Professor Young-Hwi Yoon

Young-Hwi Yoon is an Associate Professor and the current Chair of the Department of History at Kyungpook National University in South Korea.

After completing his MA in History at Seoul National University, he received his PhD in History and Comparative American Studies from the University of Warwick. His essay, “The Spread of Antislavery Sentiment through Proslavery Tracts of Evangelicals from the 1730s to 1770s,” which stems from his doctoral thesis, was awarded the Sydney Mead Prize of the American Society of Church History in 2012.

Prior to joining Kyungpook National University, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, Seoul National University and a senior research fellow at the Ministry of National Defence, the Korean government, where he conducted research on important topics in the 18th and 19th century British and American Studies, including the transatlantic slave trade, the antislavery movement, impact of evangelicalism on the political changes in Britain, and the formation of moral capital. In 2018, Professor Yoon was awarded the Korean Historical Association’s Best Essay Prize for his essay on the creation of slavery records and collective memories, focusing on John Wesley’s Arminian Magazine.

In his proposed project for the visiting fellowship of Clare Hall, “The Convergence of Crisis and Moral Capital: Evangelical Abolitionism in the Late Eighteenth Century,” Professor Yoon will continue his research on the combination of ‘moral capital’ and a religious sense of crisis in the British antislavery movement.