Genie Yoo
PhD
Research Interests
History of Southeast Asia; History of Science; History of Medicine; History of Indonesia; Indian Ocean World; Islamic Studies; Imperialism and Colonialism; Translation Studies; Plant Humanities; Global History
Education
- PhD, Princeton University, History, 2022
- MA, Princeton University, History, 2016
- MA, Cornell University, Southeast Asian Studies, 2014
- BA, University of California at Riverside, Music & Culture, 2010
Current Research
I am a historian of island Southeast Asia, working at the intersection of history of science, medicine, and religion. My current book project, Botany on the Tongue: Plants, Empire, and Knowledge-Making in Colonial Indonesia, explores the entwined history of European and Indigenous knowledge about plants, medicine, and the body in the spice islands of Indonesia. In addition to the history of colonial science and medicine, I am interested in the history of translation processes, particularly as they relate to Malay and Arabic manuscript cultures; history of information networks and knowledge circulation in cross-cultural contexts; and Islam in the Indian Ocean and Malay world.
Selected Publications
Genie Yoo, “Wars and Wonders: The Inter-Island Networks of Georg Everhard Rumphius,” The British Journal for the History of Science 51:4 (2018), 559-584.
Awards and Fellowships
Plant Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, 2024
Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellowship, Indiana University – Bloomington, 2023
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, European Research Council Project, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2022
Short-Term Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 2021
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship, 2020-2021
Fulbright U.S. Student Research Award for Dissertation Research, 2018
Van de Sande Fellowship, Scaliger Institute, Leiden University, 2017
Foreign Language and Asian Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 2014