현재환 - 자유전공학부

Education

2018

서울대학교 과학사 및 과학철학 협동과정 박사

2012

서울대학교 과학사 및 과학철학 협동과정 석사

2010

한양대학교 역사학·철학·과학기술학 학사

Career

2026.9 ~ 현재

서울대학교 학부대학 및 과학학과 부교수

2026.3 ~ 2026.9

한양대학교 철학과 부교수

2020.9 ~ 2026.3

부산대학교 교양교육원 조·부교수

2018.9 ~ 2020.8

막스플랑크 과학사연구소 박사후연구원

2018.6 ~ 2020.8

도쿄이과대학 공학부 일한문화교류기금 박사후연구원

2017.3 ~ 2018.2

UCLA 사회와 유전학 연구소 방문연구생

Research Interests

동아시아 과학사(한국 근현대 과학기술사 및 생의료사)
과학기술학(STS)
환경인문학(환경사)

Awards & Activities

2016 한국과학사학회 논문상
2023 부산대학교 윤인구신진연구자상
2023 국제동아시아과학기술의학사학회(ISHEASTM) 주커전 상(Zhu Kezhen Award)

Publications

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.

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