Seongmin Ahn is a Brooklyn-based Korean traditional folk painter. She holds a BFA and MFA from Seoul National University and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has worked with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Queens Museum of Art, Voelker Orth Museum, the Creative Center for Women with Cancer, and University Settlement.

Jin Young Choi taught at the University of North Carolina for five years before becoming a professor of American literature at Chung-Ang University in Seoul. She was President of the American Studies Association in 2000. She is a graduate of Seoul National University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

John Goulde is professor of religion and director of the Asian Studies Program at Sweet Briar College. He received a B.A. from Seoul National University in Philosophy and Religion in 1975 and a Ph.D. in comparative religion from Harvard University in 1982.

Kumja Paik Kim received her doctorate in Asian Art History from Stanford University in 1982. While teaching at San Jose State University, she was appointed in 1989 to the position of the first Curator of Korean Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. On June 30, 2006 she retired from the AAMSF. During her tenure at the Asian Art Museum she curated eight Korean art exhibitions. In 2007 she served as the special consultant for the new Korean Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and coordinated the MFAH’s publication of the Treasures from the National Museum of Korea. Currently she is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Korean Art and Archaeology published by the National Museum of Korea, Seoul.

Luz Lanzot graduated from New York University with a B.A. in East Asian Studies and History. She is currently Program Officer of Korean Studies and Project Bridge at The Korea Society where she manages professional development programs for educators, coordinates the year-long intercultural youth leadership program Project Bridge, and runs school visits and family programs.

Mark Peterson is head of the Korean Section, Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University. Prior to his appointment at BYU in 1984, he was the director of the Fulbright program in Korea from 1978 to 1983. He is a member of the Association for Asian Studies, where he is the chair of the Korean Studies Committee, as well as the Royal Asiatic Society, the International Association for Korean Language Education, the International Korean Literature Association and the American Association of Korean Teachers. He received a B.A. in Asian studies and anthropology from Brigham Young University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in East Asian languages and civilization from Harvard University in 1987.

Michael Pettid is Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies and Coordinator of Korean Studies at Binghamton University. He received his Ph.D from the University of Hawai‘i, Manoa and teaches courses on Pre-modern Korean Literature and Culture, Women and Korean History, and Confucianism in Korea. His current sabbatical project is entitled, Women and the Rural Economy in Chosŏn Korea: An Examination of Autonomy and Agency in a Confucian Society.

Patricia Rosof is adjunct instructor of history at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, New York, and has worked as a consultant for the College Board and The Korea Society. She has taught social studies at Hunter College High School for nineteen years and is the co-author of Student Preparation Guide for the AP European History Exam.