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Sara Kang is a Cotsen Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and History at Princeton University. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, and imperial histories in modern Japan, Korea, and the Asia-Pacific. She earned a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University, with prior degrees from Williams College and Harvard’s Regional Studies program.
Her primary project, Operation Relax, examines U.S.-Japan imperial legacies in military sex management during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. A second project explores hot spring histories and their impact on Asian American diasporic women’s lives. Kang advocates for transnational feminist solidarity through academic and public writing.
- Education:
- B.A. History & Japanese, Williams College
- A.M. Regional-Studies East Asia, Harvard University
- Ph.D. History, Harvard University
Her research has been supported by the Fulbright Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Harvard’s Reischauer/Korea Institutes. She contributes to the Asia-Pacific Journal and Harper’s Bazaar, and organizes the Modern Japan History Association’s New Books Series.
