PUBLICATIONS 

       Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 

• Kwak, C. M. Trick or Treat: Hunting or Embracing Haunting Statue(s) of Peace. The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (Revise and Resubmit) 

• Kwak, C. M. From State Immunity to Survivor-Centered Justice: A Feminist Critique of the Two Rulings for Comfort Women v. Japan. International Feminist Journal of Politics. (Revise and Resubmit)

• Kwak, C. M. Necropatriarchal Vandalism: Symbolic Violence against Comfort Women Memorials Aiming at the Social Death of Victims of Sexual Violence. International Feminist Journal of Politics. (Revise and Resubmit)

• Kwak, M. and Oyuntsetseg, D. (2014). Anti-Hallyu Networks in Mongolia - Focusing on the ‘structural hole in media, social, government Networks’. Journal of Mongolian Studies, 39(0), 271-298.

      Book Chapters 

• Kwak, M. (2014). The Structural Hole in Hallyu and Role of Korean Government. In S. Kim (Ed.). Diplomacy and Security of the Network Era (pp. 404 - 437). Seoul: Sapyoung.

  ISBN13: 9788964357316  

• Kwak, M. (2013). Transformations of French Cultural Diplomacy: Focusing on l’Alliance Francaise. In S. Kim (Ed.) Understanding the World Politics of Information (pp. 240 - 280). Paju: Hanul.

  ISBN: 9788946055834 

  Work in Progress

• Kwak, C. M. Overcoming Liminality through Reworlding: Korean American Protests for Yoon’s Impeachment and the Reimagining of Diasporic Community.

• Kwak, C. M. “A Divorce Counselor, Putting A Marriage Back Together”: U.S. Patriarchal Intervention in the 2015 Japan–South Korea ‘Comfort Women’ Agreement.

• Kwak, C. M. Gendered Resistance and Solidarity: Contesting Yoon Suk-yeol’s Martial Law in South Korea.

• Mnemonic Strategies and Networks in Constructing “Comfort Women” Memorials: Diverging Diasporic Memories and Identities among Korean Americans.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS  

•  Kwak, C. M. (2025, May 29). Gendered Resistance and Solidarity: Contesting Yoon Suk-yeol's Martial Law in South Korea [Conference presentation]. Politics & Gender Conference 2025, Brunswick, NJ, United States.

• Kwak, C. M. (2025, May 9). Overcoming Liminality through Reworlding: Korean American Protests for Yoon’s Impeachment and the Reimagining of Diasporic Community [Conference presentation]. International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST), University of Michigan, MI, United States.

• Kwak, C. M. (2025, April 24). Mnemonic Strategies and Networks in Constructing “Comfort Women” Memorials: Diverging Diasporic Memories and Identities among Korean Americans [Conference presentation]. Conference: “A Mnemonic Turn and the Future of Democratic Politics,” The Memory Studies Network at The New School for Social Research.

• Kwak, C. M. (2025, April 5). ‘I Am a Couple Counselor’: U.S. Patriarchal Mediation in the 2015 Japan–South Korea Comfort Women Agreement [Conference presentation]. Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, United States.

• Kwak, C. M. (2024, April 3-6). Unsilenced Voices of Comfort Women: The 2023 Court Decision to Deny State Immunity of Japan [Conference presentation]. International Studies Association (ISA), San Francisco, CA, United States.

• Kwak, C. M., Lee, M., and Lee, S. (2023, December 1). Exploring the Statue of Peace’s Agency on Solidarity and Backlash for/against Women’s Rights: Feminist New Materialism (FNM) and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) [Conference presentation]. New Approaches to Revolution, Gender, and the Nation in Asia and Beyond, Storrs, CT, United States. https://dailycampus.com/2023/12/04/revolution-gender-and-agency-explored-in-asian-studies/

• Kwak, C. M. (2023, September 3). Disinformation on Comfort Women: Denialism and Memory Battles around the Comfort Women Memorial in San Francisco [Conference presentation]. American Political Science Association (APSA), Los Angeles, CA, United States.

• Kwak, C. M. (2022, April 7-10). Unexpected Women’s Solidarity and Anti-Feminist Backlashes around ‘Fearless Girl’ and the ‘Comfort Women Statue’ [Conference presentation]. Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, United States.

• Kwak, M. (2014, June) Cultural Strategies of Korean Government: Using the Structural Hole in Hallyu [Conference presentation]. Workshop in East Asia, Jinlim University, China.

• Kwak, M. (2013, April 11-14). International Hallyu (Korean Wave) Network Analysis and Korean Public Policy [Conference presentation]. Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, United States.