Dr

Growing up in Korea with three sisters, Prof. Lee realized that memories and interpretations of the seemingly
“shared’ past could vary dramatically even within a family. As a natural extension of her interest in such dynamic
process of producing historical knowledge, Dr. Lee’s current projects examine the competing narratives of collective
violence in the early twentieth-century Japanese empire. Committed to generating cross-disciplinary
methodological innovation in the studies of empire, violence, imperialism, and colonialism, Prof. Lee
incorporates variety of historical “texts”—such as rumors, testimonies, paintings, children’s writings, and
commemorations—in her research and teaching in and beyond the boundaries of historical archives. She has
written and translated books, booklets, articles, book/film reviews, and exhibition brochures in Japanese, Korean
and English. Dr. Lee got her inter-disciplinary training in linguistics, anthropology, area studies and history at
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, S. Korea), Drexel University (PA), University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
and University of Illinois. Prior to joining EIU, she has taught Asian history and cultures at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign and Fort Hays State University.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004

Fields of Study: Modern Japanese history, Korean history, Anthropology of Korea
Fieldwork: Yokohama, 2000-2001 (College Women’s Association of Japan

Tokyo, 2002-2003 (Ministry of Education; University of Tokyo)

A.M. in Asian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Fields of Study: Japanese and Korean history

B.A. in Japanese, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea.

(International Culture College, Shizuoka, Japan; Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA)

RESEARCH AREAS

Japanese Empire; Colonial Korea; Imperialism and Postcoloniality in the East Asian Context;

Archive, Narrative, and Representation; Colonial Legacies in 20c Japan and Korea;

Gendered Experience of Modernity; Social Impact of Disaster; Korean Diaspora; Critical Globalism

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of History, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, 2005-

Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, The Graduate College, Eastern Illinois University, 2007
Visiting Faculty, International Summer School, Ajou University, Suwon, S. Korea, Summer 2008-9
Visiting Faculty, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2008

Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of History, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS, 2004-2005

Graduate Instructor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 1997-2003

Graduate Teaching Award, 2002
Graduate Teacher Certificate, Office of Instructional Resources, University of Illinois, 2000
Head Graduate Instructor for EALC 150 Introduction to Japanese Culture, 1998-1999

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS (selected)

· Northeast Asia Council Research Grant, Association for Asian Studies, Spring 2008

· Faculty Development Grants, Eastern Illinois University, 2005-9

· Redden Grants for Undergraduate Instruction, Eastern Illinois University, 2005-6, 2006-7 and 2008-9

· Faculty Travel Awards, College of Arts and Humanities, Eastern Illinois University, 2006-9

· Summer Research Grant, Eastern Illinois University, 2005

· Faculty Summer Research Grant, Fort Hays State University, 2005 (declined)

· Faculty Development Grants, Fort Hays State University, 2004-5

· East Asian Languages and Cultures Summer Research Fellowship, University of Illinois, 2004

· Fellowship, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois, 2003-4

· Research Fellowship, Japanese Ministry of Education (residency at the University of Tokyo), 2002-3

· Conference Travel Award, The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois, 2003

· Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, 2002-3

· FLB Summer Research Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Illinois, 2002

· Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Illinois, 2001-2 and 1997-8

· Conference Travel Grants, Graduate College, University of Illinois, 2003, 2002 and 1999

· Yūtaishō Research Award, Yokohama no kai [Yokohama Association], Japan, 2001

· International Women’s Scholarship, College Women’s Association of Japan, 2000-1

· Itoh Foundation USA Fellowship, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, Japan, 2000-1

· Hiroko Araki Fowler Scholarship, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, Japan, 2000-1

For selected publications, click on these titles (under construction):

BOOKS

Instability of Empire: Earthquake, Rumors, and the Massacre of Koreans in the Japanese Empire (in progress)
Kwandongdaejijin Chosŏnin haksal e daehan Ilbon kukga wa minjung ŭi ch’aegim

『관동대지진 조선인 학살에 대한 일본 국가와 민중의 책임』Seoul: Nonhyung, 2008.

