Heejeong Sohn, PhD
Director, Korean Studies Program
Director, NSLI-Y Korean Language and Culture
Ph.D. Stony Brook University, 2014
Geographical Areas:Korea, East Asia, Korea-US
Topic Areas:Modern & contemporary history of Korea; photography and visual studies; American missionaries in Korea; gender and sexuality; history of Korean language; Korean language pedagogy
Office: N5520 Center for Korean Studies; 1122 Humanities
Email: heejeong.sohn@stonybrook.edu
Brief Bio:
Dr. Heejeong Sohn is currently a Professor of Practice in Asian and Asian American Studies, where she
directs the Korean Studies Program as well as the Center for Korean Studies. Since
2011, she has significantly expanded the program through innovative curriculum design
and global study-abroad pathways. Trained as a historian of modern Korea, her research
focuses on late Chosŏn and early modern Korea, with particular interests in visual
culture, gender, religion, and the making of modernity. She also examines language
practices and the cultural and political dynamics surrounding the division between
North and South Korea.
An accomplished grant writer, she has secured multimillion-dollar funding, including major federal awards and initiatives from the Academy of Korean Studies, advancing both scholarship and the institutional growth of Korean Studies at Stony Brook University.
