Jisoo M Kim

Jisoo M Kim



Jisoo M Kim is Korea Foundation associate professor of history, international affairs, and East Asian languages and literatures at George Washington University (GW). She is the author of an award-winning book, The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2015), which was translated into Korean (2020), Chinese (forthcoming in 2025), and Japanese (under preparation). Jisoo is the co-editor of JaHyun Kim Haboush’s posthumous book, The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation (Columbia University Press, 2016; with William Haboush), and the editor of Emotions, Affect, and Narrative in Korean History and Culture (University of Hawaii Press, forthcoming 2025). She is currently a fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2024-2025), completing a book project tentatively titled Criminalizing Adultery: Monogamous Marriage, Concubinage, and Intimate Equality in Twentieth Century Korea. Jisoo is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Studies and serves on several editorial boards. She was the Founding Director of the Institute for Korean Studies (2017-2024) and the Co-Founding Director of the East Asia National Resource Center (2018-2024) at GW. She received her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

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