{"id":4107,"date":"2025-08-20T20:49:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ksi\/?page_id=4107"},"modified":"2026-08-25T00:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:43:06","slug":"postdoctoral-scholars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ksi\/mission\/people\/postdoctoral-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Postdoctoral and Visiting Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n          \n          \n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--editorial-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--editorial-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n      <div class=\"cards-container\">\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ksi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/12\/Headshot-230517-19-900x1260-2.png\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n            \n                            <h3>\n                  \n                    Monica Cho\n\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"mark6o4j37q1v\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Monica<\/span>\u00a0W.\u00a0<span class=\"marker7al7dpe\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Cho<\/span> is a Visiting Scholar at the Korean Studies Institute. Her research areas include modern and contemporary Korean literature and culture, women\u2019s writings, madness, feminist ecological criticism, and gender studies. She received her PhD from the University of California, Irvine in East Asian Studies with emphases in Critical Theory and Feminist Studies. <span class=\"mark6o4j37q1v\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Monica<\/span>\u00a0is currently working on a\u00a0book project (<i>Reclaiming Our Time: Six Decades of Madness in Korean Women&#8217;s Writings<\/i>) which examines how madness functions as a literary device and a method of feminist and ecocritical critiques of postwar South Korean modernity in Korean women writers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ksi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2026\/08\/Kim-Juwon_resized.jpg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"juwon kim\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n            \n                            <h3>\n                  \n                    Juwon Kim\n\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Juwon Kim is a Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Korean Studies Institute. Drawing from critical race and gender studies, postcolonial studies, and transpacific studies, her research examines the history of race, racialization, and racism as a social construct in the twentieth-century South Korea and Korean diaspora. She received her PhD in East Asian Studies from the University of Toronto, where she was a 2025\u20132026 recipient of the Korea Foundation Scholarship for Graduate Studies. Her work on race, transwar colonialism, and the Korean War has been published or is forthcoming in\u00a0<i>Verge: Studies in Global Asias\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0<i>Journal of Korean Studies<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ksi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2025\/12\/Lee-e1755722859674-500x500-1.jpg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n            \n                            <h3>\n                  \n                    Jeongin Lee\n\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Jeongin Lee works at the intersection of sonic practice, embodied performance, and feminist inquiry, exploring how listening mediates political subjectivity, memory, and everyday life. Drawing on ethnomusicology and performance studies, her research attends to the relational, affective, and sensory dimensions of sonic experience in militarized and socially contested spaces. She received her PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in performance studies from Texas A&amp;M University, and a B.A. in music from Ewha Womans University in Seoul. Her work has been recognized with the Vida Chenoweth Prize, an Honorable Mention for the Seeger Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Martin Hatch Prize from the Society for Asian Music. As a postdoctoral fellow in the USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities, she is affiliated with the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and KSI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"parent":162,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4107","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Postdoctoral and Visiting Scholars - Korean Studies Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ksi\/mission\/people\/postdoctoral-scholars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Postdoctoral and Visiting Scholars - 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