Sunkyu Lee
I am a historian of early modern East Asia and interested in the intersections among war, trade and cartography. My dissertation analyzes how maps created a new spatial imagination of a political boundary, from a more porous to a more definite borderline in China's inland and maritime frontiers from the 15th to the 17th centuries. I also have a strong interest in using digital media in research and teaching based on my training in the graduate certificate programs of writing pedagogy and digital humanities at UCLA. I received my B.A.s in International Relations from Seoul National University (SNU), Korea and M.A.s in Political Science from SNU.
Field of Study
Subfield
China
Grants and Awards
Selected awards include Dissertation Year Fellowship; Edward A. Dickson Fellowship in the History of Art; and Collegium University Teaching Fellowship.
Conference Presentations
Recent conference and workshop presentations include the following:
- “Violence at Sea and Territoriality in Late Ming-Qing China” (a presenter, the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Seattle, WA (Virtual), 23 March 2021)
“Wall-building and Making of River Boundaries in Mid-fifteenth Century Chosŏn Korea,” (a panel organizer and a presenter, the 13th Kyujanggak International Symposium, Seoul, Korea (Virtual), 6 Nov 2020).
“The Grand Narrative of the Great Wall in the Mid-Sixteenth Century China,” (a presenter, the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies Scholars Forum, Los Angeles, CA (Virtual), 15 Oct 2020)
“Mapping Coastal Waters against Piracy in Sixteenth Century China,” (a panel organizer and a presenter, the Annual Conference of the AAS, Denver, CO, Mar 22, 2019)
Advisors
Richard von Glahn