[KS] Winner Announced: UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies

[Berkeley Center for Korean Studies]

ANNOUNCEMENT:
The Winner of The UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies

The Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley is honored to announce the
2025 winner of the UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean
Studies: *Among
Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War* (Cornell
University Press, 2023), by Professor Suzy Kim (Rutgers).

In *Among Women across Worlds*, Professor Kim builds upon her previous
work on the North Korean revolution with a more explicitly feminist study
of North Korean women and their transnational associations within the
socialist world in the first decades of the North Korean state. Kim opens
up a time when North Korean women actively forged new connections,
represented their new state in international spaces, and contested the
definition of peace and justice in these transnational spaces as much as
within North Korea itself. The result is a rigorous excavation of
emancipatory feminist solidarities in Korea’s twentieth century, revealing
how Korean women in the Eastern bloc during the first half of the Cold War
advanced ideals such as “women’s rights are human rights” in ways rarely
appreciated by Western-centered historiographies. Kim’s retrieval of these
little-known historical relationships that speak as urgently to the
question of peace and justice in our own times, as they did in the era she
is writing about, demonstrates the power and potential of historical
writing in exploring a past that can still speak to our present.

The UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies and its $10,000
prize were created to support groundbreaking research and writing that
seeks to further the field of Korean Studies. A ceremony to celebrate the
award and Professor Kim’s academic accomplishment will be held at UC
Berkeley on Thursday, March 5, 2026.

The Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley is deeply grateful to all of
the authors and publishers who participated in this year’s competition. We
will soon make a separate announcement launching next year’s competition,
which will be open to submissions of Korean Studies books published in 2024
and 2025.

*Kelsey R. Wong* (she/her)
Program Director
Center for Korean Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Banway Building
2111 Bancroft Way, Suite 549L
Berkeley, CA 94720
cks at berkeley.edu

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