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Lim, Sungyun A.

Associate Professor

Positions

Associate Professor, History

Research Areas

Research

keywords

history of colonial Korea, Japanese colonial legal policy, history of women and family in Korea and Japan, law and gender

Publications

selected publications

book
- Rules of the House Family Law and Domestic Disputes in Colonial Korea 2018
chapter
- Defying Claims of Incompetence Women's Lawsuits over Separate Property Rights in Colonial Korea. 43-62. 2021
- Women on the Loose: Colonial Household System and Family Anxiety in Korea 2013
journal article
- The state's sexuality: Prostitution and postcolonial state building in South Korea. Asian Journal of Women's Studies. 250-252. 2025
- Disputes over Burial Mountains. Journal of Asian Studies. 258-278. 2024
- Imperial Romance: Fictions of Colonial Intimacy in Korea, 1905-1945. American Historical Review. 1056-1057. 2023
- Adopting in the Shadows: False Registration as a Method of Adoption in Postcolonial South Korea. Positions. 495-521. 2021
- Constitutional Transition and the Travail of Judges: The Courts of South Korea. Journal of Asian Studies. 746-747. 2021
- book review, Hyaeweol Choi, Gender Politics at Home and Abroad, Cambridge University Press, 2020 2021
- Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 506-512. 2020
- Affection and Assimilation: Concubinage and the Ideal of Conjugal Love in Colonial Korea, 1922-38. Gender & History. 461-+. 2016

Background

education and training

Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley 2011
M.A., University of California-Berkeley 2005
M.A., Seoul Nat Univ (Korea) 2001
B.A., Seoul Nat Univ (Korea) 1999

awards and honors

Exceptional Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, conferred by Graduate School, 2026

International Activities

geographic focus

Asia Continent
Japan Country
Singapore Country
South Korea Country