Hyunhee Park

Hyunhee Park is a Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center. A native of South Korea, Prof. Park received her B.A. in Asian and Western history at Seoul National University, M.A. in East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Ph.D. in history at Yale University.

Prof. Park specializes in the history of cross-cultural contacts in East Asia and the Islamic World, in Sino-Islamic contacts in particular, in the Mongol Empire, and global history, focusing on information/knowledge transfers, including transfers of geographical knowledge, foodways, and distillation technologies. She authored Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds: Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, Hardback 2012, Paperback 2015), Soju: A Global History (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and 30 articles for academic journals and edited volumes.

Serving as the coordinator of the Humanities and Justice Studies program (Fall 2016 –), Prof. Park has taught several cap-stone courses for the HJS major in addition to history courses including Chinese and Global History, Historiography, Research Methods, and Senior Seminars.