kinder Professor of British History at University of Missouri. A historian of the global dimensions of the British Empire, he has published extensively, including more than seven peer-reviewed articles since 2018, several monographs, and multiple co-edited essay collections. His scholarship has been recognised with major research funding, most notably a Leadership Fellowship from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (2015–19). In 2022, he received the University of Missouri’s Derrick-Patman Award for Faculty Excellence.

Second, Hideaki Suzuki is Associate Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology and a leading figure in East African and western Indian Ocean studies. His work spans the abolition of slavery, the trade ecology of the Indian Ocean World, and the cultural history of consumers in East Africa. He has authored numerous articles, monographs, and edited volumes that have shaped the field and advanced interdisciplinary research on Africa’s entanglements with global economic and cultural currents.

Mimi Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of History Education, College of Education at Seoul National University. Her research focuses on teachers’ use of primary sources and inquiry-based instruction. Drawing on nationwide teacher surveys, in-depth interviews, and lesson log analyses, she has shown that teachers vary widely in how they conceptualize primary sources, and that these beliefs strongly influence classroom practice. Her more recent projects investigate teacher factors—such as historical thinking orientations, views on the purpose of school history, and teaching experience—that affect the use of activities, sources, and inquiry. Building on these findings, she is currently leading the development of educative curriculum materials designed to support teachers’ knowledge growth and help them bridge the gap between disciplinary history and school history in the era of digital transformation.

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Minju Kwon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Chapman University, USA. She specializes in international institutions and gender studies, with a regional focus on Asia. After receiving her Ph.D. in Political Science with a minor in Gender Studies from the University of Notre Dame, she served as a postdoctoral fellow of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at Notre Dame.

Jeeye Song is an Invited Professor in Global Korean Studies at Korea University. Her research centers on historical International Relations, with a particular focus on the East Asian international order and the experiences of Korea and Vietnam. She was previously a 2024 Visiting Fellow at the Seoul National University Asia Center and a 2021-2022 Rothman Doctoral Fellow at the University of Florida's Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.

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Minwoo Kong (he/him/his) is a Ph.D. student in the History Department at Columbia, whose research focuses on the history of political economy, labor, business, and economic discourse in the 20th century United States. He is primarily interested in reinterpreting the transformation of American capitalism from the 1970s to the 1990s, from global and transnational perspectives. In particular, his research examines the way labor, business, and policymakers sought to recast the U.S. industrial order in its relationship with the emerging realities of global interdependence and the "post-Fordist" alternatives of Japan and FRG. He is also interested in the American state, Cold War, imperialism and World-systems, developmental state, and computerization.

Prior to pursuing doctoral studies at Columbia, Minwoo completed a MA in Western History and a BA in Western History (double major in sociology) at Seoul National University in South Korea. His Master's thesis was a reinterpretation of the financialization of U.S. pension funds in the early 1970s, viewing it as a part of an industrial program that traded economic security for the securities market. His writing has been published in the Korean Journal of Western History, Gwanak Historical Studies, and Korean Journal of Local History and Culture. Besides, he is a cinephile, critic, hiker, and singer.

Moe Taylor (he/his) has a PhD in history from the University of British Columbia and is an Associate of the Korea Policy Institute.

Monica Ketchum-Cardenas is Professor of History and Sociology at Arizona Western College, and a Lecturer in History and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at San Diego State University-Imperial Valley. She holds degrees in history, with an emphasis in Latin American and world histories; sociology; global affairs; and college teaching and learning. Her work focuses on teaching innovation and curriculum development in history and sociology, and promoting the adoption of OER. Monica was awarded a Fulbright-Hays GPA scholarship to Central Asia in 2018, was an Engaging Eurasia Teaching Fellow at Harvard University in 2020-21 & 2025-26 and a CSEEES Global Fellow at The Ohio State University in 2023-24 and 2024-25. She has served as a delegate for Soroptimist International to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women annual meeting since 2023, and currently serves as president for the Arizona Council for History Education. When not in the classroom, she is creating art, travelling, and working in the community to address issues related to access to education, human trafficking, and gender-based violence.

Muhammed Riyasudheen O. K. is an emerging historian from Kerala, currently pursuing a BA (Honours) in History at Sree Narayana Guru Open University. His research focuses on historical ecology, domestic material culture, and the intersections of culture and environment in everyday life. He has presented papers at NIT Calicut, Calicut University, and the Hidaya Palazhi Research Seminar. Riyasudheen is also the founder of History Peers, a digital platform connecting history students and researchers worldwide. Alongside his academic work, he is active in community leadership, serving as the Student President at Hidaya Palazhi and participating in the National Service Scheme. He works with Malayalam, English, and Arabic sources and aims to contribute innovative research to global historical scholarship.

