Genie (Jin Hee) Yoo is a postdoctoral researcher for the ERC project, "Textual Microcosms: A New Approach in Translation Studies," in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Genie works at the intersection of history of science, medicine, religious studies, and the history of the book, and has an abiding interest in European and indigenous cross-cultural knowledge production in island Southeast Asia (17^th - 20^th c.). As a postdoctoral researcher, she plans to examine interlinear translations in Malay- and Arabic-language manuscripts from Indonesia and to explore vernacular epistemologies of science and medicine, in relation to local Islamic practices, through a close study of this translation process. She is also interested in the role of language and translation in the history of inter-religious dynamics in the eastern archipelago under Dutch colonialism. 

Genie received her PhD and MA in History at Princeton University, MA in Southeast Asian Studies at Cornell University, and BA in Ethnomusicology at the University of California in Riverside. She is excited to work collaboratively with colleagues and scholars during her time at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem!