PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Jeanhyoung SOH is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science from Seoul National University, with her dissertation titled "The Relation between Power and Authority of Kings in Late Chosŏn Dynasty: Interpretations of the concept of Hwangkuk (皇極)." In 2018, she was a Henry Luce postdoctoral fellow at the Ricci Institute of Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco. she has taught Premodern East Asian history, the intellectual history of the Joseon Period, and political thought in East Asia. She is focusing as an intellectual historian, on the political language and rhetoric of the 18th and 19th centuries. Her research interests include the Jesuit translations of Coimbra texts in China, the translation of Western political texts in Asia, and the reception of Western geographical knowledge by Korean intellectuals and their reconstructed worldview.