Sunho Ko

Sunho Ko is a cultural historian of modern Korean history with expertise in food and agriculture. He received a PhD degree from the University of Toronto with a dissertation on the cultural history of food in wartime colonial Korea under Japanese rule. Dr. Ko is revising his dissertation into a book, entitled Food for Empire: Wartime Food Politics on the Korean Homefront, 1937–1945. As part of the book project, his article, “Managing Colonial Diets: Wartime Nutritional Science on the Korean Population, 1937–1945” was published in the Journal of Social History of Medicine. Dr. Ko is also expanding his research period from colonial Korea to postcolonial Korea, in particular, North Korea to explore new topics of socialism, the Cold War, animal studies and environmental history.