Kyoryen Hwang is a Ph.D. candidate in Science Studies at the Seoul National University. He is interested in history of the experimental life sciences, especially on industrial use of organisms in agriculture and pharmaceuticals. He is working on the dissertation about the global history of the development of typhoid vaccines since 1920s.


PUBLICATIONS
- Hwang, Kyoryen. (2023). Sorting Sex, Controlling Sex: Masui Kiyoshi’s Chicken Research and Experimental System, 1915-1950. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 45(24), 1-25.
- Hwang, Kyoryen. (2021). “Wonjin Rayon Disease” and Two Scientific Lives. Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 21(1), 128-162. (In Korean).


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- Hwang, Kyoryen. (2023, 08). The Mutant People: “Experimental Typhoid” and Vaccine Development by Keio Bacteriologists, 1930-1960. 16th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Hwang, Kyoryen. (2022, 11). Taxonomy as a Privatization Technology: A Case of Oral Typhoid Vaccine Conflict in South Korea. The History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
- Hwang, Kyoryen. (2022, 11). “Strain for Research, Not for Production”: The Development of Typhoid Vaccine in South Korea, 1963-1993. The Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Hwang, Kyoryen. (2022, 10). Sex-sorting Technique and Sex-controlling Research of Masui Kiyoshi. Korean History of Science Society, Seoul, South Korea. (In Korean).
- Hwang, Kyoryen. (2019, 08). Making Industrial Medicine in Korea: Controversy over Occupational Disease Recognition standard, 1988-1993. 15th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (ICHSEA), Jeonju, South Korea.