JAEWOONG JEON [email protected] | (773) 573-4054 | Department of History,

EMPLOYMENT Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, Fall 2019--Spring 2021. - Social Science Teaching Fellow in the Department of History and the College

EDUCATION Ph.D., Department of History, University of Chicago (defended in Sep 2019). - Dissertation title: “Learning Liberation: Emergence of Capitalism in and Taiwan” - Dissertation committee: Bruce Cumings (chair), Kenneth Pomeranz, William H. Sewell, Jr., Mark Philip Bradley. - Exam fields: Modern Korean History, Critical Social Theory, International History. Academic Exchange Program, Department of History, UC Berkeley, Fall 2016 & Spring 2018. M.A. Social Sciences (Anthropology), University of Chicago, 2010. M.A. International Area Studies (East Asia), National University, 2008. B.A. Economics, Chung-Ang University, 2001.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Korea and Taiwan; history of capitalism; empire and colonialism in East Asia; social theory.

AWARDS AND HONORS External Dan David Prize Scholarship in Macro History, Tel Aviv University, 2019. Dorothy Rosenberg Phi Beta Kappa Travel Grant, American Historical Association, 2019. Chiang Ching-kuo Dissertation Fellowship, 2018-2019 (declined). Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (Seoul and Taipei), 2016-2017. Visiting Scholar, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, August-October 2017; October 2015-July 2016. Junior Fellow, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University, December 2016- August 2017. Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) in Japanese--Academic Year, 2014-2015.

University of Chicago Von Holst Prize Lectureship, Department of History, Spring, 2019 (declined). Michael and Ling Markovitz Dissertation Year Fellowship, Division of the Social Sciences, 2018-19. CEAS Dissertation Fellowship, Committee on Korean Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, 2018- 2019; 2017-2018 (declined). Conference Travel Grant, Department of History, 2017. Jaewoong Jeon

Conference Travel Grant: Korean Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, 2017. Research Grant (ten months in Taiwan), Division of the Social Sciences, 2015-2016. Chinese Studies Pre-Dissertation Research Grant, Center for East Asian Studies, 2015. Professional Training Grant (research in Japan), Center for East Asian Studies, Summer, 2014.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant, The College, University of Chicago “The Emergence of Capitalism in Early Modern Europe,” (Spring 2015) - Prepared for and led a weekly discussion section for a class of 25 students.

Teaching Intern, The College, University of Chicago “Colonizations II: Asia and the Pacific,” (Winter 2015) - Designed the syllabus with the instructor; led two sessions as main instructor.

Teaching Intern, The College, University of Chicago “Self, Culture, and Society 1-2-3,” (Fall 2013, Winter 2013, Spring 2014) - Led several sessions as main instructor for a year-long social science theory core curriculum course.

BOOK TRANSLATION Korean translation of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better. London: Allen Lane, 2009. (Published in Seoul, Korea in 2012).

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS “Japanophobia and Anti-Capitalism in Korea,” The Legacy of Moishe Postone Conference, University of Chicago, February 15, 2019. “Resistance,” LKSF Modern China Seminar, UC Berkeley, March 2, 2018. “Sweet Returns: Sugar Capitalism in 1950s and Taiwan” at the panel The Cold War and East Asian Developmental States, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 17, 2017. “Subsumption,” LKSF Modern China Seminar, UC Berkeley, December 8, 2016. “Polling and Democratic Politics in Taiwan” (panel discussant), Conference on Election Polling and Democratic Consolidation in Taiwan and Korea, Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, December 1, 2016. Dissertation outline, Korean History Workshop, Korea Foundation, Seoul, July 22, 2015. “Roundtable on Research Methods, Theses, and Seminar Papers” (panel discussant), East Asia: Transregional Histories Workshop, University of Chicago, October 23, 2014.

SERVICE AND OTHER EXPERIENCES Conference Assistant, Beyond the Second International Conference, Chicago, June 27- 28, 2013. Journal Peer Review, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2012.

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Research Assistant, Institute of Classical Studies, The Academy of Korean Studies, South Korea, February 2006-January 2007. Editorial Board, Dohol Times, February 2000-December 2001. - Quarterly academic journal published in South Korea.

LANGUAGES Korean (native), Chinese (fluent), Japanese (advanced reading).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, Social Science History Association.

REFERENCES

Bruce Cumings Kenneth Pomeranz Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished University Professor of Modern Chinese Service Professor in History and the College History and in the College University of Chicago University of Chicago (773) 834-1818 (773) 834-4247 [email protected] [email protected]

William H. Sewell Jr. Mark Philip Bradley Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Professor of International History and the History College University of Chicago University of Chicago (773) 702-0900 (773) 702-3558 [email protected] [email protected]

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