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• Curriculum Vitae

  Dr. Se Young Jang is a historian whose research focuses on contemporary Korea and Northeast Asia since 1945. Her work primarily concerns the domestic, regional, and global aspects of nuclear development in the region, including both civilian and military applications of nuclear technology. As a former South Korean diplomat, she worked in the field of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) disarmament and non-proliferation, and was selected as a United Nations (UN) Disarmament Fellow in 2009. She received her Ph.D. in International History from the Geneva Graduate Institute and conducted pre- and post-doctoral research at U.S. institutions, including George Washington University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr. Jang has published her academic and policy-relevant works in various outlets, and is currently engaged in research for her new project on the history between the IAEA and the two Koreas, which is funded by the European Commission under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of History at the University of Vienna, having previously served as Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands from 2019 to 2023.

  • 2023 to present, Senior Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Vienna, Austria (EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow from June 2024)
  • 2019-2023, Assistant Professor (tenured), Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University, the Netherlands
  • 2018-2019, Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, Security Studies Program, MIT, USA
  • 2017-2018, Nonresident Scholar, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA
  • 2015-2016, Nonresident James A. Kelly Fellow in Korean Studies, Pacific Forum CSIS, USA
  • 2015-2016, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA
  • 2014-2015, Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom & International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA
  • 2013-2014, Albert Gallatin Fellow, Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA
  • 2009, UN Disarmament Fellow, United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
  • 2007-2010, Foreign Service Officer, Disarmament & Non-proliferation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea (ROK)
  • 2007, Research Assistant, The Sejong Institute, ROK
  • 2003-2004, Academic Coordinator, Department of International Relations, Seoul National University, ROK
  • 2002-2004, Head of the Research Assistant Team, Research Project led by Seoul National University on “Korea’s Contemporary Foreign Policy, 1948-1997: Collection, Annotation, and Research of Basic Diplomatic Documents” (funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea)
  • 2002 & 2005-2007, Teaching Assistant, Department of International Relations, Seoul National University, ROK
• Social Media

  X: @historian_jang

  Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/se-young-jang-9a21588b

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• Conference Organisation

  • Member of the Program Committee for the 2024 Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Toronto, Canada
  • Organizer of the Panel entitled “Nuclear East Asia and the United States,” the 2023 Annual Conference of the Society for Historians on American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Arlington, Virginia, Unites States
• Research Interests

  • History: International Nuclear History | Diplomatic History | Contemporary History of Korea 
  • Nuclear: Nuclear (Non-)Proliferation | Nuclear Hedging & Latency | Political Economy of Nuclear Energy
  • US and Asia: Security and Politics in East Asia | Alliance Politics | US Foreign Policy towards Asia
• Projects

  • IAEA2KOREAS – The IAEA and the two Koreas: History of the ROK and the DPRK in their challenges and contribution to the international nuclear safeguards and verification regime, funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon Europe, European Commission

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• Memberships

  • Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
  • Association of Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) 
• Reviews

  • International Security 
  • Cold War History
  • Contemporary Security Policy
  • Asia Policy
  • Security Studies
  • Journal of Cold War Studies