Faculty Directors
Joy S. Kim is an assistant professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton 
University who specializes in the cultural and social history of early modern Korea. Her research interests include historiography, comparative slavery and social distinctions, and visual and material culture. Kim is currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled “Representing Slavery: Class and Status in Late Chosŏn Korea.” She came to Princeton in 2006 after receiving a B.A. in history from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in East Asian history from Columbia University, and serving as a postdoctoral associate at Yale University's Council on East Asian Studies.
Steven Chungis an assistant professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton 
University. He is a specialist in modern Korean cultural studies and is interested in film and critical theory. His teaching areas include Korean film and literature and East Asian film and cultural studies. Chung joined the Princeton faculty after earning a B.A. from the University of Toronto, an M.A. from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. in the East Asian languages and literatures from the University of California, Irvine.
