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Inga Diederich

Title

Assistant Professor of History

Department

History

Information

Office Hours

Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30 - 2:00 PM or by appointment

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
HI146 Modern East Asian History, 1600-Present A
HI244 Brothers at War: The Two Koreas, 1945-Present A
HI344 Buying Asian Bodies: Selling Peoples and Parts Across the Pacific A
HI349 Almost Asian: Race Mixing and Trans-Racialism Across Asia A
HI351 Desiring Asia: Gender and Sexuality in East Asia A

Inga Kim Diederich is Assistant Professor of History. She works in the areas of East Asian history specializing in Korea, history of medicine, race and nationalism studies and gender studies. Her current scholarship explores the historical development of modern Korean ethnonationalism and its medico-scientific dimensions, focusing on the role of blood as both a cultural symbol and medical material in the formation of modern Korean identity. Professor Diederich previously taught in the Department of History at UCSD, where she received her doctorate degree, and spent the last three years conducting archival research in South Korea. At Colby, she is teaching courses that survey East Asian and Asian diaspora histories, addressing the role of race, gender, class, and (post)colonialism in shaping historical experiences in and beyond East Asia.

Make an Office Hours Appointment

Regular Office Hours: For meetings during my normal office hours, Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30 – 2:00 PM

Outside Office Hours: Please schedule meetings outside of normal office hours only if you have a time-conflict with another class that makes it impossible for you to meet during normal hours.

Background

Education and Training

2021 PhD University of California San Diego

2014 MA Harvard University

2009 BA University of Chicago

Honors and Awards

Diederich’s research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Northeast Asia Council, and the Korea Foundation, among others. She has held scholarly residences at the Academy of Korean Studies, Seongnam, South Korea; Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul, South Korea; and Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.

Teaching

Courses Taught

  • HI144 Patterns in East Asian History, to 1600
  • HI146 Modern East Asian History, 1600-Present
  • HI235 A Shrimp Between Whales: The Making of Modern Korea, 1800-1945
  • HI244 Brothers at War: The Two Koreas, 1945-Present
  • HI276 Patterns and Processes in World History
  • HI344 Buying Asian Bodies: Buying and Selling Asian Peoples and Parts Across the Pacific
  • HI349 Almost Asian: Race Mixing and Trans-Racialism across Asian Diasporas
  • HI351 Desiring Asia: Gender, Sexuality, and Orientalism in East Asia and Asian Diasporas

Ongoing Course Projects