Field: United States; Advisor: Stephanson; Year: 2020
Seokju is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Columbia University. His research interests lie at the intersections of US foreign relations, political economy, and international thought. His dissertation project interrogates the relationship between regional economic convergence across the US and the US’ turn to globalism in the mid-twentieth century, with a focus on policy intellectuals and lawmakers in Congress.
More generally, Seokju is interested in historiography as a form of political thought.