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Sharon Kingsland
Department Chair

History of Science and Technology
3505 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

phone 410-516-7501
danielle@jhu.edu

Min Suh Son
Assistant Professor

The Bo Jung Soon Young Kim Professor of East Asian Science and Technology

B.A. University of Pennsylvania, M.A. Yonsei University, Ph.D. UCLA

History of East Asian technology; history of electrificaiton; 19th century Korean Enlightenment; technologies of surveillance and colonial cities; history of cities, space, and society.

CURRENT PROJECTS: 

Collaborative translation of Soyu kyonmun [Observations on a Journey to the West] by Yu Kilchun (published 1895).  A seminal work representing the Korean Enlightenment thought of reformist intellectual Yu Kilchun.  Funded by the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS). September 2008 – March 2011.

Contact Information:
Telephone: 410-516-7507
E-mail: minsuh@jhu.edu

Conference Papers:

“Viral Cultures: Digital Innovations in the 21^st Century Korea” Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), Chicago.  March 2009.

 “Urbanism in Colonial Korea” for Science, Technology and Modernity: Colonial Cities in Asia, 1890-1945, Johns Hopkins Workshops in Comparative History of Science and Technology, Baltimore. January 16-17, 2009.

 “Beyond Technological Orientalism: New Perspectives in Writing the History of East Asian Technology” 50^th Annual Meeting for The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Lisbon, Portugal.  October 10-14, 2008.

“Policing the Colony: Technologies of Discipline and Surveillance in Colonial Korea” 12^th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (12^th ICHSEA), Baltimore.  July 14-18, 2008.

 “Manufacturing Cultures: Imperial Spectacles of Late Nineteenth Century Seoul” Mutual Perception and Conceptual Framing of Modern Korean History sponsored by The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, in conjunction with Korea University.  Washington D.C., February 14, 2007.

“The Technology of Protest: Streetcar Riots, Resistance and Race”, paper presented on panel Problematizing Technological Appropriation at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Annual Meeting, Montreal.  October 11-13, 2007.

Recent Publications:

Min Suh Son, “Enlightenment and Electrification: The Introduction of Electric Light, Telegraph and Streetcars in Late 19^th Century Korea” (chapter) in Reform Projects and Modernization during the Great Han Empire Period. John Duncan and Kim Dohyung, eds.  Published by Korean Research Foundation in association with Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University, 2007.

Min Suh Son, Review: Kim Kunbae.  Han’guk kundae kwahak kisul illok ui ch’ulhyon [The Emergence of Modern Korean Scientific and Technological Manpower].  Seoul: Munhak kwa chis?ngsa, 2005.  In Journal of East Asian Science and Technology: An International Journal (2007) 1: 267-269.