- Phone:
- 812-855-5545
- Email:
- riachae@iu.edu
- Office:
- Global and International Studies Building, 2012
- Office hours:
- By appointment only
Research Interests
- Modern Korean History
- History of Thought
- Cold War International History
- Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies
- Nationalism and National Identity
- North-South Korea Relations
- U.S.-Korea Relations
Bio
Ria Chae’s research focuses on the history of ideas in modern East Asia and the international history of the Cold War. Her recent articles examine transformations in Korean intellectual thought during the colonial period and post-liberation. Her current book project, The Making of a Cold War in Korea, explores the development of the rivalry between South and North Korea within the broader contexts of the global and East Asian Cold War.
Chae is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at Indiana University and an affiliated researcher with the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. She previously served as a Lecturer in International Studies at Seoul National University (2022–2025) and as a Lecturer in the Department of History at Yale University (2020–2021). Before that, she was a Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (2019–2020), a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Korean Studies at Indiana University (2017–2019), and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore (2016). As a predoctoral fellow, she contributed to building the Cold War International History Archive of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2011–2012).