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Kyoungjin Bae joined the Department of History in Spring 2019. As a historian of late imperial China, she is interested in understanding Chinese history from the perspectives of Eurasian connections, the history of science and technology, and visual and material culture. Prior to joining Kenyon, Kyoungjin held two postdoctoral fellowships at the Liberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan and at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. She is currently working on her first book manuscript, titled "The Flowing Mechanism: Furniture, Craft, and Knowledge in Sino-European Exchanges, 1700-1850."
Late imperial China, the history of science and technology, visual and material culture, early modern
Sino-European exchanges, global history.
2016 — Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University
2012 — Master of Arts from Columbia University
2006 — Bachelor of Arts from Yonsei Univ, Seoul, Korea