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I am an oral historian and a head of the Sociology Department of the Institute of Philosophy, the Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS). I obtained a BA at the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics, a MA in Population Studies at Peking University, and a PhD in Sociology at University of Essex.
Prior to MAS, I worked as an associate professor for the Mongolian National University. Since 1990s I had actively enrolled in teacher trainings, and participated in the social science curriculum development. I was a fellow at several universities including Cambridge, Harvard and UCLA. My research and articles were published in Germany, Philippines, Russia, Japan, USA and Taiwan. The latest publications are “Korean School in Mongolia: 1952-1959” (2024) and “Social Research Methodology” (second edition, 2025) .

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Olaolu Peter Oluwasanmi is an advanced PhD student in the Department of Public Management, Law, and Economics at Durban University of Technology, South Africa. His doctoral research focuses on transborder migration and the challenge of identity crisis among Nigerian migrants. His research interests lie in international migration and diaspora studies, particularly in relation to state agency, belonging, and citizenship. His recent article, “Diaspora Vote: Relationship and Power of the Legislature in Political Leadership in Nigeria,” was published in African Identities, a Taylor & Francis journal. He actively participates in scholarly discourse and has presented his work at both local and international conferences. Oluwasanmi organized a panel at the Lagos Studies Association (LSA) 2025 Conference, titled “Navigating Identities: Migration, Belonging, and Identity Formation.” In recognition of his academic contributions, he was awarded the LSA Travel Grant and the UKRI Publication Grant in 2024. Additionally, he received a travel grant to participate in the CERTIZENS West Africa Regional Workshop in Accra, Ghana.

Olawale B. SALAMI is a Reader and teaches History and Diplomacy in the Department of History and Diplomatic Studies of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria. Untill, July 31, 2025, he was the Head of Department of History and Diplomatic Studies. He has published widely in reputable academic journals. He is married with kids.

Olivia Bloechl is Professor in Musicology at the University of Pittsburgh, where her research focuses on the history of music and sound in early French and British Atlantic empires, French Baroque opera, and global music history. The author of Native American Song at the Frontiers of Early Modern Music (Cambridge, 2008) and Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France (Chicago, 2017), she is also a co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Global Music History. Today’s paper is from that handbook and her book-in-progress, Song and Music in the Seven Years’ War for Northeastern Native America.

History Professor Towson University, Towson, MD. USA

My name is Codi Shoemaker. I have an MA in Art History with a focus on Korean and East Asian art, along with undergraduate degrees in both Illustration & Graphic Design (BFA) and Art History (BA). My research focuses on pre-historic and pre-Silla Korea using interdisciplinary approaches.
Outside of academics, I often spend time with my cats, draw, go out for trivia, or read. I enjoy matcha lattes, learning about weird history, and have a soft spot for cute things.

Dr. Paroma Ghose is a sociocultural historian. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the ‘Confronting Decline’ (CONDE) Project at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ), Munich, researching histories of deindustrialization through popular music in France and Germany. Her doctoral thesis looked at the notion of belonging in France (1981-2012) through the lyrics of French Rap songs. She is currently writing a book on K-Pop and postcolonialism [Palgrave MacMillan], which she began as a National Research Foundation of Korea Fellow at Yonsei University in 2022.

Patrick Vierthaler (he/his) holds a PhD in contemporary history from Kyoto University. He is currently employed as assistant professor at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research / the Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University. His main research fields are South Korean contemporary history and Cold War history.

Paul Corthorn is Professor of Modern British History at Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom). His research and teaching concerns twentieth-century British history, especially its political and international dimensions. He is the Ketelby Fellow in Late Modern History at the University of St Andrews in 2025-26.

Paul Corthorn has worked extensively on the politics of the Left and on various aspects of the Cold War in Britain. His first book, In the Shadow of the Dictators: The British Left in the 1930s, was published in 2006. He has been joint editor of the Labour History Review since 2012.

Paul Corthorn’s book about Enoch Powell, the Conservative and Ulster Unionist MP, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019 and appeared in paperback in 2022. He is Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project on ‘Conservatism and Unionism in the UK, 1968-1997,’ funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and running from 2023 to 2026.

Paul Corthorn has just finished writing a book entitled Thatcher’s Cold War: The Battle of Ideas, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2026. He was previously Co-Investigator (CI) of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘The Politics of Consumer Credit in the UK, 1938-1992,’ which resulted in a co-authored monograph published by Oxford University Press in 2018.

Paul Corthorn has published major articles in generalist History journals including English Historical Review, European History Quarterly, Journal of British Studies and Historical Journal.

Paul Corthorn has served on the Steering Committee of History UK, the body representing all History departments, and was co-opted to the Royal Historical Society Education Policy Committee. He is a member of the sub-panel for History in the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029.

Peng Hai is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He studies three emergent fields: the modern history of the Chinese ethnic borderlands, Islam in China, and the cultural critique of ethnic domination in post-colonial states.

Professor Kwon is the author of Cornerstone of the Nation: The Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee (Harvard University Asia Center, 2024), which examines the origins and development of South Korea’s defense industry during Park Chung Hee’s rule and its impact on the nation’s socio-economic and military transformation. As a Fulbright US Scholar in South Korea for the 2024-2025 academic year, he is currently working on his second book, Column of the Nation: The Yulgok Operation and South Korea’s Global Rise, which investigates the Yulgok Operation and its multifaceted role in South Korea’s national development trajectory.

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Pranav Vats completed his Master's degree in History from the University of Delhi, specializing in modern Indian history with a strong research interest in colonial discourse and postcolonial theory. His paper was selected for presentation at the World History Association Conference in Utah, 2020. His current research examines the Revolt of 1857 through an expository analysis of Evelyn Wood's "The Revolt in Hindustan, 1857-59." By locating the rhetorical and representational tropes embedded in Wood's account, his work aims to recover-and restore to the centre of scholarly discussion-the impact that the structural subjugation of peasants, workers and sepoys by the colonial state had on the Revolt, countering colonial discourse that portrays these groups as religious and other-worldly "other" devoid of agency.

Beyond his work on 1857, Pranav is interested in investigating how the colonial archives and narratives construct the "native" as an object of knowledge and governance, and how these constructions continue to shape contemporary understandings of Indian history.

Outside of his academic pursuits, Pranav has a passion for exploring the world, delving into civilizational history, and experiencing diverse cultures and cuisines.

Qi Wang is an Associate Professor of film studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), a study of post-socialism and independent films made between 1990 and 2010 in China. She has also published articles in positions: asia critique, Asian Cinema, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, MCLC (Modern Chinese Culture and Literature) Resource Center and so on. Currently she is writing a new monograph on East Asian cinema; this is a comparative study of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese-language cinemas focusing on their varied approaches to the dynamic relationship between film form/aesthetics and topics of history, society, culture, and modernity including war crimes and responsibility, shamanism and urbanization, neoliberalism and youth, ethnic minorities and diaspora.

Work Experience
Aug 2013 – Dec 2019: Capital Normal University, School of History, Lecturer
Jan 2020 – Present: Capital Normal University, School of History, Associate Professor

Education Background
Sep 2007 – Jul 2013: Peking University, Department of History, World History, Ph.D. in History
Sep 2003 – Jul 2007: Capital Normal University, World History Pilot Program, Department of History, B.A. in History
Foreign Languages School, Department of English Language and Literature, Minor, B.A. in Literature

Monograph
Research on Agricultural Development and Environmental Change in Colonial Australia (1788–1901), Social Sciences Academic Press (China), 2024.

Selected Academic Papers
2023, Issue 12, Contemporary World: "The Contemporary Significance and Practical Path of Promoting the Building of a Community of Life for Humanity and Nature"
2023, Issue 5, World History: "Weather Cycles Theory and the Emergence of Modern Meteorology in Australia (1830–1900)"
2020, Issue 4, Journal of the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: "Transoceanic Dissemination of Species and Interaction of Ecological Experiences: The Early Spread of Eucalyptus in China (1890–1920)"
2019, Issue 5, Journal of Capital Normal University (Social Sciences Edition): "Humans and Nature in Australian Historical Writing: Focusing on Colonial Agriculture"
2019, Issue 3, Historiography Quarterly: "The Formation and Evolution of the Irrigation Knowledge Exchange Network in the Mid-to-Late 19th Century"

Research Grants
National Social Science Fund Youth Project: "Research on Agricultural Development and Environmental Change in Colonial Australia (1788–1901)" – Concluded (Excellent Rating)
Beijing Municipal Education Commission Social Science Planning General Project: "Transoceanic Dissemination of Species and Interaction of Ecological Experiences" (Project No.: 202110028013)

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Rebecca Ard Boone is the author of four books, War, Domination, and the Monarchy of France, Mercurino di Gattinara and the Creation of the Spanish Empire, Real Lives in the Sixteenth Century, and Real Lives in the Eighteenth Century. She earned her Ph.D. in early-modern European history from Rutgers University in 2000 and currently serves as Professor of History and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Lamar University in Texas.

