I am a historian of modern Korea and currently an assistant professor in the Department of Korean History at Korea University. After receiving my Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2022, I spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.

Located at the intersection of history and cultural studies, my work uses largely unexplored Korean-language texts and archives to write new cultural and social histories of war, displacement, and mobilization in divided Korea. My first book project examines the role of cultural production in South Korean counterinsurgency, focusing on the construction of militarized spaces of settlement and internment in Korea and Vietnam. My broader research interests include migration and borders, militarization and militarism, ideology and visual culture, gender and family history, and the cultural and intellectual history of violence. I have published peer-reviewed articles in Korea Journal, the Journal of Asian Studies, the Journal of Korean Studies, and Acta Koreana.

I can be contacted at tmryan428 [at] gmail.com.