Sungeun Kim

Sungeun Kim is a historian and anthropologist of the earth sciences. He earned his PhD from the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). His dissertation, “Territorial Science: Producing Geoscientific Knowledge and Geopolitical Order around the Korean Peninsula,” analyzes how various territorial concerns have shaped the course of the earth sciences in and around modern South Korea. His research interests include the history of the earth sciences in East Asia, the politics of international geoscientific cooperations, and the use of state-led geoscience in environmental governance.