Research Assistants
Ah-Hyun Angela Lee (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Ah-Hyun Angela Lee is a PhD candidate under the supervision of Professor Dr. Yonson Ahn.
She obtained a BA in History of Art and Korean Studies and an MA in Modern East Asian Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt. During her master’s studies, she received a fellowship award for the “Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Summer Program 2020”. She was also an exchange student at Korea University in Seoul for one semester.
In her PhD research project, she primarily examines the translocal linkages established with the “comfort women” memorial, Sonyŏsang (Statue of a Girl for Peace), using the examples of Seoul, Berlin, and Kyoto. For this, she conducted fieldwork as a visiting research fellow at Waseda University in Japan and Sungkonghae University in South Korea. Her research project has been funded by the Academy of Korean Studies, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies at Goethe University.
She was a lecturer for the seminars “South Korea’s relations to Japan” (WS 2022/23) and “Migration in South Korea and Korean immigrants in the world: History and social challenges” (SS 2023). Her research interests include but are not limited to contested memories, the Korean diaspora, and public history.