Joanne Miyang Cho

Candidate statement

Joanne Miyang Cho (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1993) is Professor of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey. She also taught at Hope College and Ewha Womans University in South Korea (Visiting Lecturer). Her experiences include departmental chair, graduate director, series co-editor for “Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies,” a Columbia University Seminar chair/co-chair, and overseas representative of Korean Historians of Germany. She has been involved in the GSA in the following capacities: the conference Program Director (2019, 2020), a member of the conference Program Committee (2016, 2017), and a co-coordinator for the Asian German Studies Network (2017-present). Since 2012, she has organized/co-organized nearly sixty panels and roundtables on Asian German topics. She has edited/co-edited Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India (2014), Germany and China since 1800 (2014), Transnational Encounters between Germany and Japan (2016), Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia, 1800-2000 (2016), Transnational Encounters between Germany and Korea (2018), and Germany and East Asia since 1900 (2018). She has published two dozen book chapters and articles on Asian German relations and the politics of civilization and on a number of twentieth-century German intellectuals. She is currently working on two book projects: Karl Jaspers’ global history of humankind and German-speaking Jewish refugees in Shanghai. Fellowships include the Fulbright Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for History, the Leibniz Institute for European History, and the DAAD.