Education
Ph.D., University of California Berkeley
Research Interests
Modern Japan; Modern Korea
Regional and Thematic Interests
East Asia
History
Profile
Professor Lim specializes in modern Japan and Korea. Her dissertation, "Enemies of the Lineage: Widows and Customary Rights in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945" deals with the transformation of family customs in Korea under the Japanese colonial rule. Professor Lim's teaching interest includes the histories of Korea, Japan, colonialism and post-colonialism, law, and women. Professor Lim is on leave this year (2012-2013) revising her dissertation into a book manuscript as the Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA.
Selected Publications
2016. “Affection and Assimilation: Concubinage and the Ideal of Conjugal Love in Colonial Korea, 1922-1938,” Gender and History, Vol. 28, No. 2.
2013. “Women on the Loose: Colonial Household System and Family Anxiety in Korea” in Wen-hsin Yeh, ed., Mobile Subjects: Boundaries and Identities in Modern Korean Diaspora, (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley)