Eunhee Park
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PhD, History, University of Wisconsin–Madison
MA, International Studies, Seoul National University
BA, English Education, Kyung Hee University
About
Eunhee Park is a historian of modern Korea whose research examines the political economy of everyday life, with particular interests in capitalism, finance, gender and material culture. Her work asks how large-scale economic transformations were experienced and negotiated through households, informal markets, gendered labor and everyday practices.
Her current book manuscript, Her Tactical Purse: Housewives, Finance, and Cold War Capitalism in South Korea, examines household finance during South Korea’s rapid development, focusing on budgeting, covert savings, rotating credit associations (kye), informal lending and household purse authority.
Research
Research Interests
Modern Korean history; political economy of everyday life; capitalism and finance; gender, family, and domesticity; Cold War and postcolonial Asia.