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Robert Fletcher works in the fields of imperial and global history and focuses on histories of British imperialism, arid environments, nomadic peoples, and maritime exchange. He is the author of British Imperialism and ‘the Tribal Question’: Desert Administration and Nomadic Societies in the Middle East, 1919-1936 (Oxford, 2015) and The Ghost of Namamugi: Charles Lenox Richardson and the Anglo-Satsuma War (Amsterdam, 2019). His essays have appeared in Past and Present, The English Historical Review, Journal of Historical Geography, and Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. He is co-editor, most recently, of Inlands: Empires, Contested Interiors, and the Connection of the World (Columbia University Press, 2024).

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies (EALC)
Conrad Humanities Scholar, 2025-28
Department of History & Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC)
Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (CEAPS), Affiliate
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
riwilson@illinois.edu
See my book: Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan's Rivers, 1600-1930 (Brill):
https://brill.com/view/title/57673

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Dr Rukhsana is working in the department of history as Professor. Her area of interest is cultural history and post colonial Theory. Two of her books are published. Dr Rukhsana has presented her work in US, England , Türkiye and Malaysia. She has done project with Türkiye and Uzbekistan. Now a days she is working on the project of culture and ethnography of Old cities

Ruth Mostern is Professor of History and Director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh and President of the World History Association.  She is the author of two single-authored books: Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of the Song State, 960-1276 CE (Harvard Asia Center, 2011), and The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press, 2021), winner of the Joseph Levenson Prize from the Association for Asian Studies in 2022.  She is also co-editor of Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana University Press, 2016), and of a special issue of Open Rivers Journal (2017).  Ruth is Principal Investigator and Project Director of the World Historical Gazetteer, a prize-winning digital infrastructure platform for integrating databases of historical place name information.

Sangwoo HAN received his Ph.D. in East Asian Studies (Early modern Korean History) from Sungkyunkwan University. He served as a postdoctoral researcher with the university’s Chosŏn Household Register Digitization Project, as well as on the ERC project at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of History at Ajou University. His research explores Korean society, population, and family within the broader East Asian context.

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Prof. Sarah Eltabib is an interdisciplinary educator, scholar, and advocate for ethical global leadership. A member of the World History Association since 2010, she now serves as Secretary of the WHA, helping guide the organization’s mission and support its international community of educators and scholars. She also serves on the executive committee of the Midwest World History Association and has contributed to the AP World History program as a long‑time reader and leader.

Sarah completed graduate studies in Modern World History (ABD) at St. John’s University in Queens, NY, and most recently a PhD candidate at St. Mary‑of‑the‑Woods College. Her current research explores the intersection of ethical leadership and religious freedom in world history, examining how philosophical tensions, institutional structures, and historical movements have shaped modern understandings of governance, belief, and global responsibility.

Beyond her scholarly work, Sarah has chaired her university’s Faculty Senate for over seven years, a role she approaches with a blend of pride, humor, and deep commitment to shared governance.

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Sebin Cheon is a PhD candidate in History Education at Seoul National University, where she also completed her BA and MA She has taught pre-service history teachers. Her research asks what it means to know history amid contemporary challenges to historical consciousness, and how such knowing shapes students as subjects who interpret, judge, and respond to others across time. She is also committed to inquiry-based history instruction that nurtures students' capacity to think historically and engage critically with the past. Her publications explore how colligatory concepts structure historical understanding and how contextualization functions as a pedagogical problem in history classrooms.

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Oluwaṣeun Otọsedẹ Williams is a historian of veterinary public health, pastoral ecology, livestock economy and food systems in Nigeria and West Africa. He is an Ad Astra Fellow/Assistant Professor in One Health at the University College Dublin’s School of History. Williams recently completed his PhD in International History and Politics (minor in Anthropology and Sociology) at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland. His doctoral dissertation has been earned him the 2024 Early Career Scholar Award of the World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine, the 2025 Pierre du Bois Prize for the best doctoral thesis in contemporary history, and the 2025 Henry Sigerist Prize for early career scholars in the history of medicine and science.

