Faculty
Minsoo Kang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Minsoo Kang is an assistant professor in European history, with speciality in the cultural and intellectual history of France, England, and Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He received his Ph.D. in June of 2004 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he wrote his dissertation on the automaton as a cultural and intellectual symbol in the European imagination. Other areas of his interests include the history of science and technology, literary history - especially the use of science fiction for the study of history, global history - especially East Asian - European contact in the early modern period, and Korean history. His essays and reviews have been published in the American Historical Review, Rethinking History, the Times Literary Supplement, Comitatus, Manoa, and two anthologies.
To contact Dr. Kang please use the following email kangmi@umsl.edu