Katharine H.S. Moon

Katharine H.S. Moon is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. Since her arrival at Wellesley in 1993, she has offered courses in international relations and East Asian politics, with an emphasis on gender, women and social movements. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Smith College and her Ph.D. from Princeton University, Department of Politics. She has also taught at Trinity College in Hartford.

Moon is the author of Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations (Columbia University, 1997; Korean edition by Sam-in Publishing Co., 2002) and other publications on the U.S.-Korea alliance and social movements in Korea and Asia. They are available in edited volumes and academic journals such as Asian Survey and The Journal of Asian Studies and Korean publications such as Changjak gwa Bipyeong, Dangdae Bipyeong, and Newsweek Korea. Currently, Moon is writing a book on “anti-Americanism” in Korea-U.S. relations from the perspective of Korea’s democratization and the politics of social movements. Moon received a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship in 2002 to conduct field research in Korea on this subject and was a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in 2002-03.

Moon has served in the Office of the Senior Coordinator for Women’s Issues in the U.S. Department of State and as a trustee of Smith College. She serves on the editorial board of several journals of international relations and consults for NGOs in the U.S. and Korea. She also serves on policy task forces designed to examine current U.S.-Korea relations.

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