Hyun, Jaehwan - 자유전공학부

Education

2018

Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science, Seoul National University

2012

M.S. in History and Philosophy of Science, Seoul National University

2010

B.A. in History, Philosophy, and Science and Technology Studies, Hanyang University

Career

Sep. 2026 – Present

Associate Professor, College of Liberal Studies and Department of Science Studies, Seoul National University

Mar. 2026 – Sep. 2026

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Hanyang University

Sep. 2020 – Feb. 2026

Assistant / Associate Professor, Institute of Liberal Education, Pusan National University

Sep. 2018 – Aug. 2020

Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG)

Jun. 2018 – Aug. 2020

Postdoctoral Fellow (Japan-Korea Cultural Exchange Fund), Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science

Mar. 2017 – Feb. 2018

Visiting Graduate Researcher, Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA

Research Interests

East Asian History of Science (Transnational History of Modern and Contemporary Science, Technology, and Biomedicine in Korea)
Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Environmental Humanities (Environmental History)

Publication

Hyun, Jaehwan and Hong, Sungook. “Technology and the Post-human.” In Cambridge History of Technology, edited by Dagmar Schäfer, Francesca Bray, Shadreck Chirikure, Tiago Saraiva, and Matteo Valleriani. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026.
현재환. 『다민족 과학』. 서울: 문학과지성사, 2026.
현재환. 「응용의 기치에서 자연 보존으로: 한국응용동물학회의 활동과 개발주의적 자연 보존론의 출현」. 『한국과학사학회지』 48 (2026): 29–62.
현재환. 「1960년대 한미 해녀 협력 연구와 초국적 생리학 지식 생산」. 『인문학연구』 66 (2026): 319–53.
알렉산드라 미나 스턴. 『유전상담의 역사: DNA로 계산하는 인간의 운명』. 현재환 책임번역. 서울: 이음, 2025.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Translation Matters: Racial Classification in South Korean Genetic and Genomic Research.” In The Order of People: Contesting Bio-Scientific Human Classifications, edited by Tino Plümecke, Andrea zur Nieden, Nils Ellebrecht, Isabelle Bartram, and Veronika Lipphardt, 133–49. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2025.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Different but Connected: Interpreting Choe Han-Gi and Science in the Two Koreas during the 1960s.” Historia Scientiarum 34 (2025): 288–314.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Reconstructing Identities amid Cold War and Postcolonial Politics: Zainichi Korean Scientists and Engineers in South Korea.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 55, no. 1 (2025): 96–127.
Hyun, Jaehwan, and Kaori Iida. “Contested Collaboration at Boundaries: Transnational Science and Medicine in Cold War East Asia.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 55, no. 1 (2025): 85–95.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Unmasked Barbers in Unhygienic Places: Masks and the Politics of Barbering Hygiene in Colonial Korea.” The Korean Journal of Medical History 34 (2025): 89–120.
玄在煥. 「韓国優生学の貫戦史的起源――科学者たちと日本の優生保護法」. 豊田真穂編. 『優生保護法のグローバル史』. 京都: 人文書院, 2024.
Hyun, Jaehwan. ““Multicultural Genes in Our Blood”? Genetic Governance and Biocultural Purity in South Korea.” In Ordering the Human: Global Spread of Racial Science, edited by Dorothy Roberts, Eram Alam, and Natalie Shibley. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.
김재형, 박지영, 현재환 공편. 『우리 안의 우생학: 적격과 부적격, 그 차별과 배제의 역사』. 파주: 돌베개, 2024.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Negotiating Conservation and Competition: National Parks and ‘Victory over Communism’ Diplomacy in South Korea.” The British Journal for the History of Science 57 (2024): 239–55.