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Seung Woo is Assistant Professor, Department of History at Hanyang University. His latest research includes South Korea's external debt management and the way in which technocrats leveraged indebtedness to introduce liberalization policies under the new military government of the 1980s. He also explores the economic relations between North Korea and Sweden in the 1970s and 1980s.

I frame Modern Japan through the prism of Global Intellectual History. Thematically, I specialize in the post-Kuhnian History of Science and Intellectual History of Language, integrating Linguistic Anthropology. Interrogating the genealogy of academic paradigms—from pre-Meiji philological discourse and translational praxis to modern linguistics—I reveal how the scientific categorization of knowledge constituted as a geopolitical imperative to index sovereign legitimacy and political modernity in the 19th century.

Severyan studied at the University of Paris 7 and Concordia University, earning his PhD from the Geneva Graduate Institute in 2022. His thesis examined Soviet public diplomacy in India during the 1950s–60s, and he has published several texts on Soviet Indian educational, medical, and cultural exchanges. Since 2022 he has held Swiss National Science Foundation and Canadian SSHRC grants for a project on Soviet Red Cross internationalism, conducted at Harvard, NYU, Carleton, and the University of Fribourg. Severyan is also a Research Associate at the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Center for Digital Humanities, working on digitizing archival sources, including the Ukrainian Red Cross in Exile, 1939-45.

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Name:
Shunsuke Nakaoka

Address for correspondence:
Faculty of Economics
Kobe University
2-1 Rokkodai-cho Nada-ku
657-8501 Hyogo JAPAN
nakaoka@econ.kobe-u.ac.jp(office)
shnakaoka@nifty.com (home)

Occupation:
Professor (full-time)
Faculty and Graduate School of Economics
Kobe University

Academic Degree:
Ph.D (LSE: University of London)

Selected publications

’The Making of Modern Riches: The Social Origins of the Economic Elite in the Early 20th Century’ Social Science Japan Journal 9-2 (2006).

“Binding Emotions for Long-Term Continuity of Family Business? The Foundation of Family Rule and Mitsui’s Business in late 19th and early 20th Century Japan”, Entreprises et Histoire, 91 (2018).

“Rothschild, Warburg and the Mitsui family -the case of ownership and organizational reforms under the modern legal constraints in the early 20th century Japan”, Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics and Business Law, 8-3 (2019).

“A gateway to the business world? The analysis of networks in connecting the modern Japanese nobility to the business elite”, Business History, 64-2 (2022).

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Soeun Lee is an Associate Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE). She is interested in how students relate to history within contemporary society and seeks ways to support the development of their historical thinking. In line with this interest, she earned her Ph.D. from Seoul National University with a dissertation on students’ understanding of substantive historical concepts.
Her research centers on historical literacy and the teaching of “difficult histories.” She has co-authored a book examining history curricula designed to promote historical literacy. More recently, her work focuses on how difficult histories, such as immigrant histories and colonial pasts, are represented within school contexts. Her research aims to identify effective pedagogical approaches and the professional support that teachers need to foster students’ deeper, more critical, and meaningful historical understanding.

Completed doctoral coursework in Performing Arts Studies at Seoul National University. Research focuses on (Korean) musical theatre and changgeuk. Active as a performing arts and musical theatre critic.

Sota Maruono is a high school teacher at Tokiwa University High School, specializing in
Assyriology and history education. He received his B.A. in Humanities from the University of Tsukuba. His research focuses on bridging historical scholarship and pedagogy, with a particular interest in how the methodologies of Assyriology can inform innovative practices in history education. He has published on topics such as the application of social network analysis to cuneiform sources and the design of collaborative learning models in the classroom. In addition to his teaching, Maruono actively engages in public history initiatives that promote open, citizen-collaborative approaches to the study of the ancient world. He has presented his work at numerous lectures and conferences, aiming to connect academic
research with wider audiences and to foster dialogue between ancient history, digital methods,
and contemporary educational practices. https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0240-2298

Steven Lee (he/his) is associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia.