[The Massacre of Koreans Following the Great Kantō Earthquake: Japan’s State Responsibility and People’s Responsibility]
(Japanese-Korean Translation)

Embodying Koreans: Representations of Korean Bodies in the Japanese Empire (edited volume in preparation)
Colonial Archive Unbound: Anthology of Korea during Japanese Occupation (primary source collection in preparation)
Writing Women in Colonial Korea (edited and translated volume in preparation)

BOOKLET

· The Massacre of Koreans through Paintings (2003)

· Young in Japan (2008)

BOOK CHAPTERS and ARTICLES

· “The Enemy Within: Earthquake, Rumors, and Massacre in the Japanese Empire” (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008)

· “Competing Narratives of Colonial Mayhem: Remembering the Massacred in the Japanese Empire” (Athens, Greece, forthcoming)

· “Gendai no naka no rekishi to dentō” [History and Tradition in the Modern World] (2001)

· “Takokuseki bunka toshi Yokohama” [Yokohama: The City of Multi-national Culture] (2001)

· “Commemorating the Great Kantō Earthquake: Futei Senjin and the Politics of Mourning in the Japanese Empire”

「관동대지진을 추도함—일본 제국에 있어서의 ‘불령선인 (不逞鮮人)’과 추도의 정치학」 (2008)

· “For the Sake of the Public: Vigilantes, Self-Defense, and Colonial Violence in the Japanese Metropole.”

· “Malcontent Koreans” (futei senjin): A Genealogy of Colonial Representations of Koreans in the Japanese Metropole”

· “Writing Fear, Drawing Trauma: Children’s Narratives of Colonial Violence in Imperial Japan”

· “Jinken o kangaeru madoguchi to shite no zainichi Korian no rekishi to kūkan” (2003)

· “Sinang gwa jŏn’gong: na ŭi yŏksa yŏngu” [Faith and Profession: My Historical Research] (2003)

BOOK/FILM REVIEWS

· Review of Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (in preparation)

· Review of The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan (forthcoming)

· Review of “Kamikaze Girls” [Shimotsuma Monogatari] (2006)

· Review of “The Brotherhood of War: Taegukgi” (2004)

· Review of “Wedding through Camera Eyes: A Trilogy of Wedding Photography in Korea” (2002)

TRANSLATIONS

· National Museum of Japanese History Guidebook (Japanese-Korean translation, 2002)

· Refracted Modernity and the Issue of Pro-Japanese Collaborators in Korea (Korean-English translation with Yoo-Jung Kong, 2002)

· Unfinished Tasks for Korean Family Policy in the 1990s: Maternity Protection Policy… (Korean-English translation with Yoo-Jung Kong, 2002)

· West Goes East: Pearl Buck's The Good Earth (Korean-English translation, 2001 with Yoo-Jung Kong)

· Should Korean Historians Abandon Nationalism (Korean-English translation with Yoo-Jung Kong, 1999)

ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS

· “Minzoku gakkō to omoni gakkō” [School for Korean Residents in Japan and Mothers’ School] (2003)

MANUSCRIPT REVIEW

· Comparative Studies in Society and History, Cambridge University Press.

· Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, Duke University Press.

· Teacher-Scholar: The Journal of the State Comprehensive University, Fort Hays State University.

· East Asia Through Film, Eastern Illinois University.

· Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY.

· Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

· Longman Publishers, New York.

COURSES TAUGHT

For selected syllabi and handout samples, click on these course titles (update in progress):

HIS 4775 The Japanese Empire, Eastern Illinois University, Spring 2010 (scheduled)

HIS 4880 Modern Japan: From Samurai To Freeters, Eastern Illinois University, Fall 2009, Spring 2008 & Fall2006

AISS The Two Koreas, Ajou University, Summer 2009

HIS 5400 Narratives of Collective Violence in Modern East Asia, Eastern Illinois University, Spring 2009 and Spring 2006

HIS 3330 Modern East Asia in the Pacific Century, Eastern Illinois University, Spring 2009, Fall 2005 & Summer 2007

HIS 4870 The Two Koreas, Eastern Illinois University, Fall 2008

AISS Modern East Asia in the Pacific Century, Ajou University, Summer 2008

EALC 250 Introduction to Japanese Culture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2008

