Jisoo Kim

On leave, 2009-10.

Jisoo Kim specializes in the gender and legal history of early modern Korea. She is interested in a broad range of topics in Korean history with a particular focus on female subjectivity, sexuality, crime and justice, diglossia, and the history of emotions. Her dissertation, “Voices Heard: Women’s Right to Petition in Late Chosŏn Korea,” deals with the issue of women as legal subjects and how women exercised the right to petition to redress grievances. She will join GW in 2010 after serving as a visiting scholar at Seoul National University’s Kyujanggak Institute. (Complete C.V.)

Selected Publications

“Individual Petitions: Petitions by Women in the Chosŏn.” In Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosŏn, 1392–1910, ed. JaHyun Kim Haboush, 68-76. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

Courses Taught

Hist 101: Modern Korean History
Hist 101: Korean Civilization: Korea’s Place in the World
Hist 297: Gender, Subjectivity, and Social Change in East Asia: From 1600 to Contemporary Society
Hist 297: Graduate seminar: Gender and Sexuality in Korea

Education

Ph.D., Columbia University, 2009.