POSTECH Professor Receives F. Hilary Conroy Award

Jongsik Christian Yi, a professor in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at POSTECH, recently won the F. Hilary Conroy Prize at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in the United States.

Professor Yi received the award for his presentation titled, “Animal Eugenics for Maoism: Tensions between the State and Communes over Animal Breeding Skills in Socialist China,” for the panel, “Labor and Knowledge Production in Modern Northeast Asia,” which he delivered at the AAS conference held in Boston from March 16 to 19, 2023.

Professor Yi received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Korea University and completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University. He has been teaching courses on the history of science, Korean history, and East Asian studies at POSTECH’s Division of Humanities and Social Sciences since August of last year.

The F. Hilary Conroy Award is presented annually to the most outstanding panel presenters at the AAS conference. It was established in honor of Professor F. Hilary Conroy of University of Pennsylvania, for making significant contributions to the development of East Asian studies.

The AAS was established in 1941 and now the world’s largest Asian studies organization, with approximately 3,000 researchers studying Humanities, Social Sciences, and Economics in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Inner Asia.