HIS 4775 Women in East Asia, Eastern Illinois University, Fall 2007

HIS 4775 Modern East Asia, Eastern Illinois University, Fall 2005 & Summer 2007

HIS 1520G Global Interactions, Eastern Illinois University, Fall 2006, Spring & Fall 2007, Fall 2008 & Spring 2009

HIS 4400 Undergraduate Independent Study, Eastern Illinois University, Summer 2006, 2007, and 2008

HIS 5990 Graduate Independent Study, Eastern Illinois University, Summer 2006 and 2009)

HIS 1500 Roots of the Modern World, Eastern Illinois University, Fall 2005 and Spring 2006

HIST 600 The Pacific Century, Fort Hays State University, Spring 2005

HIST 111 Modern World Civilization, Fort Hays State University, Fall 2004 and Spring 2005

EALC 135 Understanding East Asian Cultures and Societies, University of Illinois, Fall 2003

EALC/HIST 170 East Asian Civilization, University of Illinois, Fall 2001 and Spring 2002

For selected reading lists in modern Japanese and Korean history, click on these files (update in progress):

Selected Readings in Modern Korean History_Lee_Feb 2009

Selected Readings in Modern Japanese History_Lee_Feb 2009

INTELLIGENT MINDS I MET IN CLASS (under construction)

IN THE PRESENT

Chady Hosin

Amanda Evans

Mitsumi Takei

Greg Harrell

Tristan Sodergren-Baar

Sonya Scott

Stephanie Passalacqua

IN THE PAST:

Mark Olendzki

Brendan Hughes

Michelle Moery

Ann Rollinson

Jeff Cutright

Amber Blevins

Krishna Thomas

Rachael Harzinski

Patrick Harris

Jim Hysell

Michelle Lashley

Jonathan Stratton

Julia Morss

David Clayton

Jeff Corson

Insuk Seok

Rich Teddy

Joanne Pendry

Diane Hiltabidle

MINI-FIELD TRIPS (under construction)

The Korean War National Museum and Chanute Air Museum (Rantoul, IL) November 2008

Asian Film Festival (Champaign, IL) October 2008

Making A Scene: Curating Contemporary East Asian Art in the U.S. February 2006

Japan House October 2005, October 2006, April, and October 2008

Korean Documentary Film Festival March 2007

Korean Film Festival September 2006

and many more in Illinois, USA and Suwon & Seoul, S. Korea

PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS (selected)

For selected useful resources, click on these titles (under construction):

· Discussant, “Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea.” Korea Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, February 5, 2010 (scheduled).

· “Politics of Cartography: Mapping Tokdo/Takeshima between Korea and Japan.” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 7-10, 2010 (scheduled).

· Chair and Discussant, “Social Spaces of World War II Memories in East Asia.” Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Miami, OH, October 16-18, 2009 (scheduled).

· Discussant, “Gender and Ethnicities: Korea, Sri Lanka, and the U.S.” Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Miami, OH, October 16-18, 2009 (scheduled).

· Invited Speaker, “The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race under Empire." Workshop Critical Studies on Asia, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, May 15-16, 2009.

· Invited Speaker, “’Embodying’ Koreans: The Genealogy of Futei Senjin in the Japanese Empire, 1910s-1920s.” Scientizing Korea: (Post)colonialism, Modernity, and the Cultures of “Enlightenment,” Symposium of Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, April 17, 2009.

