PhD Candidate
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Biography
Juwon Kim is a doctoral student of modern Korean history in the Department of East Asian Studies. Prior to joining the University of Toronto in 2020, she received her B.A. in East Asian Studies from Columbia University and M.A. in Regional Studies - East Asia from Harvard University, where she focused on the political culture of postcolonial South Korea in newsreels and documentaries. Her current research interests include postwar South Korean popular culture and transpacific literary and visual articulations of race during the Cold War.
Awards
- 2020 Connaught International Scholarship for Doctoral Students (2020-2025) University of Toronto
Education
MA, Harvard University
BA, Columbia University
Presentations
"Screening the Empire: _Liberty News_ and the Making of Postcolonial Korea," Excavated Footage, U.S. Archives, and Alternative Historiography Virtual Workshop, March 11-12, 2021
"Cartography of Belonging: Circulating Newsreels in Post-1945 Korea," 29th Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, New York, February 21-22, 2020