Joanne Cho

Joanne Miyang CHO is a Professor at the History Department. She specializes in Asian-German Studies and modern German history. Her teaching experience includes: Visiting lecturer at the International Summer School, Ewha Womans University (South Korea, 2018); Assistant Professor, Hope College, (1992-1995). Her administrative experience at WPU includes: Departmental chair (2011-2017), acting Departmental Chair (2017-2018), and Graduate Director (2018-2019). Her experience at the German Studies Association includes: Conference Program Director (2019 & 2020) anda member of the Executive Council (2021-2023). She has served as series co-editor for “Palgrave Studies in Asian German Studies” since 2015.

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.

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