Professional Affiliation

Stanford University

Expert Bio

Yumi Moon received her BA and MA in Political Science and International Relations from Seoul National University. She came to the US in 1998 as a visiting fellow of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and finished her PhD in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University. She is an associate professor teaching modern Korean history in the Department of History at Stanford University. She is the author of Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896-1910 (Cornell University Press, 2013), which was translated into Japanese and published by Akashi Shoten in 2018. Her second monograph, tentatively entitled Toward a Free State: Imperial Shift and the Making of Post-Colonial South Korea, 1937-1950, will investigate Korea’s transition from the wartime colonial period to the US occupation.