Lim and Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the School of International Service at American University. Dr. Lee’s research focuses on Korean politics and foreign policy, East Asian security, the diplomatic history of East Asia, and international relations theory. Prior to AU, she was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College and previously taught at Georgetown University and Oberlin College. From 2005 to 2010, she was co-contributor of Japan-Korea relations for Comparative Connections, the Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies. She was a POSCO Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center and a non-resident James Kelly Korean Studies Fellow with the Pacific Forum CSIS.