Min Kyung Lee, PhD, is an associate professor in the Growth and Structure of Cities Department at Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia. Her current research concerns spatial practices of the Korean diaspora in the United States, especially related to the wig and plywood industries. She has previously written on the relations between mapping and architecture from the late eighteenth century to the present. Her forthcoming monograph, The Tyranny of the Straight Line: Mapping Modern Paris (Yale University Press, 2024), situates the emergence of orthographic representations in their scientific, cultural, and historical contexts. Her research has received support from several awards and institutions; most recently, the Banister Fletcher Global Fellow at the University of London Institute in Paris, Queen Mary University of London and The Bartlett School of Architecture, and faculty fellowships at the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania and the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. She is currently a New Directions Mellon Foundation Fellow.
