About me

I’m Minah Kang (pronounced “Mee-nah”)—a scholar of international relations working at the intersection of postcolonial studies and political geography.

Born and raised in Korea, I spent my formative years in Japan and am now based in Baltimore, USA, where I am completing a PhD in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. I hold a BA in Gender Studies & Political Science and an MA in Political Science from Ewha Womans University.

A central thread running through my work—and shaping my broader intellectual trajectory—is a question grounded in feminist theory and political geography: What scale of politics truly matters in people’s lives? Is it the body, the neighborhood, the household, the nation-state, or the planetary? How far do individuals, and I, perceive their connections to others—and how does that shape political being?

My research particularly takes up the regional scale as a geography of empire’s afterlives, with the Asia/Pacific region as its primary site of inquiry.

Outside of academia, I love hiking, designing maps, and making pasta (not necessarily from scratch).