THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
RESEARCH INTERESTS
America in the World, U.S. military building, U.S.-East Asian relations, development, U.S. military empire, race, culture, the Korean War
BIOGRAPHY
Syrus Solo Jin is the Elihu Rose Scholar in Modern Military History at the Department of History, New York University. His dissertation, "To Make an Army: Militarized Modernity, Advisors, and the Genesis of US Global Power, 1945-1963" earned a pass with distinction from the Department of History, University of Chicago in Summer 2025. As a PhD candidate, he was named a National Fellow for the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, 2023-25.
PUBLICATIONS
"The U.S. Has Never Known What to Do With Foreign Students," Foreign Policy Magazine, April 9, 2025.
"Afterlives of Orientalism: Corporal Punishment and U.S. Military-Building in Korea," Diplomatic History, 26 August 2024.
"The True Horseman of the ‘Fallout’ Apocalypse," Foreign Policy Magazine, May 18, 2024.
"Can the U.S. Rewrite Its Tortured History of Aid to the Philippines? A military long shaped by Washington’s priorities now needs to modernize," Foreign Policy Magazine, August 31, 2023.
“Interpreting Empire: English, U.S. Advisors, and Interpreters in the Korean War,” Journal of American-East Asian Relations vol. 29 n. 4 (2022): 365-390.
AWARDS