- Assistant Professor
- Phone: 979-845-7151
- Email: cheyeun@tamu.edu
- Office: Melbern G. Glasscock Building 213
- Document: CV
Research Areas
- Empires & Colonialism
- Gender & Sexuality
- Science & Technology
Biography
Che Yeun is Assistant Professor of History, specializing in History of Science and Technology. Her research explores the ideas, tools, and techniques used to manipulate the human body, in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Her work highlights the underexplored connections between science, industry, and consumer culture that have transformed the rituals of cleaning and controlling bodies in everyday life. These rituals, in turn, speak to potent social norms surrounding the smell, color, texture, and shape of bodies that cannot be separated from notions of race, class, gender, and beauty that would mark certain bodies as clean or unclean, desirable or undesirable, and belonging or not belonging.
Her research has been supported by The Science History Institute, Hagley Library, and The Consortium of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
Her research has been supported by The Science History Institute, Hagley Library, and The Consortium of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
Research Interests
Areas of Specialty
- History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
- Race & Gender
- Consumer Culture
Educational Background
- PhD in History of Science, Harvard University 2024