Rate My Professor Soyoung Suh

Suh's research specializes in the history of medicine in Korea since the fifteenth century, encompassing medicine, language, identity, breast cancer, gendered medical culture, and broader East Asian contexts. Her major publication is the book Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century (Harvard University Asia Center, 2017). Key peer-reviewed articles include “Stories to Be Told: Korean Doctors Between Hwa-byung (Fire-illness) and Depression, 1970–2011” (Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 2013), “Shanghanlun in Korea, 1610–1945” (Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity, 2015), “Rethinking Breast Mountain (yuam): Surgical Treatments of Breast Cancer in Korea, 1959–1993” (Asia Pacific Perspectives, 2016), and “From Influence to Confluence: Positioning the History of Pre-Modern Korean Medicine in East Asia” (Korean Journal of Medical History, 2010). She has received honors such as the Kyujanggak Fellowship from Seoul National University (2018), Jacobus Family Fellowship and Provost Research Funds from Dartmouth (2017–2018), Junior Faculty Fellowship from Dartmouth (2014), and fellowships from the Needham Research Institute (2004) and UCLA History Department. Suh teaches courses including Introduction to Korean Culture, Body Parts, Body Wholes: An Introduction to the Comparative History of Medicine, North Korea: Origins and Transition, and Christianity in Korea.