Hyun, Jaehwan, Sungsoo Song, and Kaori Iida. “Historicizing Science and Technology Diplomacy in Japan and South Korea.” Korean Journal of Science and Technology Studies 24 (2024): 35–64.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Science as a Family Affair: Won Pyong-Oh and the Transwar Origins of South Korean Ornithology.” International Journal of Korean History 29 (2024): 81–131.
현재환, 원주영. 「『자연보존』을 통해 본 1970년대 자연보전 논의의 변화」. 『생태환경과 역사』 12 (2024): 73–115.
현재환. 「유전체 정의와 포스트식민주의 STS의 가능성」. 『과학기술과 사회』 7 (2024): 40–89.
현재환. 「과학과 반인종주의라는 가치: 유네스코 인종 선언문 논쟁」. 과학과 가치 연구회 기획. 『과학과 가치: 테크노사이언스에서 코스모테크닉스로』. 서울: 이음, 2023.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Race and Ethnicity.” In The Interwar World (Routledge Worlds Series), edited by Andrew Denning and Heidi J.S. Tworek, 263–278. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “From Mass Disasters to State Violence: Genetic Identification of Victims and Memory Politics in South Korea, 1988–2002.” The Korean Journal for the History of Science 45 (2023): 321–342.
Robinson, Sam, Jaehwan Hyun, et al. “The Globalization of Science Diplomacy in the Early 1970s: A Historical Exploration.” Science and Public Policy 50 (2023): 749–758.
현재환, 홍성욱 공편. 『마스크 파노라마: 흑사병에서 코로나 19까지, 마스크의 과학과 정치』. 서울: 문학과지성사, 2022.
현재환. 「해방 이후 한국의 ‘민족우생’론과 의과학자들, 1945~1964」. 『사회와역사』 136 (2022): 55–92.
현재환. 「일제강점기 위생 마스크의 등장과 정착」. 『의사학』 31, no. 1 (2022): 181–220.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Reconfiguring Mountaineering Expeditions: The Transwar Origins of the Korean Nature Conservation Movement, 1926–1962.” Korea Journal 62 (2022): 79–115.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Korean Science since the Colonial Period: Environment, Medicine, and Technology in Transwar Korea.” Korea Journal 62 (2022): 5–19.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Masked Societies in East Asia: A Forum on the Socio-Material History of Face Masks.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 16 (2022): 70–73.
Setoguchi, Akihisa, Jaehwan Hyun, and Mary Augusta Brazelton. “Some Reflections on the History of Masked Societies in East Asia.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 16 (2022): 108–116.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “In the Name of Human Adaptation: Japanese American Children and Racial Anthropology in Postwar Japan.” Perspectives on Science 30 (2022): 167–193.
Clever, Iris, Jaehwan Hyun, and Elise K. Burton. “People in Motion: Introduction to Transnational Movements and Transwar Connections in the Anthropological and Genetic Study of Human Populations.” Perspectives on Science 30 (2022): 1–12.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Rearticulating the “Primitive”: The Sea Women and the Emergence of Trans-Pacific Physiology.” Historia Scientiarum 30 (2021): 159–175.
Hyun, Jaehwan. ““Brokering Science, Blaming Culture”: The US-South Korea Ecological Survey in the Demilitarized Zone, 1963–1968.” History of Science 59 (2021): 315–343.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Between Engagement and Isolation: Population Genetics and Transnational Nationalism in South Korea during the 1960s–80s.” The Korean Journal for the History of Science 42, no. 2 (2020): 357–380.
현재환. 「”한민족의 뿌리”를 말하는 의사들: 의학 유전학과 한국인 기원론, 1975-1987」. 『의사학』 28, no. 2 (2019): 551–589.
현재환. 「”아시아인 건강을 위한 한국인 게놈”: 한국인 유전체 프로젝트의 상업화 전략」. 『과학기술학연구』 19, no. 2 (2019): 117–167.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Racializing Chōsenjin: Science and Biological Speculations in Colonial Korea.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 13 (2019): 489–510.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Blood Purity and Scientific Independence: Blood Science and Postcolonial Struggles in Korea, 1926–1975.” Science in Context 32 (2019): 1–22.
Hyun, Jaehwan. “Tracing National Origins, Debating Ethnic Homogeneity: Population Genetics and the Politics of National Identity in South Korea.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 49 (2019): 351–383.