SaeHim Park is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research spans visual and media studies, feminist and disability studies, and environmental humanities across the Asia-Pacific. As an interdisciplinary scholar-teacher, her embodied knowledge and community-based fieldwork serve as the foundation of her scholarship.

SaeHim 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, draws from her training and practice as a professional scuba diver to examine how diving certification systems, military tourism, and media platform structure access to the ocean. It traces the privatization and aestheticization of underwater environments and their ramifications for the knowledge production, society, and the world. Her writings on art, media, and pedagogy have appeared or are forthcoming in Mortality, Art Inquiries, Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities, Capacious, and Feminist Formations.

Prior to CUHK, she was a tenure-track Assistant Professor of History at Xavier University of Louisiana, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). She earned her PhD from Duke University in Art, Art History & Visual Studies, with graduate certificates in Information Science + Studies; Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies; East Asian Studies at the Asia-Pacific Studies Institute; and College Teaching. She received and declined postdoctoral fellowships from the University of Toronto, Duke University, Tulane University, Tel Aviv University, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2024), as well as publication grants and residential fellowships from the Bassi Foundation and the Sue-Je Lee Gage Sunlit Residency (2024).

She has served on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committees of the College Art Association (CAA) and SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference). At CUHK, she teaches courses in visual culture, environmental media, and digital/public humanities.