Center for Korean Studies

JAYMIN KIM is a first-year Ph. D. student in the history department. He is mainly interested in transnational cultural history of early modern East Asia with focus on China and Korea, especially during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His current project is a case study of male friendship between Korean scholars and Chinese scholars during the eighteenth century, and he is also planning to do research in Seoul, Beijing, and Hangzhou over the summer.

JI-HYUNG RACHEL LEE is a third year doctoral student in Anthropological Archaeology, interested in the early history of East Asia, especially Korea. Current research interests include the Jeulmun and Mumun periods of Korea, as well as early state formation. In addition, she holds an interest in ancient landscapes that have also taken her to excavations in Uzbekistan, Turkey, and China.

YOUNGCHUL KIM is a Ph.D. Candidate in Architecture at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is interested in housing & neighborhood designs and urban redevelopments as a researcher and architect. Mr. Kim graduated from the Department of Architecture at Seoul National University with a master and bachelor degrees, and has worked for Kunwon Architects, Planners, and Engineers in Korea.

HEEJIN JUN is a doctoral candidate in the department of Sociology. Her research focuses on gender identity formation through the examination of Korean literature field during the Japanese colonial period. Outside of sociology, she loves to walk while listening audio books.

NORA HAUK is a second year PhD student in Sociocultural Anthropology at Michigan. She researches how Christianity is a means for imagining personal and political futures. For her dissertation, she plans to study South Korean church-based aid, development projects, and missionary work directed toward North Korea to examine how political goals interact with religious practices, testimonies, and theologies. This summer, she will study Korean language in an intensive program and conduct preliminary research.