GWIKS is excited to announce our new Monthly US-ROK Policy Brief Series. This series is jointly published by GWIKS and the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS) at Seoul National University. You can see the inaugural edition featuring an article by Sydney Seiler on “The US Presidential Election in 2024 and the Future of Denuclearization” here. 

The GW Institute for Korean Studies is proud to announce that Professor Jisoo M. Kim, Director of GW Institute for Korean Studies, has been selected as a Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellow for the 2024–2025 academic year. The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known as Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary exploration. It brings students, scholars, artists, and practitioners together to pursue curiosity-driven research, expand human understanding, and grapple with questions that demand insight from across disciplines.

Jisoo M. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University. Her research interests lie in law, gender and sexuality, emotions, affect, and forensic medicine. At Radcliffe, she will conduct research at the Schlesinger Library and work on a book that investigates the criminalization of heterosexual intimacies and unequal power structures in marriage in Korean history.