
Genie Yoo
Genie is a PhD Candidate in History at Princeton University. She specializes in the history of Southeast Asia and works at the intersection of history of science, medicine, religion, and the environment. She is currently completing her dissertation, entitled “Mediating Islands: Ambon Across the Ages.” Before arriving in Princeton, she received an MA in Southeast Asian Studies at Cornell University and a BA in Ethnomusicology (“Music & Culture”) at the University of California at Riverside. Seoul-born and SoCal-raised, she is eager to bring cross-Pacific, Southeast Asian voices to the fore as a research curator for Visualizing the Virus. Her work on the Visualizing the Virus project is sponsored by Princeton’s Program in History of Science.