PARK Haesoo
Full-time Faculty
Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Society (Education)
College of Integrative Studies
CIS
Qualifications
- PhD, Yale University, USA, 2019
- MPhil, Yale University, USA, 2017
- MA, Yale University, USA, 2015
Research Interests
- Science and Technology Studies
- History of Life Sciences
- History of Biomedicine
- Postcolonial Feminist Theory
- Medical Anthropology
Course(s) Taught in SMU
- Biotechnology in a Global Society
- Epidemics - Biomedicine and Global Health
- Epidemics - Life Sciences, Biomedicine, and Global Health
Research Areas and Areas of Expertise
Strategic Priorities
HighlightsHaesoo Park is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work bridges science, technology, and society, with a focus on the cultural and historical dimensions of biomedicine and biotechnology in global and postcolonial contexts.
Integrates rigorous historical and cultural scholarship with scientific expertise in immunology and virology; advances understanding of how biotechnologies are shaped by and shape societal narratives, especially in Asian and postcolonial settings; active in public humanities and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Focused research areas include Cultural and historical analysis of biotechnology and biomedicine, particularly in South Korea and Southeast Asia; intersections of science, technology, and society in postcolonial contexts; narratives of biological sciences; emergence of epigenetics; gender and technoscientific sovereignty.
Integrates rigorous historical and cultural scholarship with scientific expertise in immunology and virology; advances understanding of how biotechnologies are shaped by and shape societal narratives, especially in Asian and postcolonial settings; active in public humanities and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Focused research areas include Cultural and historical analysis of biotechnology and biomedicine, particularly in South Korea and Southeast Asia; intersections of science, technology, and society in postcolonial contexts; narratives of biological sciences; emergence of epigenetics; gender and technoscientific sovereignty.
Areas of Expertise
Sciencetechnology and society (STS)history and cultures of biomedicine and biotechnologypostcolonial sciencefeminist STSpublic humanitiesimmunology and virology.
Past Awarded Grant
- Spirals of Life: Biotheory, MacMillan Center International Dissertation Research Grant, MacMillan Center PI (Project Level): PARK Haesoo, 2017
- Epigenetic Century, History of Science and Medicine Research Grant, Yale University PI (Project Level): PARK Haesoo, 2017
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Qualifications
- PhD, Yale University, USA, 2019
- MPhil, Yale University, USA, 2017
- MA, Yale University, USA, 2015
Research Interests
- Science and Technology Studies
- History of Life Sciences
- History of Biomedicine
- Postcolonial Feminist Theory
- Medical Anthropology
Course(s) Taught in SMU
- Biotechnology in a Global Society
- Epidemics - Biomedicine and Global Health
- Epidemics - Life Sciences, Biomedicine, and Global Health