Joanne Miyang Cho
Professor • Department of

Edited Books:
--(with Lee M. Roberts and Sang Hwan Seong) Transnationalism and Migration in Global Korea: History, Politics, and Sociology, 1910 to the Present (Routledge. In print)
--East-Asian German Cinema: The Transnational Screen, 1919 to the Present Centuries (Routledge, 2021)
--Musical Entanglements between Germany and East Asia: Transnational Affinity in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
--German-East Asian Encounters and Entanglements: Affinity in Culturea and Politics since 1945 (Routledge, 2021)
--Sino-German Encounters and Entanglements: Transnational Perspectives, 1890-1950 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
--Transnational Encounters between Germany and East Asia since 1900 (Routledge, 2018)
--(with Lee Roberts) Transnational Encounters between Germany and Korea: Affinity in Culture and Politics in the Long Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
--(with Douglas McGetchin) Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia: Transnational Perspectives, 1800-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
--(with Lee Roberts & Christian Spang) Transcultural Encounters between Germany and Japan: Perceptons of Partnership in the NIneteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
--(with Eric Kurlander & Douglas McGetchin) Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India: Kindred Spirts int he Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Routledge, 2014)
--(with David Crowe) Germany and China: Transcultural Encounters since 1800 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014).
She has also published several book chapters and articles in Asian German Studies and on the politics of civilization within the work of a number of twentieth-century German intellectuals. She is currently working on German-Jewish refugees in Shanghai and Karl Jaspers’ Global History of Humankind.
Current Projects:
-- (co-edited with Lee Roberts). Korean Culture in the Global Age: K-Literature, K-Film, and K-Pop (under contract with Routledge)
--(co-edited with Eric Kurlander and Doug McGetchin). Shelter from the Storm?: German Jews and Asians in the Shadow of the Holocaust, 1930-1950 (under review)
--(Co-authored with Wenyan Gu and Birgit Maier-Katkin): German-speaking Jewish Refugees and the Chinese in Shanghai, 1933-1949: An Interdisciplinary Analysis (under review)
In addition, Prof. Cho has received several fellowships, including the Fulbright Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for History, the Leibniz Institute for European History, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the NEH Seminar, and Seoul National University- Kyujangkak Overseas Publishing Grant.
Languages (other than English)
Korean GermanDegrees
Specialization
German-East Asian Studies; Modern German History
Representative Publications
Transnational Encounters between Germany and East Asia since 1900;
New York, NY; Routledge;
2018
https://www.routledge.com/Transnational-Encounters-between-Germany-and-East-Asia-since-1900/Cho/p/book/9780815378402
Transnational Encounters between Germany and Korea: Affinity in Culture and Politics in the Long Twentieth Century;
New York, NY; Palgrave MacMillan;
2018
https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781349952236
Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia: Transnational Perspectives since 1800;
New York, NY; Palgrave MacMillan;
2017
https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319404387
Germany and China: Transnational Encounters since the Eighteenth Century;
New York, NY; Palgrave MacMillan;
2014
https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137438461
Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India: Kindred Spirits in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries;
New York, NY; Routledge;
2013
https://www.routledge.com/Transcultural-Encounters-between-Germany-and-India-Kindred-Spirits-in/Cho-Kurlander-McGetchin/p/book/9780415844697
Awards and Honors
09/01/2015
Notable Courses Taught
Nazi Germany; the Holocaust; Nazis, Jews and Asians; Modern European Cultural History; 20th Century Europe