Hyunhee Park

Hyunhee Park (Ph.D. Yale University) is a Professor of history at the City University of New York, John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She specializes in the history of cross-cultural contacts in East Asia and the Islamic World, in Sino-Islamic contacts in particular, in the Mongol Empire, and global history, focusing on information/knowledge transfers, including transfers of geographical knowledge, foodways, and distillation technologies. She authored Mapping the Chinese and Islamic...See more

Hyunhee Park (Ph.D. Yale University) is a Professor of history at the City University of New York, John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She specializes in the history of cross-cultural contacts in East Asia and the Islamic World, in Sino-Islamic contacts in particular, in the Mongol Empire, and global history, focusing on information/knowledge transfers, including transfers of geographical knowledge, foodways, and distillation technologies. She authored Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds: Cross_x0002_Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia (2012), Soju: A Global History (2021), and 30 articles for academic journals and edited volumes. See less