Dr. Sandra Park is a historian of modern Korea, religion and the global Cold War, and the US empire in East Asia. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, where she is also affiliated with the Department of Religious Studies and Department of History.
Her first book project, titled Anointed Crossings: Christianity, Cold War, and the Violent Making of US Empire in Korea, retraces the wartime footsteps of North Korean Christians to examine the ways in which their experiences of occupation, displacement, and internment shaped the formation of a Christian political subjectivity in South Korea at the height of American military power during and long after the Korean War.
An interdisciplinary historian, she is broadly interested in the entanglements between religion and Cold War politics of subject-making in twentieth-century Korea and the broader transpacific world, including the Korean diaspora and North Korea. In 2020, her microhistorical examination of socialist secularization in early revolutionary North Korea appeared in the Journal of Korean Studies.
Sandra Park received her PhD from the Department of History at the University of Chicago, where she also received an MA in History and a BA in History with honors. Before joining the University of Arizona, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the GW Institute for Korean Studies.
Her first book project, titled Anointed Crossings: Christianity, Cold War, and the Violent Making of US Empire in Korea, retraces the wartime footsteps of North Korean Christians to examine the ways in which their experiences of occupation, displacement, and internment shaped the formation of a Christian political subjectivity in South Korea at the height of American military power during and long after the Korean War.
An interdisciplinary historian, she is broadly interested in the entanglements between religion and Cold War politics of subject-making in twentieth-century Korea and the broader transpacific world, including the Korean diaspora and North Korea. In 2020, her microhistorical examination of socialist secularization in early revolutionary North Korea appeared in the Journal of Korean Studies.
Sandra Park received her PhD from the Department of History at the University of Chicago, where she also received an MA in History and a BA in History with honors. Before joining the University of Arizona, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the GW Institute for Korean Studies.