“Incorporating Colonial Korea into Curricular Beyond Korean Studies.” In Panel “New Resources for Developing Coursework on Modern Korea.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, IL, March 26-29, 2009.
“Writing Fear, Drawing Trauma: Children’s Narratives of Colonial Pogrom in the Japanese Metropole, 1920s.” The Sixth International Conference on History, The History Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), Athens, Greece, December 30, 2008.
Chair, “Aspects of the United States History.” The Sixth International Conference on History, The History Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece, December 29, 2008.
Invited speaker, “Course Syllabus Design.” New Faculty Orientation, Eastern Illinois University, August 20, 2008. [Syllabus Finder, Course Design Tip Sheet, Constructing a Syllabus, Syllabus as a Promise, Course Planning and Teaching, Critical Information: The Syllabus, Teaching Strategies: Syllabus and Course Design]
Discussant for Helen J. S. Lee’s “Voices of the ‘Colonists,” Voices of the ‘Immigrants’: ‘Korea’ in Japan’s Early Colonial Travel Narratives and Guides, 1894-1914. Dimensions of Korea’s Modernity. The First Sangmyung University International Symposium in Korean Studies, Seoul, Korea, June 13, 2008.
“Fear, In/visible Bodies, and a Ghostly Matter in the Japanese Empire” for a panel “(De)Colonizing the Korean Body: The Colonial Politics of Malcontent, Miscegenation and Muscularity in the Japanese Empire.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, GA, April 4, 2008.
“Excavating Korean Bodies in Twentieth-Century Japan.” Korea Workshop 2007 Gender and Race in Korea. University of Illinois, November 2, 2007.
Chair and Presenter, paper “Malcontent Koreans (futei senjin): Colonial Representation of Korean Bodies in the Japanese Empire" for Panel “Body That Matters: History, Memory, and Corporeal Discourse in Twentieth-Century Korea and Japan.” The 56^th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, October 19-21, 2007.
Chair and discussant for panel discussion “Interracial Relations: Asians in America.” Asian Heritage Month Panel Discussion, Eastern Illinois University, April 12, 2007.
Chair and Discussant, “Phallocentric Asia?: Reading the Modes of Women’s Agency in Asia.” The 55^th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, October 20-22, 2006.
Invited Speaker, “Disaster, Rumor, and Empire Management in Tokyo, 1923.” City and State in Twentieth-Century China and Japan. The Alice Berline Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, October 12-13, 2006.
Invited Speaker, “Asia in EIU, EIU in Asia.” EIU Uncovered Lecture Series, University Board, Eastern Illinois University, October 4, 2006.
Invited speaker, “Syllabus and Course Planning Workshop.” The College Teaching Effectiveness Network, University of Illinois, May 18, 2006.
“Fear of Violence, Violence of Fear: Vigilantes, Self-Defense, and Colonial Violence in the Japanese Metropole, 1910s-1920s.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 6-9, 2006.
Discussant for “The Dual Career of ‘Ariran’: The Korean Resistance Anthem that Became a Japanese Pop Hit” by Taylor Atkins (Northern Illinois University). Korea Workshop The Koreas in a Transforming East Asia. University of Illinois, March 10, 2006.
“Sex Slavery, Feminism, and Colonial Legacies in Twentieth-Century East Asia.” Women’s History Month Symposium: Global Feminism, Eastern Illinois University, March 8, 2006.
“Coming of Age in Colonial Korea: Japanese and Korean Literary Vistas.” East Asia Workshop, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois, January 30, 2006.
“Narratives of Fear, Rumor, and Massacre in the Archives of the Japanese Empire.” Comparing Colonialisms Workshop Symposium The Thing Speaks for Itself: Articulating Evidence and Discourse in Colonial Studies. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, November 17-18, 2005.
“Undisciplining the Archives of Empire: Message, Medium, and Colonial Mayhem in the Japanese Metropole” The 54^th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, September 25, 2005.
Chair and discussant for panel, “Body, Space, and Performance.” The 54^th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, September 24, 2005.
Discussant for panel, “An Interdisciplinary Look at Minorities in Japan: Multiple Origins and Identities.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 1, 2005.
Guest Lecturer, “Myths of Asian Americans in the United States.” Multicultural Education, Interdisciplinary Studies, Fort Hays State University, February 24, 2005 and November 11, 2004.
Invited Speaker, “Landing on Job Market in Asian Studies.” Graduate Professional Development Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, October 7, 2004.
“Incomplete Project of Narrative Control: Commemoration of the Massacred Koreans in the Japanese Empire.” The 53^rd Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 2, 2004.
“Context in Contestation: Practice of Culture and the Politics of Rumors in the Japanese Empire.” The Sixth Annual Conference, Violence. Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Levis Faculty Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 1-2, 2004.
“Imagined Inversion of Colonial Violence: Earthquake, Rumors, and the Massacre of Koreans in the Japanese Empire, 1923.” (Old title: “For the Sake of the Japanese Public: Earthquake, Rumors and the Vigilante Violence in the Japanese Empire”) Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 4-7, 2004.
“Korean Problem or Koreans’ Problem?: Practicing and Narrating Colonial Violence in the Japanese Metropole.” Korea Workshop Transnational Korea. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 6, 2004.
“Practice of Violence, Competing Narratives: Choices of Interpretations in the Vigilante Massacre Trials in Japanese Empire, 1923.” The 4^th Global Conference Diversity within Unity: Cultures of Violence. St. Catherine's College, the University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 25-28, 2003.
”Kantōdaishinsai ji no Chōsenjin gyakusatsu jiken: Kankoku ni okeru kanren shiryō oyobi rekishi ninshiki ni tsuite no shiron” [The Massacred in the Metropole: Documenting and Representing the 1923 Colonial Violence in Korea], Kingendaishi shiryō benkyōkai [Empirical Research Group on Modern History], Bunka senta- arirang, Kawaguchi-shi, Saitama, Japan, July 22, 2003.
“Shokuminchi taisei ka ni okeru shūdan bōryoku no jissen to kaishaku: kantōdaishinsai ji no chōsenjin gyakusatsu jiken o meguru jikeidan no saiban o chūshin ni” [Practicing and Interpreting Collective Violence in Colonial Structure: The Vigilante Massacre Trials After the Great Kantō Earthquake in Imperial Japan], Chōsenshi kenkyūkai [Korean Historical Association of Japan], Senshū University, Tokyo, Japan, July 19, 2003 (in Japanese).
“Bunseki gainen to shite no ‘teikoku’/’teikoku shugi’—so no shinwa to genjitsu e no kentō”(Shohyō Cheguk juŭi: shinhwa wa hyŏnshil, 2000)” [“Empire” and “Imperialism” as Analytical Categories: A Critical Review of Imperialism: Myths and Reality by Ji-hyang Bak (Seoul National University Press, 2000).” Shokuminchi benkyōkai [Post-/Colonial Studies Association], The University of Tokyo, Japan, May 16, 2003 (in Japanese).
“Practice of Violence, Choices of Interpretations: The Vigilante Massacre Trial in Post-Earthquake Imperial Japan.” Modern Japanese History Workshop, Waseda University, Tokyo, May 2, 2003.
“ ‘Kōkyō’ no aidentiti- kōchiku ni okeru ‘kako’ zukuri to monogatari—1923 nen chōsenjin gyakusatsu jiken ni okeru jūsōteki kaishaku to bunkateki gensetsu o chūsin to shite” [Making of “History” and Narratives in the Construction of Collective/Public Identity (‘Kōkyō’): Contested Interpretations and Cultural Discourses in the 1923 Massacre of Koreans]. Kankoku chōsen bunka kenkyūshitsu [Division of Korean Studies], The University of Tokyo, January 28, 2003 (in Japanese).
“Competing Narratives, Contested Culture: Re-Membering the Colonized in the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake in the Japanese Empire.” Social Science Research Council Dissertation Workshop, Monterey, California, January 8-12, 2003.
Host for session, “Filipino entertainers working in US military camp towns in South Korea.” Korea Workshop 2003-2004 Transnational Korea. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, November, 2003.
Commentator to Theodore Hughes, “Reconstructing the ‘Revolution’ and the Specter of Coloniality: Ch’oe In-hun’s The Square and Voice of the Governor-General.” Korea Workshop 2002 Colonialism in Modern Korean History. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, September 6, 2002.
“Creation of the Past, Construction of Identity: The 1923 Massacre of Koreans in Japanese Politics of Memory.” Association for Asian Studies Dissertation Workshop Identity and Politics of Memory. Washington DC. April 2-4, 2002.
“Construction of the ‘Past’: Historical Knowledge Production on the 1923 Massacre of Koreans in Japanese Politics of Culture.” The Fifth Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference for Japanese Studies. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 16, 2002.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (selected)

