Kyu-hyun Jo received his Ph.D. in Modern Korean and East Asian History from the University of Chicago in June 2019. His research interests are in Korea-US relations, US-East Asia relations, the Cold War, decolonization, and the Korean War. He is also interested in using social science theories for historical analysis. Dr. Jo is currently a lecturer in Political Science at Yonsei University, where he teaches East Asian International Relations and its connection to Korea. From 2020 to 2021, he was a research associate at the Northeast Asian History Foundation, a nationally endowed research institute in Korea dedicated to studying Korea's international relations in connection with maritime issues, where he studied and researched on Dokdo's history and the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the San Francisco System. He was also a lecturer in world history at George Mason University Korea, where he taught world history from1500 with a focus on trade, disease, and globalization. He has publishedarticles in the Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, Territory, Governance, Politics, Acta Koreana, and the Brown University Journal of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics among others. He is also the author of Japanese Judicial Imperialism and the Origins of the Coercive Illegality of Japan's Annexation of Korea: A Study of Unequal Treaties Between Korea and Japan, 1876-1910 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023).