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Researcher Bio<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

Ka Young Ko is a modern history researcher specializing in the Soviet civil rights movement. Her work explores topics such as Sakharov\u2019s peace ideology, the 1968 Movement and the Soviet resistance, as well as the Soviet Free Trade Union and the activities of groups like the \u201cSoviet Human Rights Protection Leading Group\u201d and the \u201cMoscow Helsinki Group.\u201d In addition, her research also covers the migration history and living culture of Goryo people in Moscow, Primorsky Krai, the Urals, Central Asia, Ukraine, and South Korea. She has also examined subjects such as the Jewish repatriation movement of the 1970s, the ideas and activities of the Jewish Bunt during the Russian Revolution, Stalin\u2019s anti-Semitism, and the characteristics of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Province in Siberia, and the migration of Crimean Tatars to Central Asia and their return to Crimea are also topics that she has researched.<\/p>\n

Recently, her research has also focused on museum studies in Moscow, Kaliningrad, and Central Asia. She has additionally explored the responses of Central Asian elites to the establishment of the Soviet federal government and the dynamics of national boundary formation\u2014an important issue in understanding the region\u2019s historical development.<\/p>\n

Since May 2022, she has participated in the HK\u207a Mega Asia Research Project Group. In relation to the Mega Asia research agenda, she has conducted research on minority human rights, focusing on the struggles of disabled people who are restricted in their mobility rights (\u201cOrganized rights movement of disabled people in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s\u201d). She has also explored the topic of the biopolitics of Mega Asia (\u201cFrom the wife of someone who betrayed the fatherland to a citizen of the Soviet Union: Focusing on the struggle for recognition of women imprisoned in the Alzir camp\u201d). Such research will enable future comparative studies on \u2018naked lives\u2019 in various regions of Asia. She is also engaged in refugee studies, focusing on Ukrainian war refugees as well as Afghan refugee women and religious issues in Tajikistan.<\/p>\n

Key Publications<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

2025, Exploring Concentrated Settlements of Koryoin in South Korea Focus on Ansan, Gwangju, and Jecheon. Zininzin.
\n2024, \u201cCharacteristics of the Developmental Stage of Gwangju <Koryein Village> and Limitations,\u201d Journal of history and culture 92.
\n2024, \u201cIdentity Changes among Afghan Refugees Transiting through Tajikistan: Focusing on Gender Roles and Religious Identity,\u201d Homo Migrans (Migration, Colonialism, Racism) 31.
\n2023, \u201cFrom \u2018the Wife of a Traitor to the Motherland\u2019 to a Soviet Citizen: The Imprisoned Women\u2019s Struggle for the Recognition of in the \u2018ALZHIR\u2019 Gulag,\u201d Slav newspaper 38(4)
\n2022, \u201cThe Rights Movement of the \u2018Disabled\u2019 in the Soviet Union in 1970s and 1980s,\u201d The Western History Review 155
\n2021, \u201cThe Reaction of the Central Asian Elites to the Building of the Soviet Union Government and the Dynamics of the Nation-Republic\u2019s Border Making\u201d Slav newspaper 36(4)
\n2020, Strategies for Subregionalism and Transborder Mobility in\/around North Korea-China-Russia Border Area. R&J Books
\n2019, Historical and Cultural Experience of Islam in Central Asia. Zininzin
\n2018, \u201cThe Cultural Encounter and Hybridity in the Funeral Practices of Soviet Koreans in Central Asia,\u201d Journal of history and culture 67
\n2016, \u201cRepatriation of Crimean Tatars in Central Asia: From a unique national movement to a universal human rights movement,\u201d The Western History Review 130
\n2011, \u201cThe Exodus of Soviet Jews: Struggle for the Emigration Freedom,\u201d The Western History Review
\n2010, \u201c\u201cThe Prague Spring\u201d in 1968 and the Resistance Movement in the Soviet Union,\u201d The Western History Review. 106<\/p>\n

Other Experience<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

HK+ Research Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Institute of History and Culture (2018~2022)
\nResearch Fellow, Seoul National University Asia Center (2014~2018)
\nResearch Professor, Ewha Womans University Institute of World and Global History (2010~2013)<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

Ph.D. Department of History, Moscow State University. Majored in History.
\nM.A. Department of History, Moscow State University. Majored in History.
\nM.A. Department of History, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Majored in History Education.
\nB.A. Department of History, Ewha Womans University. Majored in History.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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