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Soyoung Suh is an Associate Professor of History and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College, holding the Korea Foundation Professorship. She specializes in the history of medicine in Korea and East Asia, with a focus on transnational medical exchanges and gendered medical practices.
Education: B.S. and M.S. from Seoul National University, Ph.D. in History from UCLA (2007). Her research explores colonial-era medical identity formation, post-WWII breast cancer treatment histories, and transnational medical narratives. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and collaborated with the University of Westminster on Wellcome Trust-funded projects.
Her book Naming the Local (2017) examines how medical terminology shaped Korean identity over five centuries. Current research includes a transnational history of breast cancer in Korea (1910–2010). She teaches courses on Korean culture, medical history, and North Korean studies.
Publications span Asian Medicine, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, and Asia Pacific Perspectives, analyzing topics from pre-modern medical texts to modern gendered health narratives.
