Heesoo Cho

Heesoo Cho serves as Assistant Professor of History at Davidson College, specializing in early American history with emphases on maritime expansion, global spatial imaginaries, and knowledge production during the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries.

Her academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. and M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis
• M.A. from Seoul National University
• B.A. from Yonsei University

Dr. Cho's research investigates how early Americans engaged with the Pacific Ocean through cultural and intellectual frameworks, analyzing maps, business correspondence, logbooks, journals, and newspapers to reveal how geographic imaginings shaped continental identity and imperial ambitions. Her current book project demonstrates how conceptualizations of the Pacific directly influenced American expansionism in the early nineteenth century. Teaching responsibilities encompass the early American history survey alongside specialized seminars on the Age of Revolutions, maritime/oceanic worlds, spatial history, and early modern knowledge production.

No scientific awards are documented in her professional profile.

She actively advises students within Davidson's History Department and develops curricula exploring transnational historical frameworks, though specific advisees are not enumerated in available materials.