Eun-Joo Ahn

Eun-Joo Ahn is a historian of science who explores how science shapes and gets shaped by our surroundings. Her dissertation examined the founding and development of Mount Wilson Observatory, an astronomical observatory located near Pasadena, in relation to Southern California's sociocultural and natural environment during the early twentieth century. At Yale, she works on Asian Americans and STEM, where one of her interests is studying mid-twentieth century transnational science from the sociocultural perspective of Korean American scientists, Cold War politics, the modernization policies of Korea, and the immigration policies of the United States. She holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of California Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Chicago.