About me

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

I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, currently based in Baltimore. My academic journey began at Ewha Womans University, where I received my BA and MA, and is deeply informed by my upbringing in Korea and Japan.

A central thread running through my work—and shaping my broader intellectual trajectory—is a question grounded in feminist thought: what scale of politics truly matters in people’s lives? Is it the body, the household, the neighborhood, the nation-state, or the planetary? How far do we perceive our 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).