Hyaeweol Choi is a professor of Korean studies, religious studies and gender studies and holds the C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies at the University of Iowa. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, religion and transnational history. She is the author of numerous books, including Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea (2020), New Women in Colonial Korea (2013), and Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (2009). She is a co-author of Gender in Modern East Asia: An Integrated History (2016), and is a co-editor of Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific (2014) and Korean Women: A Sourcebook (2017).

His research interests include popular culture, Asian urbanism, Korean popular music and cinema, East Asian political economy, development studies, international development cooperation, and comparative welfare state.

Some of her research interests include South Korean youth and politics and civic use of internet.

Cultural history of modern Korean society. His research and teaching interests include narratives, memory, media, social relations, and Cold War/post-Cold War culture

Her research interests are U.S.-Korea diplomatic/cultural/intellectual interactions, 1866-1965, Korean American students, 1884-1960, and “Americanism” in East Asia, 1920-1945.

His research interests include Korean and Japanese literature, film and media, melodrama, humanism and its critiques and translation.

Research interests include Korean anthropology/folklore/history, ritual, festival, tourism, heritage studies, shamanism, Buddhism, happiness and the wellness industry.