Her research centers on social theory and gender law,
with particular interests in poststructuralism and postcolonialism.
Exploring the dynamic changes between individual practice and social structures,
she has studied the issue of the Japanese military "comfort women," survivor testimony, and collective memory.
She has also conducted extensive research on reproductive rights,
situating them within questions of the birth and growth of human life.
Beyond these, her interests extend to traditions and customary practices in Korean family law,
as well as methods and theory in the sociology of law.

Her primary research interests include transformations in gender order,
the politics of emotion, masculinities, and the theorization of peace feminism.
Her recent research, in particular, critically examines how, beyond gender essentialism in peace discourse,
women's participation in the security and military sectors comes to be articulated as gender equality,
and how the incorporation of human rights and humanitarian sensibilities into security
and military practices brings feminist language and values to the fore, in a complex process
that simultaneously undermines feminism.
Through this analysis, she explores how gender and sexuality norms shape peace discourse.

My research addresses modern and contemporary Japanese history, women's history, and gender/feminist studies, integrating gender with class, ethnicity, and sexuality rather than treating them separately. My work traces licensed prostitution, reproductive control, and military sexual violence in Japan, and Cold War–era women's movements across East and Southeast Asia. Recent projects examine harms inflicted on civilians by Allied occupation forces (1945–1952) and, currently, the social history of the Korean War from the perspective of women and children in Japan as a wartime rear base.

A researcher specializing in modern Korean history and gender history. Her research interests lie in examining the intersections of colonialism, gender, humanitarianism, and human rights, with a focus on modern Korea and East Asia.

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Her research interests include conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV); the forced recruitment of children associated with armed forces and armed groups (CAAFAG) and their reintegration; gender and security; international human rights law and international humanitarian law; and feminist research methodologies. Using qualitative research methods, she examines survivor-centered justice, institutional responses to violence, and the intersections of gender, conflict, and international law in humanitarian and post-conflict settings.

Her research interests include transnational feminism, critical Korean studies, carceral systems, care, postcolonial and decolonial feminisms, and reproductive justice.

Her research focuses on Korean literature, culture, and history from a feminist perspective.

Her research focuses on colonial mobilization, Korean Class B/C war criminals, postwar responsibility, and historical memory. Drawing on archival materials from Japan and records by those directly involved, she empirically examines the persistence of colonialism, postwar settlement processes, state violence, and historical justice. She also seeks to expand the scope of her research by incorporating materials from Indonesia and the Netherlands.

Specializing in social history and historical sociology, she has researched Japanese war crimes, including the Japanese military “comfort women” issue, and currently studies the Allied war crimes trials and the postwar order.

Specializing in modern and contemporary Chinese history and East Asian history, she studies China’s policies toward war criminals and war crimes trials, handwritten statements by Japanese war criminals, the Japanese military “comfort women” issue, war crimes and postwar justice, and the politics of memory. Her recent research draws on previously unpublished primary sources from China, Japan, and the United States to examine the historical significance of the East Asian international order and postwar settlements during the Cold War. She also explores war and violence, human rights, and peacebuilding from a historical perspective.

I am a historian and gender studies scholar, and my research lies at the intersection of history and gender studies. I am currently working on two research projects: one on sexual violence and the other menstruation. In my research on sexual violence, I focus on the adjudication of wartime sexual violence in war crimes trials, as well as the commemoration and representation of rape victims. My research on menstruation examines the medicalization of menstrual health and the representation of menstruation and sanitary products in magazines from the Meiji period to the present day.

Her research examines how Korea’s historical experience under Japanese colonial rule shapes Korean understandings of Israel’s colonial rule over Palestine. She also explores the Palestinian liberation movement as a lens through which to reinterpret Korea’s liberation movement in contemporary terms.

She has completed the coursework for a PhD in Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research interests include international relations, law and society, and post-conflict justice, with a critical focus on transnational legal mobilization in the context of global social justice. She examines how local social movements use law and judicial institutions across national borders to address injustices that are difficult to resolve within a single nation-state, including colonial legacies, war crimes, and environmental conflicts. Her doctoral dissertation analyzes the decolonial dynamics of transnational reparations movements through litigation seeking redress for the Japanese military “comfort women” in Japan, the United States, and South Korea. Drawing on fieldwork conducted since 2023, she examines how these movements navigate tensions between global human rights norms and jurisdictional constraints under international and domestic law.

Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Korean gender history, disability history, and the histories of minorities. She examines the history of violations of sexual and reproductive rights in twentieth-century Korea, including the Japanese military “comfort women” issue and the forced sterilization of persons with disabilities. She is particularly interested in documenting the historical traces of resistance created by “ordinary people” who challenged such violations.