EAP Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
The LB Korean Studies Postdoctoral Scholar research fellowships in the Einaudi Center's East Asia Program at Cornell University aim to advance scholarship, teaching, outreach, and engagement with the general public for a deeper understanding of Korea in the contemporary world.
Explore this page to learn more about EAP's Korean studies postdoc program and how to apply.
Program Overview
The program is open to scholars whose research and teaching focuses on Korea, especially with a comparative, global, or interdisciplinary perspective. Applicants can have backgrounds in any humanities discipline, broadly conceived. In addition to traditional Korean studies fields, such as literature and history, we also envision Korea-focused work that transcends conventional disciplinary, temporal, and regional boundaries in fields including but not limited to material culture, environmental and “blue” humanities, Indigenous studies, gender studies, and Asian American studies.
As a Korean studies postdoc, you'll have the opportunity to:
- Carry out research in residence on the Cornell Ithaca campus.
- Attend, organize, and convene Korean studies events and activities.
- Participate in EAP and Einaudi Center activities that relate to your work or interests.
- Collaborate with Cornell faculty members and researchers.
- Access all resources available to Cornell postdoctoral associates.
While not required, teaching activities may be arranged.
How to Apply
The application for academic year 2027–28 opens soon! Please check back.
Current and Past Scholars
Jeongsu Shin (2025–27)
As an ethnographer of Korea, Shin’s work has been shaped by interdisciplinary conversations in environmental studies, Asian studies, and science and technology studies.
Her book project, Worldly Ecologies: Landscape, History, and Decolonial Environmentalism on Jeju Island, examines the rise of environmental social movements and ecological research on Jeju Island, South Korea. These have informed new articulations of Jeju identity anchored in a long history of relations connecting humans, non-humans, and the landscape itself in the making of Jeju ecologies.
Soyi Kim (2022–24)
Soyi Kim was the inaugural LB Korean Studies Research Scholar in the East Asia Program. She is currently an assistant professor in the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven in Belgium.
Kim received her doctorate in cultural studies and comparative literature with a minor in art history from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. Her research areas include cultural and media studies, art history, history of medicine, gender studies, East Asian studies, and Korean and Korean diasporic studies.
Her first book project is Against Health: Feminist Art in Contemporary South Korea and the Korean Diaspora, which examines the troubling rhetoric and image of the body that Korean and Korean diasporic artists critically employ as a tool for their critique of the notion of public health.
While at Cornell, she developed a second project on biophobia in Korean and Korean diasporic art. She organized Biophobia, a transnational symposium on Korean studies held at Cornell in May 2023, with the support of the Association of Asian Studies and Central New York Humanities Corridor.
Korean Studies Programming
EAP postdocs lead programming that aligns with their Korean studies interests, collaborating with campus partners to organize film series, art exhibitions, symposia, research talks, and invited speaker series.
Korean Film Series
EAP supports Korean film screenings at Cornell Cinema. Spring 2027 films will be announced soon.
Soni Kum Symposium
Soni Kum's collaborative performance and video project, Morning Dew, at Cornell's Johnson Museum.
