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Inga Kim Diederich serves as Assistant Professor of History at Colby College, specializing in East Asian history with particular expertise in Korean studies, where her work intersects medicine, race, nationalism, and gender scholarship.
Her academic foundation includes a PhD from the University of California San Diego (2021), an MA from Harvard University (2014), and a BA from the University of Chicago (2009).
Professor Diederich's research investigates how blood functions as both cultural symbol and medical substance in modern Korean ethnonational identity formation, critically analyzing race, gender, class, and postcolonial dynamics across East Asian historical experiences. Her methodology blends archival research with interdisciplinary approaches from medical humanities and critical race theory.
Her scholarly contributions have earned recognition through:
- Fulbright Fellowship
- Social Science Research Council Fellowship
- Northeast Asia Council Fellowship
- Korea Foundation Grant
- Academy of Korean Studies Residency (Seongnam)
- Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies Residency (Seoul)
- Seoul National University Residency
At Colby, she teaches core courses including Modern East Asian History and specialized seminars like Buying Asian Bodies and Desiring Asia, while leading ongoing projects such as Voices from the Peninsula: Oral Histories of Korea. Prior to Colby, she taught at UCSD following extensive archival research in South Korea.
