Young-Sun Hong
- Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989)
- Research Interests
A native of Korea, I am a specialist in modern Germany with an emphasis on transnationalism, decolonization and the North-South divide, transnational feminist studies, and critical race theory.
I am currently working on a book manuscript entitled The Third World in the Two Germanys. Development, Migration, and the Global Cold War. Global health represents a major node of the transnational linkages of peoples and cultures of the newly independent Afro-Asian countries, West Germany and East Germany during this period, and in this book, I explore the theoretical framework and methodological issues of transnationalism by placing post-1945 German history in the context of the Cold War, decolonization, and South-North migration.
My first book was part of an ongoing debate over German modernity, and in 2005 I followed this up with an article in Social History, which addressed the question of the extent to which Nazi Germany could be described as a ‘welfare’ state.
My teaching interests are broad and interdisciplinary. Over the past ten years, I have taught courses on transnationalism, Europe and the global South, and gender and race in the European metropolis.
In 2006-7 I was a member of the program committee of the German Studies Association. In recent years I have been a fellow at the Center for the Contemporary History (Germany), the Max-Planck-Institute for History (Germany), and the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University. I have also received several fellowships from major organizations, including the German Marshall Fund, the SSRC, and the German Academic Exchange Service. I have also served on the selection committees of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the SSRC, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as well as on the prize committee for the Conference Group for the Central European History.
- Publications
Welfare, Modernity and the Weimar State, 1919-1933 (Princeton University Press, 1998)
"'The Benefits of Health Must Spread Among All'. International Solidarity, Health, and Race in the East German Encounter with the Third World," Katherine Pence and Paul Betts, eds., Socialist Modern. East German Everyday Culture and Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008), pp. 183-210.
“Migrantischer Transnationalismus: Geteilte Geschichten zwischen West-Deutschland und Südkorea im Spannungsfeld von Rassifizierung und Gender (Gender, Race and Migrant Transnationalism: Shared Histories of Belonging and Defference)” in Dimitria Clayton, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai,Kien Nghi Ha, eds., Re/Visionen. Postkoloniale Perspektiven von People of Color auf Rassismus, Kulturpolitik und Widerstand in Deutschland (Berlin: Unrast, 2007), pp. 73-85.
“Kalter Krieg in der Ferne. Dekolonisierung, Hygienediskurse und der Kampf der DDR und der USA um die Dritte Welt" (Cold War Away from Home: Decolonization, Hygienic Discourse and the Culture War between East Germany and the United States for the Hearts and Minds of the Third World)” in Uta Balbier and Christiane Rösch, eds., Umworbener Klassenfeind. Das Verhältnis der DDR zu den USA (Berlin: Ch. Links, 2006), pp. 77-95.
“Neither Singular Nor Alternative: Narratives of Modernity and Welfare in Germany, 1870-1945,” Social History 30:2 (May 2005), pp. 133-153.
“The Challenge of Transnational History”H-German Forum on Transnationalism (January 2006).
“Cigarette Butts and the Building of Socialism in East Germany,” Central European History 35:3 (October, 2002), pp. 327-44.
- yhong@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
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