Researcher Bio
Minyong Lee is a historian of the Modern West. She is broadly interested in the cultural politics of empires. Her research concerns US expansion and colonialism in the nineteenth- to early-twentieth-century North American West and the Pacific Ocean. Recently she has been working on the meanings of steam transportation across the Pacific, exploring how the medium of travel both reflected and shaped US elite and popular conceptions about East Asia and the Pacific Ocean. Her research and teaching interests also include the history of tourism, migration and transnational belongings, border makings and border crossings.
Key Publications
2025 “Colonialism and Internationalism in Transpacific Tourism Promotions, c1910-1929,” Seo-yang-sa-ron (The Western History Review) 167 [in Korean].
2024 “Envisioning Development in the Philippines under U.S. Colonial Rule: An Analysis of the Military Government in the Moro Province, 1898-1920,” Yeok-sa-hak-bo (The Korean Historical Review) 262 [in Korean]
2023 “Embodied by the Steamships: The Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Making of Transpacific Connections in the Age of Empire,” Pacific Historical Review 92: 2.