Sumin Shin is a PhD candidate in History Education at Seoul National University. Her research examines how historical writing—particularly source-based writing—is assessed in teachers’ classroom practices, and how writing mediates students’ historical thinking and meaning-making between the past and the present. Her interests also extend to history education beyond school, especially museums as sites where historical understanding is produced through interpretation, narrative, and engagement with material traces of the past.

This panel is organized by the Academy of Korean Studies and the Korean History Education Society.

Hanseok Ko is a visiting researcher at the Center for Educational Research, Seoul National University. His research focuses on the provincial governance of the Roman Empire, its interactions with provincials, and the content of world history education.
Eun Kyung Shim is an EdD candidate in the Department of History Education, College of Education, Seoul National University. Her research interests include historical agency in world history textbooks and history education in international curricula such as A-level and IB.
Mimi Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of History Education, College of Education at Seoul National University. Her research interests include the role of historical materials, the teaching and learning of historical inquiry, and history teacher preparation.
Soeun Lee is an Associate Research Fellow at Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE). Her research centers on students’ historical understanding, historical literacy, and the teaching of ‘difficult histories’.
Yongjun Park is an M.A. student in Department of History Education, Korea National University of Education, and a history educator in the Korean public education system. His research interests encompass the exploration of the prevailing trends and intrinsic nature of discourses in the fields of history and history education, with particular attention to the ways in which these discourses themselves are historically situated and constituted.

Sundara Vadlamudi (Sundar) is a historian of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World. His teaching and scholarship efforts are guided by two objectives: to examine the connections between South Asia and the Indian Ocean World and to situate events in South Asia within broader developments in World History. He uses Transnational History as an approach and a process to understand the movement and exchange of people, goods, capital, and ideas across South Asia and the wider Indian Ocean region during the early modern and modern periods. Sundar’s teaching areas include History of South Asia, World History and the Indian Ocean World/Maritime History.

Sundar is from the American University of Sharjah (UAE). Prior to joining AUS, he was an ASIANetwork Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Asian History at Wabash College (USA).

Sungshin Kim (Ph.D. UPenn) is professor of history at the University of North Georgia, where she teaches courses on the history of East Asia, China, and Korea, as well as the world history survey. Dr. Kim’s current scholarship is focused on the historical imagination in genre literature.

Supriya Kumari is a Ph.D. scholar at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, located in Himachal Pradesh, India. Her research centers on the political and economic history of early medieval South Asia (c. 7th - 12th centuries CE), with particular emphasis on processes of monetization, currency systems, temple economies, and regional exchange networks. She examines both metallic and non-metallic media of exchange- including coins, cowries, livestock, and agrarian produce- to analyze patterns of circulation, redistribution, and resource mobilization. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that integrates epigraphy, numismatics and economic history, her work seeks to illuminate the intersections between sacred institutions, political authority, and economic transformation. Through this framework, Supriya contributes to broader scholarly debates on commercialization, regional state formation, and the dynamics of economic change in early medieval India.

Surabhi Baijal is an interdisciplinary researcher and writer whose work spans environmental humanities, feminist legal theory, critical animal studies, and postcolonial ecological thought. She has presented at major international conferences including the World Congress of Environmental History, World-Ecology Research Network, and the International Society for Folk Narrative Research. Her essays explore the politics of disposability, ecological grief, and care as resistance. Drawing from both lived experience and academic training, she works at the intersection of rescue work, justice, and the emotional toll of witnessing cruelty in collapsing urban ecosystems.

Ta Thi Lan Khanh
Professor, Department of Political Science,
Ho Chi Minh City Cadre Academy,
Viet Nam

Biography: Khanh Thi Lan Ta is a PhD candidate at Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, specializing in international migration and urban anthropology. Her dissertation examines Korean community formation in Ho Chi Minh City through spatial theory, contributing to scholarship on transnational networks and sustainable multicultural urban development in Southeast Asia.

Contact Information:
Department of Political Science,
Ho Chi Minh City Cadre Academy,
324 Chu Van An Street,
Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam
Tel: +84908926873
Email: t.tlkhanh@hcmca.edu.vn
Category: Oral Presentation
Presenter Category: Delegate
Name for the Certificate: Ta Thi Lan Khanh

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Takuya Tokuhara（徳原 拓哉）
World History Teacher, IB Teacher at Yokohama Senior High School for International Studies
tokuharatakuya1030@gmail.com

Degree:
2025: Master of Interdisciplinary Information Studies(Research Degree), Graduate School of Tokyo University(Tokyo, Japan).
2015: B.A. in American History, Yamaguchi University(Yamaguchi Japan).

