Faculty

Jungwon Kim

Jungwon Kim

King Sejong Associate Professor of Korean Studies

Office: 402 Kent Hall
Office Hours: T 4:00-6:00 pm
Email: jk3638@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Harvard University (’07)

Classes Taught

ASCE UN1363 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Korea

HEAS W3862 The History of Korea to 1900

EAAS W4310 Narrating Premodern Korea

HSEA W4860 Culture and Society of Chosŏn Korea, 1392-1910

EAAS W4888 Women and Gender in Korean History

HSEA G8861 Colloquium on Korean History to 1900
EAAS UN3412 Conflict & Culture in Korean History
HSEA GR9860 Korean Historical Texts

Research Interests

Premodern Korean History; Legal History; Gender and Sexuality and Women’s Writing

Jungwon Kim is a historian specializing in premodern Korea, with a focus on the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392-1910). Her research examines gender and sexuality, law and justice, crime and punishment, ritual and emotion, women’s writings, and the history of knowledge. She is the author of Virtue That Matters: Chastity Culure and Social Power in Chosŏn Korea, 1392-1910 (Harvard University Press, 2025). Her other works include co-authoring Wrongful Death: Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea (University of Washington Press, 2019). She also edited the special issue, “Archives, Archival Practices, and the Writing of History in Premodern Korea” (Journal of Korean Studies, 2019). Her articles have appeared in major journals, including Acta Koreana, Gender and History, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Women’s History, Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture, and Journal of Korean Studies. She is currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled Families in Trials: Local Courts and Legal Culture in Chosŏn Korea. She earned her PhD from Harvard University, previously taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before coming to Columbia.

Selected Publications

“Inscribing Grievances, Litigation, and Local Community in Eighteenth-Century Korea,” Journal of Asian Studies 81.2 (2022)

Beyond Death: The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korean History (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019), co-edited with Charles Kim, Hwasook Nam, and Serk-bae Suh.

“Between Morality and Crime: Filial Daughters and Vengeful Violence in Eighteenth Century Korea,” Acta Koreana (2018)

Wrongful Death: Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth Century Korea (with Sun Joo Kim, Washington, 2014)

“You Must Avenge on My Behalf: Widow Chastity and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Korea”, Gender and History (2014)

Ji-Young Jung

Ji-Young Jung

Senior Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502-E Kent Hall
Office Hours: M/R 1:10-2:10 PM
Email: jj277@columbia.edu

Educational Background

Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2009)
Ed.M. in Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2002)
M.A. in TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University (2001)
B.A. in French Language and Literature, Kyungpook National University (1996)

Classes Taught

Introductory Korean
First Year Korean
Accelerated Korean
Third Year Korean

Research Interests

Discourse Analysis
Second Language Acquisition
Heritage Language Education

Ji-Young Jung has an eighteen-year teaching career as a foreign language educator, offering instruction across various proficiency levels of the Korean language. Her teaching repertoire spans diverse courses, including Korean for Heritage Speakers, language-and-content courses like Current Korean Media, and Advanced Readings in Korean, where she delves into contemporary Korean literature. Before her appointment to the EALAC faculty in 2018, Ji-Young Jung shared her expertise at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is a co-author of Integrated Korean: Accelerated I and II for the KLEAR Korean Textbook Series (University of Hawai‘i Press), the most widely used Korean language textbook series in North America. Ji-Young Jung’s contributions extend to her role on the task force responsible for creating the College Korean Curriculum Inspired by the National Standards for Korean in 2015. In addition, Ji-Young Jung holds full certifications as a tester for both ACTFL’s OPI, a language proficiency assessment tool widely utilized in academic and commercial contexts, and ILR OPI, a critical assessment instrument employed by the U.S. government and military.

Selected Publications

Korean for Specific Purposes. In A. S. Byon and D. O. Pyun (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Korean as a Second Language (pp. 194-221) (Routledge, 2022)

Integrated Korean: Accelerated 1 & Accelerated 2 (co-author, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020 & 2021)

Literacies and Multiliteracies in Korean Language Learning and Teaching. In Y. Y. Cho (Ed.) Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Theories and Practices (pp. 117-146). (co-author, Routledge, 2021).

Citizen sociolinguistics: Making connections in the foreign language classroom. Korean Language in America, 22(1), 1-24 (co-author, 2018)

Robert P.W. Hymes

Robert Hymes

Carpentier Professor of Chinese History

Office: 504 Kent Hall
Phone: (212) 854-2580
Email: rph2@columbia.edu

Office hours: R 12-2:00PM, Please make an appointment in advance by email.

Educational Background

BA: Columbia College (’72)
MA: University of Pennsylvania (’75)
PhD: University of Pennsylvania (’79)

Classes Taught

EAAS UN3990 Approaches to East Asian Studies
HSEA GU4893 The Family in Chinese History
HSEA GR8883 Topics in the Middle Period of Chinese History

Research Interests

Middle-Period China, Social and Cultural History, Social Networks, Family and Kinship

Robert Hymes’ work focuses on the social and cultural history of middle period and early modern China, drawing questions and sometimes data from cultural anthropology as well as history, and using the methods of the local historian to study elite culture, family and kinship, medicine, religion, gender, and (currently) the changing role and form of Chinese social networks from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries. His monographs Statesmen and Gentlemen and Way and Byway won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book on pre-1900 China in their years of publication.

Selected Publications

“Thoughts on the Problem of Historical Comparison between Europe and China,” in Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800–1600 (Oxford, forthcoming 2018)

Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China (University of California, 2002)

Statesmen and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern and Southern Sung (Cambridge, 1987)