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Sinae HYUN

Sinae Hyun is a historian specialized in the Cold War, nationalism, and Southeast Asian studies. She earned her Masters and doctoral degrees from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of History respectively at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her doctoral dissertation surveys the history of the Thai Border Patrol Police and shows how the Thai ruling elites appropriated American policies of anticommunist modernization during the Cold War. A monograph based on this research entitled Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand is forthcoming in 2023. In the meantime, she continues her research on the development of ethnic minorities as an Asian martial race and the histories of American Protestant missionaries in Southeast Asia during the age of high colonialism.

E-mail

sinae@sogang.ac.kr

Office

Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University, 35 Baekbeom-ro (Sinsu-dong), Mapogu, Seoul, 04107, Republic of Korea

Education

· Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, History

· M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, History

· M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Southeast Asian Studies

· B.A. Ewha Woman’s University, History

Academic and Professional Experiences

· Research Professor, Institute for East Asian Studies at Sogang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Sep 2020 - present)

· Vice Director of the Korean Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (KISEAS), (January 2022 – present)

· Editorial Board Member of the Korean Association of Thai Studies (KATS), (July 2021 – present)

· Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (- Aug 2020)

· Postdoctoral Fellow in the Global Asia research cluster and History Programme, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Jan 2015 – Aug 2016)

· Mellon Fellow in the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the GeorgeWashington University (Sep 2012 – Aug 2013)

Selected Publications

· Hyun, Sinae. “Thailand 2022: The Chances of Change Created by Crises.” Southeast Asian Review, 33, no.1 (January 2023): 233-279. *In Korean

· Hyun, Sinae. “Discourses of the Southeast Asian Studies' Identity and Sustainability.” Asia Review, 12, no. 3 (December 2022): 287-317. *In Korean

· Hyun, Sinae. Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, forthcoming April 2023)

· Hyun, Sinae. “Laos was Vietnam before there was a Vietnam”: Lao Civil War and Nation-Building in the Shadow of the Indochina War, 1945-1975.” Southeast Asian Review 32, no. 1 (January 2022): 283-325. *In Korean

· Hyun, Sinae. “In the Eyes of the Beholder: American and Thai Perceptions of the Highland Minority during the Cold War.” Cold War History 22, no. 2 (2022): 153-171.

· Hyun, Sinae. “Why are the Border Patrol Police in Bangkok Now?” ISEAS Perspective, Issue 2020, No. 133, published on November 23, 2020. https://www.iseas.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ISEAS_Perspective_2020_133.pdf.

· Hyun, Sinae. “Southeast Asianists in the Digital Age.” Suvannabhumi: Multi-disciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 10:2 (December 2018): 215-228.

· Hyun, Sinae. “Mae Fah Luang: Princess Mother’s Royal Project with the Thai Border Patrol Police during the Cold War.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 48:2 (June 2017): 262-282.

· Hyun, Sinae. “Missionaries of Royalist Nationalism: Transformations of the Thai Border Patrol Police during the Cold War.” In Policing Colonial Empires: Cases and Connections, Nineteenth-Twentieth Century, edited by Emmanuel Blanchard, Marieke Bloembergen and Amandine Lauro, 197-214. Brussels: PIE-Peter Lang, 2017.

· Hyun, Sinae. “Ugly American, Ugly Thais.” Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, Young Academic’s Voice, published on April 30, 2015. https://kyotoreview.org/yav/ugly-americans-ugly-thais/.

· Hyun, Sinae. “Building a Human Border: The Thai Border Patrol Police School Project in the Post-Cold War Era.” Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 29:2 (July 2014): 332-363.

· Hyun, Sinae. “Integrating a Nation from the Margins: The Remote Area Security Development of the Border Patrol Police in Northern Thailand.” Rian Thai 3 (2010): 233-258.

· Hyun, Sinae. "Dialogue between the Past and the Present for Democratization: Thai youth Activism in 1973 and 2023." East Asian Studies 43, no.1 (2024): 143-178. *In Korean

· Hyun, Sinae. "Thailand 2023: Structural Problems to Overcome to Move Forward." Southeast Asian Review 34,

no. 1 (2024): 63-98. *In Korean

· Hyun, Sinae. "Disenchanted: Indigenissation of the American Cold War in Southeast Asia." Journal of Southeast

Asian Studies 54, no. 1 (Feb. 2023): 22-43.

Current Research

· Nationality and ethnicity of the highland minorities in northern Thailand during the Cold War

· Histories of American Protestant missionaries in Southeast Asia between 19-20^th centuries

· Development of royalist network and royalist nationalism in Thailand

· Unconventional warfare and counterinsurgency strategies during the Cold War