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257 Contributors John P. DiMoia is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore, where he teaches classes in the history of technology, the history of medicine, and modern Korea. He is the author of Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and NationBuilding in South Korea since 1945 (Stanford University Press, 2013) and has also published articles in Technology and Culture and EASTS. Gregory N. Evon is a senior lecturer in the School of International Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the University of New South Wales. Milan Hejtmanek is an associate professor in the Department of Korean History at Seoul National University. He specializes in the history of early modern Korea. Charlotte Horlyck is a lecturer in Korean art history in the Department of the History of Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She conducts research on the material culture of the Koryŏ period, particularly bronze artifacts and ceramics, as well as on the collecting of such objects in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. MichaelJ.Pettid is a professor of premodern Korean studies at Binghamton University. He has published widely on aspects of premodern Korea, including literature, history, religion, and dietary customs. His present projects include an annotated translation of the Kyuhap ch’ongsŏ [Encyclopedia of women’s lives]. 258 / Contributors Guy Podoler is a lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Haifa, where he teaches modern Korean history. His areas of research and interest include Korean memory politics, identity formation , and sports nationalism. He is the author of Monuments, Memory, and Identity: Constructing the Colonial Past in South Korea (Lang, 2011). FranklinRausch earned his PhD at the University of British Columbia studying under Dr. Don Baker. He is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Philosophy at Lander University. Sem Vermeersch is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Seoul National University. His main fields of interest are the history of Buddhism in Korea, Buddhism and political power in East Asia, and the history of the Koryŏ dynasty. He is the author of The Power of the Buddhas: The Politics of Buddhism During the Koryŏ Dynasty (Harvard University Asia Center, 2008). ...

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