· Organizer, Symposium “World War II Memories in Japan and Beyond.” Eastern Illinois University, November 7, 2009 (scheduled).

· Advisory Board Member, Teacher-Scholar: The Journal of the State Comprehensive University, Fort Hays State University, 2008-

· Organizing Committee Member, Central Illinois Asian Film Festival: Young in Japan, Asian Educational Media Service, The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.

· Faculty Mentor, Faculty Mentoring Circles Connection (new faculty mentoring program), The Office of Faculty Development, Eastern Illinois University, 2007-

· Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, History Department, Eastern Illinois University, 2007-

· Faculty Development Advisory Committee, Eastern Illinois University, 2006-

· University Committee, Asian Educational Media Service, The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006-

· Study Abroad Committee, History Department, Eastern Illinois University, 2006-

· Search Committee, History Department, Eastern Illinois University, 2008-9 and 2006-7

· Co-organizer, Asian Studies Colloquia, Eastern Illinois University, 2006-

· Organizing Committee, Asian Heritage Month, Eastern Illinois University, 2005-

· Organizer and Award Presenter, Asian Heritage Leadership Award Ceremony, Asian American Association and Asian Cinema Organization, Eastern Illinois University, December 4, 2006-

· Organizer, “Panel Discussion: Studying and Working Across the Pacific.” Charleston-Mattoon Room, MLK, Jr. Union, Eastern Illinois University, April 18, 2006-.

· Adviser, Asian American Association (Recognized Student Organization), Eastern Illinois University, 2006-

· Adviser, Asian Cinema Organization (RSO), Eastern Illinois University, 2005-

· Guest Lecture Committee, History Department, Eastern Illinois University, 2005-

· Organizer, Asian Film Series, Eastern Illinois University, 2005-

· Graduate Program Committee, Department of History, Eastern Illinois University, 2005-8

· Awards Committee, Department of History, Eastern Illinois University, 2005-8

· Organizer, Asian Studies Syllabus Workshop. Asian Studies Minor, Eastern Illinois University, Spring 2008

· Ethnic and Gender Studies Advisory Committee, Eastern Illinois University, 2007-8

· Elected Chair, Asian Studies Program, Eastern Illinois University, 2006-

· Organizer and moderator, “Graduate Mentoring: Challenges and Strategies.” The Office of Faculty Development, Eastern Illinois University, October 31, 2007

· Facilitator, “Teaching about Asia.” The 28^th Annual History Teachers Conference, (with Anne Prescott, Associate Director of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies and Susan Norris, Asian Educational Media Services, UIUC), Eastern Illinois University, October 11, 2007

· Panelist, “Mentor/Mentee Panel: The Faculty Circles Mentoring Connection.” New Faculty Orientation, Eastern Illinois University, August 8, 2007

· Advisor/Host, Midwest Asian American Students Union Leadership Conference, November 10-11, 2006

· Faculty participant, The Charleston Chew Program (faculty-students interaction initiative program), Academic Initiatives & Retention Committee and the Department of Housing and Dining Services, Eastern Illinois University, October 25, 2006

· Interpreter, Discussion session with Director Jong-bin Yoon of “The Unforgiven.” South Korean Film Festival, Asian Educational Media Services and the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois, Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL, September 29, 2006

· Organizer, South/Southeast Asian Film Festival, Eastern Illinois University, April, 2006

· Invited Speaker, East Asia Graduate Certificate Program Interdisciplinary Seminar: Colonialism in East Asia, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 30, 2006

· Facilitator, The 20^th Annual History Teachers Conference Challenges and Choices: Teaching History and the Social Studies in the Twenty-First Century (Session: Teaching about Contemporary Japan), Eastern Illinois University, November 3, 2005

· Assistant editor, Constructing Nationhood in Modern East Asia (conference volume), edited by Kai-wing Chow, Kevin M. Doak, and Poshek Fu. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2002

· EALC Department Representative, Korean Students Association, University of Illinois, 2001-2

· President, Graduate Korean Studies Association, University of Illinois, 1998-9

· Co-organizer, conference Korean & Korean-American Christianity, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Oct. 8-9, 1999

CREATIVE WORKS

· Volunteer for exhibition, Friendship Across Borders: Children's Drawings from East Asia and Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, November 5-7, 2003 (in conjunction with the “Korea Peace Day” commemoration promoting peaceful resolution of conflict in Korean peninsula)

· Assistant Curator for the Great Kantō Earthquake 80th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Kakareta chōsenjin gyakusatsu [The Massacre of Koreans Through Paintings]. Non-profit Organization Koryŏ Museum, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 20-October 14, 2003