PhD, 2001, University of London (History)

MA, 1997, University of London (East Asian Studies, Distinction)
MA, 1996, The Johns Hopkins University (History, Phi Beta Kappa)
BA, 1996, The Johns Hopkins University (History, Phi Beta Kappa)

To Live to Work: Factory Women in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945.  Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2009.

“Living in Flight: Civilian Displacement, Suffering, and Relief during the Korean War, 1945-1953,” Sahak yon’gu [Historical research], (December 2010), forthcoming.

“Labor Mobilization in Late-Colonial Korea, 1937-1945,” book chapter in Andre Schmid, ed., Reader on Colonial Korea, forthcoming.

"The Pacific War and Working Women in Late-Colonial Korea," Signs 33:1 (Fall 2007), 81-104.

“The Varieties of Women’s Wage Work in Colonial Korea,” The Review of Korean Studies, 10:3 (June 2007), 119-146.

Papers / Lectures:

Book Talk for the Department of East Asian Studies, ‘To Live to Work: Factory Women in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945,’ Berkeley, California, University of California at Berkeley, (October 13, 2010).

‘Refugee Life during the Korean War as Heard through Testimony,’ Association for Asian Studies 62nd Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (March 25-28, 2010).

‘Refugees during the Korean War,’ The Association for Korean Studies in Europe 2009 Conference, Centre for Korean Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands (June 17-21, 2009).

‘The Early Colonial Korean Economy and Transitions in the Labor Market, 1910-1937,’ Association for Asian Studies 60th Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia (April 3-6, 2008).

Lecture for the Center for Korean Studies, “From Kitchen Raids to General Strikes: Women Workers’ Activism in Colonial Korea,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, (February 13, 2008).

Lecture for the Center for Korean Studies, “The Flowers of Japanese-Korean Unity: the Women’s Labor Volunteer Corps in Late-Colonial Korea,” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, (March 9, 2007).

History 4766.6.0: Communist Revolutions in Asia: China, Korea, Vietnam [Course Director, 2010-11]

History 4765.6.0: Rethinking Gender in East Asian History [Course Director, 2003-2009]

History 3766.3.0: The Two Koreas since WWII [Course Director, 2007-2009, 2010-2011]

History 3765.6.0: Korea: A Long History of the Hermit Nation [Course Director, 2004-2006, 2007-2008]

History 1030.6.0: Imperialism and Nationalism in Asia [Course Director, 2005-2009, 2010-2011]

Modern East Asia, twentieth-century Korea, colonialism and postcolonialism, civil war and migration, industrial labor and gender relations, capitalist development and the domestic economy.  Manuscript projects underway include: “Between Mountains: Refugee Life during the Korean War, 1945-1953” and “The Economics of Emotion: The Integration of Domestic and Political Economies in South Korea, 1953-1987”

Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant 2010-2013 for “Between Mountains: Refugee Life during the Korean War” [$45,000 CDN for Research]

Korea Foundation Field Research Fellowship (2010) [2.7 million KRW per month, payable for a 12-month period, for Research in Korea]

York University Faculty of Arts Research Grant (2008-2009, 2003-2004) [$2700 and $4000 CDN for Research in East Asia]

Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Small Grant (2007-2008, 2003-2004) [$2000 CDN for Conference Presentation and Manuscript Revision and $3000 CDN for Research]

York Faculty of Arts Teaching Development Grant (2007, 2003) [$630 CDN for Visual and Research Aids for 1030.6.0 and $800 CDN for Visual and Research Aids for 3765.6.0]