Jie-Hyun Lim

Jie-Hyun Lim is CIPSH chair holder of ‘Global Easts,’ Distinguished Professor, and founder of the Critical Global Studies Institute (CGSI) at Sogang University, Seoul. He has served as Principal Investigator of the research project Mnemonic Solidarity: Colonialism, War and Genocide in the Global Memory Space (2017-2024) and Series Editor of “Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century” and “Entangled Memories in the Global South” at Palgrave/Macmillan, and “Global Easts” at the Central European University Press. His recent books include Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age (Columbia Univ. Press, 2025), Opfernationalismus. Erinnerung und Herrschaft in der postkolonialen Welt (Klaus Wagenbach, 2024), Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Practicing (Columbia Univ. Press, 2022), Mnemonic Solidarity-Global Interventions, co-edited with Eve Rosenhaft (Palgrave, 2021), The Palgrave Handbook of Mass Dictatorship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), co-edited with Paul Corner. Also, he has kept the positions of visiting professors and residential scholars at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Warsaw University, Columbia University, Harvard Yenching Institute, Paris II, EHESS, Paris X, University of Bielefeld, Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect at LMU, GWZO in Leipzig, Hitotsubashi University, Cracow Pedagogical University, etc.