Kevin Ko

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Kevin Ko is a doctoral candidate in Southeast Asian history. He specializes in modern Indonesian social and cultural history, with a particular interest in the history of medicine, comparative religious history, and the history of the body during the late colonial period.

 

His dissertation, entitled Modern Bodies, Modern Souls: Religion, Medicine, and the Public Imagination in Late Colonial Indonesia, examines the history of Christian and Islamic modern healthcare institutions in late colonial Indonesia. It is at once a comparative cultural history of health, religion, and the body among Muslims and Christians in late colonial Indonesia and a social history of cross-religious interactions in the field of medicine and public health during the late colonial period.

 

During the 2015-2016 academic year Kevin is a Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellow in Religion and Ethics.

 

 

Publications:

Ko, Kevin E. “The Anatomical Perspective: Epistemology and Ethics in a Colonial Missionary Clinic.” Comparative Studies in Society and History. January 2016.