Sang-ho Ro works on the intellectual and cultural history of early modern and modern Korea. He received his Ph.D. in East Asian Studies (Korean history) from Princeton University in 2012 and came to Ewha in 2013 after teaching as an instructor at Seoul National University and Inha University. His research concentrates on the history of knowledge, examining the historical transformation of Neo-Confucian epistemology and scientific research on the eve of the modern period. His latest book came out in 2021 from Routledge in a title of Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814 (New York and London: Routledge, 2021). His recent article is "Shifting perceptions of insects in the late Choson period", International Journal of Korean History 25:1 (2020). Also, he is a contributor of Kanryu, Nichryu : Higashi Ajia bunka k ry no jidai (Tokyo: Bensei shuppan, 2014) and Myeongdong kilgori munhwasa (Han'gukhak chungang yeonguweon, 2019).
Department Chair, Department of Korean Studies/Department Chair, Korean Studies
Kim Yung Sik 김영식, Han’guk Jeontong Gwahagui Baegyeong 한국 전통 과학의 배경 (The Background of the Traditional Korean Science), Paju: Dulnyouk. 2021, 379 pp.한국과학사학회지, 2021, v.43 no.2, 511-513
[학술지논문] Yi Ik's epistemological expansion seen through the concept of Mulli (the principle of things) in the eighteenth century
한국학연구, 2022, v.81
no.0
, 35-70
KCI
[학술지논문] Cookbooks and female writers in late Chosǒn Korea
Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, 2016, v.29
no.1
, 133-157
[학술지논문] 1910〜20년대 조선어 가정용 백과사전의 출판과 그 내용:- 강의영(姜義永)의 가뎡보감류를 중심으로 -
한국학연구, 2014, v.48
no.0
, 99-133
KCI
[학술지논문] Cultural Hybridity and Mimic Men in Colonial Korea: The Case of Yu Chin-o (1906-1987)
SUNGKYUN JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES, 2013, v.13
no.2
, 193-209
SCI
[학술지논문] Cafe Waitresses and Disharmony: "Erotic Grotesque" Aestheticism in 1930s Colonial Korea
Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, 2012, v.4
no.4
, 729-756
[저역서] Insect Histories of East Asia
University of Washington Press, 2023, 288
[학술발표] Born-in-America in the Kingdom of Plants in Early Modern Korea: Tobacco and the Psychoactive RevolutionThe 7th Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History, 대한민국, 대전, 2023-06-30
EAEH 2023 Proceedings of the 7th Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History, 2023, 432-443
[학술발표] Mathematical Justification and Proofs as a New Mode of Knowledge Exchange in Eighteenth-century Korea31st AKSE Conference, 덴마크, 코펜하겐, 2023-06-24
31st AKSE Conference, 2023
[학술발표] 동아시아 공연예술에서 나타나는 중성적/양성적 미: 한일 극예술의 비교고찰동북아시아 공연예술에 나타난 근대성, 대한민국, 2018-01-27
동북아시아 공연예술에 나타난 근대성 , 2018
[학술발표] Regime of Engineering: Soyang Dam Construction and Transnational Cooperation in the 1960s Pak Chong-hui AdministrationBi-annual Conference of Association of Korean Studies in Europe, 체코, 2017-04-21
28th AKSE Conference Prague 2017, 2017
[학술발표] Developing Gangnam: Water, State, and Society in Modern KoreaKorea with Empire: Resisting, Contesting, and Approriating Transnational Universals, 미국, 2016-04-23
Conference Proceeding, 2016
[학술발표] Everyday Politics of Reclaiming Mud Flats in West Coast of South Korea: Historical Anthropology of Fishermen's Unions in IncheonEast Asian Environmental History 2015, 일본, 2015-10-24
Beyond borders: Oceans, Mountains, and Rivers in East Asia, 2015
[학술발표] 재한화교(在韓華僑)의 언론활동과 1960년대 명동글로벌공간<명동>을 통해 본 한국문화의 가능성, 대한민국, 2015-11-28
글로벌공간<명동>을 통해 본 한국문화의 가능성, 2015, 3-27
[서평] Book Review: The Background of the Traditional Korean Science by Kim Yung Sik한국과학사학회지, 2021, v.43
no.2
, 511-513