SaeHim Park is an art historian and Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research spans contemporary visual and material culture, feminist and disability studies, and environmental humanities across the Asia-Pacific. As an interdisciplinary scholar-teacher, she approaches artists’ interviews and writings as critical sites of theory production, combining close reading, community-based fieldwork, and feminist citational practice.

Park’s first book manuscript, Girl Statue Rush: On Imaging Comfort Women, analyzes the humanitarian and visual logics driving the global circulation of the “comfort women” symbol and its neoliberal commodification in contemporary popular culture. Her second book project, Selling Ocean: A Cultural History of Underwater Access, examines the art and cultural history of geared diving in Cold War South Korea, analyzing how diving institutions and marine tourism shape access to the ocean through intertwined histories of militarization and privatization. Across her research, she is interested in the politics of memory and historical representation, gender-based and state violence, war ruins, salvage, and heritage debates across terrestrial and underwater environments, and critical and feminist pedagogies. Her writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Mortality, Art Inquiries, Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities, Capacious, and Feminist Formations.

She was a Visiting Professor in the Institute of Media Arts at Yonsei University in 2026. Prior to joining CUHK, she was a tenure-track Assistant Professor of History at Xavier University of Louisiana, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). She was awarded postdoctoral fellowships from the University of Toronto, Tulane University, Duke University, Tel Aviv University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently she serves as a member of the Committee on Diversity Practices at the College Art Association.