Jaeeun KIM is Korea Foundation Endowed Associate Professor of Sociology and Professor of Law (by Courtesy) at the University of Michigan. She is a political sociologist and law and society scholar, studying race/ethnicity/nationalism and migration/citizenship from a comparative-historical and transnational perspective. Kim is the author of an award-winning book, Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea (Stanford University Press 2016). Her article “Migration-Facilitating Capital: A Bourdieusian Theory of International Migration” (Sociological Theory 2018) won the Theory Prize from the American Sociological Association. She is currently working on her new book project about the asylum-seeking of unauthorized migrants on religious grounds, based on her...

Daham CHONG is professor of history at Sangmyung University in Seoul. Chong earned his Ph.D. in Korean history at Korea University. He has been rewriting early Chosŏn history as highlighted within the nationalist narrative of South Korean historiography by using postcolonial and transnational approaches. He has been reinterpreting the major projects of King Sejong in the fifteenth Century, including the Hunmin chŏngŭm vernacular alphabet, by rethinking their inseparable and translative relationship to Yuan, Ming, Jurchens, and Japan. Also He has been rewriting post-1945 South Korean historiorgraphy on Koryŏ and Chosŏn based on a transnational approach by historicizing it within the...