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Christina Hyo-Jung Lee is a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University, serving as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Acting Director for the Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. She holds affiliations with the Humanities Council, Center for Culture, Society, and Religion, and advisory roles in Latin American Studies, Indigenous Studies, and the Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity. Her research focuses on Iberian Spain and the Spanish Transpacific during the early modern period, emphasizing colonial devotional practices and transoceanic cultural exchanges.
Education: PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University (2007), BA in Latin American Literature from UC Berkeley. Prior to Princeton, she taught at Harvard, UC Berkeley, and other institutions.
Her major projects include a digital repatriation initiative recovering the Convent of San Pablo’s lost archive (funded by NEH/AHRC until 2025), co-editing the Connected Histories in the Early Modern World book series, and publishing works like Saints of Resistance (Oxford, 2021) and The Spanish Pacific (Amsterdam UP, 2020). She actively collaborates with international scholars in菲律宾 and Spain to recover marginalized historical narratives.
Professional activities include grant-funded archival work in the Philippines, organizing interdisciplinary workshops on early modern Spanish Pacific studies, and mentoring graduate students in transregional humanities research.