Teaching and Social service:
2025-present, Shophia University
2021-present, Yokohama Senior High School for International Studies(Kanagawa, Japan)
2016, Tsurumi senior highschool(Kanagawa, Japan)

Main Publications:
“Who is the Historian” -Historical practice in the classroom struggling with fighting
against denialism, Mizuki Hoshi and Tatsuya Watanabe eds., Gendaini Tsunagu Rekishi Jugyou Design( in Japanese), Meiji Tosho, 31-46, Aug 2025.
“Rethinking Well-Being -Why do we fail to grasp neoliberalism as a matter of historiography,” Syakaikakyouiku(in Japanese), 786(10) 18-21, Sep 2024.
“Public history as a recursive perspective -Classroom space, outside classroom space, historical culture, and life-story,” Syakaikakyouiku(in Japanese), 786(10) 116-119, Sep 2024.
“The world changed by the internet - the Black Lives Matter movement of those placed on the periphery,” Connecting Global History 3: Exploring the Historical Context of Modern Times/SDGs., 3 231-235, Sep 2023.
“Scaling of Questions and Curriculum in Historical Synthesis—-"Questions as Fractal Structures" Model,” Yamakawa History Press, (6) 6-10, Feb, 2022.
What was 'high school-university collaboration' - on Shar-ed/ing Authority and digital public history?, Bulletin of the Association of High School-University Cooperative History Education(10) 8-25, Mar, 2022
The hidden story of the women of Postwar Yokohama, Known as "Pan-Pan," World History from Kanagawa: Walking, Seeing, and Feeling History, 155-156, Dec, 2021

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Dr. Thanggoulen Kipgen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras, India. His research focuses on migration, borderlands, urban sociology, ethnography, and the social worlds of Northeast India. His work combines ethnographic depth with critical sociological analysis, offering significant insights into the experiences of migrants and the complexities of identity formation in contemporary urban contexts. He has also undertaken substantial research on transborder migration from the Indo–Myanmar borderland to Singapore, examining how globalisation, kinship networks, and religious institutions shape the mobility and reconstitution of Kuki communities across international boundaries.

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Toshiaki Tamaki is Professor of Economic History at Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan. He was originally trained as a specialist in the early modern Baltic trade, with a particular focus on long-distance commerce, shipping, and the institutional structures that supported exchange in Northern Europe. His early research examined how merchants, ports, and commercial practices connected the Baltic region to wider European markets.

Over time, this regional focus led him to broader questions concerning circulation, intermediation, and the organisation of global trade. Building on his work on the Baltic, Professor Tamaki gradually expanded his research to encompass European expansion, diasporic merchant networks, and the global infrastructures that enabled long-distance exchange. This shift reflected an increasing interest in how economic coordination was achieved across political and cultural boundaries, rather than in production alone.

His subsequent research has emphasised the role of commissions, logistics, financial mechanisms, and communication systems in shaping global economic connections from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. Through this work, he has developed the concept of “commission capitalism” to explain how economic gains were generated and appropriated through circulation and intermediation. He is particularly interested in the ways in which imperial powers internalised intermediary functions through control over shipping, insurance, finance, and information.

Professor Tamaki has published widely in global and economic history and has presented his research at numerous international conferences. He is currently working on a book-length project that reinterprets global economic history through the lens of intermediation and infrastructure. His presentation today draws on this broader research trajectory.

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Vaishali Gupta holds an M.A. in English (Honours), an M.Phil. in English Literature, and a B.Ed. She has a strong academic background in literary studies and cultural analysis, with a keen interest in gender studies, queer theory, and contemporary Indian literature and cinema. Her research engages with questions of representation, identity, and marginal voices within Indian cultural narratives. The paper titled “Representation of Lesbianism in Indian Culture: A Comparative Study of Select Indian English Novelists’ Characterization and Depiction in Indian Film” reflects her scholarly focus on examining how Indian English novels and cinema construct, negotiate, and challenge societal perceptions of lesbian identity.

Vera Parham is Professor of History at American Military University. She earned her PhD in Native American History from the University of California, Riverside, and an MA in Public History from the University of San Diego. Her research and publications focus on the use of protest by various Native American groups and individuals of the Pacific Northwest aimed at preserving and protecting culture and heritage. Lexington Press published her latest book titled, Pan-Tribal Activism in the Pacific Northwest: The Power of Indigenous Protest and the Birth of Daybreak Star Cultural Center. She also serves as the Vice President of the World History Association of Hawaii and has presented papers on Indigenous struggles for survival at numerous conferences. Her publications appear in several anthologies and journals that concentrate on Native American and Public History. Professor Parham teaches courses in World History, Indigenous Activist Women, Native American Cultural Survival and History, United States History, Public History, and Historiography. Her museum experience includes time at the National Museum of the American Indian.

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I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. I received a BA in Western History and Sociology from Seoul National University, with summa cum laude, and an MA in Sociology from the same institution. My research interests include the history of capitalism, financial history, socioeconomic history, environmental history, and colonialism. I am currently working on a commodity history of rice in the Japanese Empire, focusing on how colonial rice trade helped usher in capitalist institutions, organizations, and ethos in modern East Asia.

Woojeong Choi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University in Seoul. Her research explores gender, cultural citizenship, and material modernity in twentieth-century East Asian visual and performance culture, with a focus on transnational comparisons between Korea and Japan. Her doctoral dissertation examines the representation of female college students in 1980s Korean popular cinema. She is co-editor of Kinema: Film-Novels and Scenarios (Vols. 1 & 2, 2024–2025) and has published on Korean women’s independent film fandom. She also engages with contemporary media discourse as a film and theater critic.

Yaqi Wang is a PhD student in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta, where she studies the global history of modern climbing sports. Trained in anthropology at the University of Chicago, and in Spanish at Peking University, Yaqi brings an interdisciplinary and multilingual perspective to the study of world climbing history. Her research examines how mountains become sites of nationalism, globalization, gender politics, and environmental ethics. Beyond academia, Yaqi previously worked as a journalist in China, writing nonfiction stories focused on international events, climate change, and education.

Yejun Kweon is a second year Master’s candidate in the Department of History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her academic interests focus on Korean history and intersect with environmental history, literary history, cultural memory, everyday life, industrialism, and urbanism.

Yijun Wang is a historian of early modern China. Her research interests include history of technology, material culture, and gender. She received her BA from Tsinghua University (2010) and her MA (2015) and PhD (2019) from Columbia University. She joined the Department of History at NYU in 2019.
Wang's forthcoming book, The Tin Centuries: Technology and Statecraft in Qing China (University of Washington Press, 2026), tells the story of how a mundane metal linked miners and officials to both global capitalism and an emerging technocratic state. She is currently working on a new project on the long-durée global history of oranges centered on East Asia. The project offers a perspective for understanding plants, insects, and landscapes that became entangled with humans long before industrial agriculture, revealing patterns of smallholder agriculture, local knowledge, political economy, and human-nonhuman relationships that industrial monoculture has obscured.

Yiyun Huang is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of History, Wuhan University. He earned his PhD in early American history from the same institution in 2023. He is currently working on his first book which examines the medicinal exchanges between late imperial China and early North America. It seeks to explain how and why the ideas of tea as medicine transferred from China via Europe to early America. His research has received support from the American Historical Association, the Omohundro Institute, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the American Antiquarian Society, among others.

Yongjun Park is an M.A. student in Department of History Education, Korea National University of Education, and a history educator in the Korean public education system. His research interests encompass the exploration of the prevailing trends and intrinsic nature of discourses in the fields of history and history education, with particular attention to the ways in which these discourses themselves are historically situated and constituted.

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Yvonne Liao is a music historian and Assistant Professor in Musicology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her current interests include postcolonial writing, global and world history, public humanities, and human-animal studies, with related projects funded by the CUHK Faculty of Arts and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in The Musical Quarterly, The Chopin Review, Postcolonial Studies, and the Journal of Global History. Yvonne is also co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Music Colonialism and working on her monograph, Imperfect Global, Imperfect Empire: Writing Musical Lives across Shanghai and Hong Kong, 1897–2024, under contract with The University of Chicago Press.

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I am a contract researcher at Seoul National University. My specialization is in social history and historical sociology (particularly concerning Korea). I am interested in the relationship between class/stratification, social organization, and social identity. I am especially interested in comparative research involving diverse societies, including both Western and Eastern contexts. Simply put, I am interested in comparative research on the changes and balances in social organization, its formation, and related cultural shifts across various societies.
Currently, I am conducting historical-demographic and historical-sociological research on population and social organization in Korea during the pre-modern to modern transition period. I am also engaged in conceptual history research through quantitative analysis of key terms.