Hyemin "Hamni" Park

Welcome!

My name is Hyemin [hjɛ:min] “Hamni” Park. I am a Ph.D. candidate in political theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to Madison, I studied at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea, for both my B.A. and M.A. in political science.

With my research, I explore the question of how East Asian thinkers in the 19th and 20th centuries made sense of Western political concepts. By doing so, I hope to put the Western intellectual tradition and the East Asian intellectual tradition into a conversation. Currently, with my dissertation project, I am exploring how the concept of liberty, a new concept that arrived in East Asia at the turn of the twentieth century, was understood and employed for different political purposes in Japan, China, and Korea.

When I’m not working, I’m walking along the Lakeshore Path or reading physics books by Richard Feynman and Carlo Rovelli.