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Hwansoo Kim, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Graduate Program in Religion

Hwansoo Kim

Please note: Hwansoo has left the "Graduate Program in Religion" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Professor Kim’s primary research concerns Korean Buddhism in the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in the context of colonialism, imperialism, and modernity. His broader scholarship includes East Asian religions, Buddhist modernities, transnational Buddhism, monasticism, clerical marriage, rituals, and ethics.

Contact Info:
Office Location:  118 Gray Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address: send me a message

Office Hours:

Thursday, 1-2:30pm
Education:

Ph.D.Harvard University2007
MTSHarvard Divinity School2002
BSDongguk University1996
Specialties:

Korean
Buddhism
East Asian Religions
Culture
Keywords:

Colonialism • Zen Buddhism

Curriculum Vitae
Current Ph.D. Students  

  • Jeffrey Nicholaisen  
  • Mani Rao  
  • Seth Ligo  
  • Yeongjin Cho  
  • Uri Kaplan  
  • Jeff Schroeder  
  • Matthew Mitchell  
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Kim, H, Seeking the colonizer’s favours for a buddhist vision: The korean buddhist nationalist paek yongsŏng’s (1864-1940) imje sŏn movement, in Buddhist Modernities: Re-Inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World (January, 2017), pp. 66-88, ISBN 9781134884759 [doi]
  2. Kim, H, Buddhism during the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392–1910): A Collective Trauma?, vol. 22 no. 1 (2017), pp. 101-142 [doi]  [abs]
  3. Nakanishi Naoki, Colonial Korea and Japanese Buddhism (Chōsen Shokuminichi to Nihon Bukkyō), Japanese Religions Journal (May, 2015)
  4. H.I. Kim, 'The Mystery of the Century’: Lay Buddhist Monk Villages (Chaegasŭngch’on) Near Korea’s Northernmost Border, 1600s–1960s, Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, vol. 26 no. 2 (April, 2014), pp. 269-305  [abs]
  5. H.I. Kim, Social Stigmas of Buddhist Monastics and the Lack of Lay Buddhist Leadership in Colonial Korea (1910–1945), Korea Journal, vol. 26 no. 2 (February, 2014), pp. 269-305  [abs]

HWANSOO ILMEE KIM (2009) received his Ph.D. in the colonial history of Korean and Japanese Buddhism from Harvard University in 2007. He has a BA in the history of East Asian Buddhism and Yogacara philosophy from Dongguk University in Seoul, Korea (1996) and received his master’s in Buddhism and the sociology and theory of religion at Harvard Divinity School (2002). Before joining Duke, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard's Reischauer Institute (2007) and assistant professor at the University of Arizona (2008). Professor Kim’s primary research concerns Korean Buddhism in the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in the context of colonialism, imperialism, and modernity. His broader scholarship includes East Asian religions, Buddhist modernities, transnational Buddhism, monasticism, clerical marriage, rituals, and ethics.


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