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 an Associate Professor of Practice in Asian and Asian American Studies,
where she directs the Korean Studies Program. 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.
