HK Research Professor

 

History

Contemporary Western History (Russian and Central Asian History)

Research Interests: Human Right Movement, Migration History of Russian Jew and Koryoin, Islam in Central Asia, Museum studies, Gulag

Professional Experience

HK+ Research Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Institute of History and Culture (2018~2022)
Research Fellow, Seoul National University Asia Center (2014~2018)
Research Professor, Ewha Womans University (2010~2013)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Moscow State University. Majored in History.
M.A. Department of History, Moscow State University. Majored in History.
B.A. Department of History, Ewha Womans University. Majored in History.

• “From ‘the Wife of a Traitor to the Motherland’ to a Soviet Citizen: The Imprisoned Women’s Struggle for the Recognition of in the ‘ALZHIR’ Gulag,” Slav newspaper 38(4), 2023.
• “The Influx of the Ukrainian War Refugees and the Expansion of the ‘Koryoin Village’ in Gwangju,” Homo Migrans (Migration, Colonialism, Racism) 28, 2023.
• “The Rights Movement of the ‘Disabled’ in the Soviet Union in 1970s and 1980s,” The Western History Review 155, 2022.
• “The Reaction of the Central Asian Elites to the Building of the Soviet Union Government and the Dynamics of the Nation-Republic’s Border Making” Slav newspaper 36(4), 2021.
• “The Reinterpretation of Contact Zone through the Exhibition in Uzbekistan ‘the National Memorial Museum of the Victims of Repression” after the dissolution USSR Korean Journal of European Integration,” Korean Journal of European Integration 12(3), 2021.
• Strategies for Subregionalism and Transborder Mobility in/around North Korea-China-Russia Border Area. R&J Books, 2020.
• Historical and Cultural Experience of Islam in Central Asia. Zininzin, 2019.
• “The Cultural Encounter and Hybridity in the Funeral Practices of Soviet Koreans in Central Asia,” Journal of history and culture 67, 2018.
• “Repatriation of Crimean Tatars in Central Asia: From a unique national movement to a universal human rights movement,” The Western History Review 130, 2016.
• “The Exodus of Soviet Jews: Struggle for the Emigration Freedom,” The Western History Review, 2011
• ““The Prague Spring” in 1968 and the Resistance Movement in the Soviet Union,” The Western History Review. 106. 2010.