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Buhm Soon Park

Buhm Soon Park is Professor at the Graduate School of Science, Technology, and Policy and Director of the Center for Anthropocene Studies (CAS) at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea. His research explores policy issues at the intersection between science, law, and governance from a historical and comparative perspective. He currently works on the imaginaries of biomedicine in the US and East Asia, focusing on government institutions (like the National Institute of Health—NIH), transnational clinical trials (in Korea), and legal (re)definition of the post-genomic self. He also studies the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) as a postcolonial Anthropocene space, exploring the co-evolution of Cold War militarism and ecological thinking in East Asia. He received his PhD in the History of Science from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and spent several years at the NIH as a postdoctoral fellow. He has published on a wide range of topics, such as the history of quantum chemistry, the history of NIH, and science policy in East Asia. He was a senior visiting research fellow in the Harvard Kennedy School’s STS Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2017.

Projecting the Anthropocene  projectAnthropocene Labs  projectCentre for Anthropocene Studies, South Korea 2018–  projectTechnological DMZ  Case StudySeminar: Risk/Equity  project