Jeffrey Youn

Visiting Professor

Education                                                                         

Ph.D., Binghamton University, Art History

M.A., Boston College, History

B.A., Seoul National University, History and Economics

Research Interest 

Jeffrey Youn is a specialist of early modern East Asian Art and Material Culture. He teaches courses on Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian Art and Architecture, and Urban Space and the Built Environment. His scholarship focuses on the complex role cities played in the dramatic political, socio-economic, and cultural shifts in the great empires of East Asia from the early modern period to the contemporary moment, with an emphasis on Korea. His current research examines early modern trans-regional networks through both ambassadorial and commercial contacts between China and Korea in the 17th and 18th centuries. He traces diplomatic gifts and commodities traded between the two empires and transit infrastructures that supported the trans-regional movement.

Courses Taught 

ARTH 103 Asian Art and Architecture

ARTH 241 Art and Architecture of South Asia

ARTH 242 Art and Architecture of China

ARTH 243 Art and Architecture of Japan

ARTH 265 The City as a Work of Art

ARTH 294 City and Cinema