Alyssa Park
Fellow
Professional Affiliation
Associate Professor of History, University of Iowa
Expert Bio
Alyssa Park is associate professor of history at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include borderlands, transnational migration, and empire in East Asia, including Russia. She is the author of鈥 鈥(Cornell University Press, 2019), which examines how questions of sovereignty鈥攃laims over land and subjects鈥攂ecame a central concern to multiple states as they confronted the unprecedented mobility of Koreans. Based on sources from Korea, the Russian Far East, and Manchuria, it explores the history of the Korean community across Russia and China, illuminating how this sensitive border region and people were claimed by surrounding states. She is currently working on a book on migration and population displacement in the two Koreas during the critical interregnum (1945-1950) before the Korean War. Dr. Park鈥檚 research has been supported by the 浪花直播 Center, Kennan Institute, American Council of Learned Societies / Mellon, Yale Council on East Asian Studies, and Fulbright-Hays. She received her AB from Princeton University and PhD from Columbia University.
浪花直播 Center Project
Homeward: Korean Refugees and the Politics of Occupation, Division and War, 1945-50
Major Publications
Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019; Weatherhead East Asian Institute Series).
鈥淢aking 鈥楻efugees鈥: Repatriates, Migrants, and Institutions of Care in Liberated South Korea, 1945-1950.鈥 Seoul Journal of Korean Studies 36 no. 2 (Dec. 2023): 621-54
"Navigating Northeast Asia in Vladivostok: A Review of the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East," Dissertation Reviews, Oct. 31, 2013.
Previous Terms
January 1-July 15, 2014
