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Su-Mi Lee

Dr. Su-Mi Lee (Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2013) is Professor of Political Science in International Relations. Her research interests center around international conflict management, including mediation and negotiation, and space politics. Her upcoming co-edited volume, Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea: Cohesion and Disarray, examines how the dynamics among the six negotiating parties shaped the outcome of North Korea nuclear negotiations.

Professor Lee has held a variety of international fellowships including the Field Research Fellowship of the Korea Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad Program in Chile, and the Emergent Scholar Seminar of the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership in Thailand. She is an Editorial Review Board member at Negotiation and Conflict Management Research.

Sarah Marusek

Sarah Marusek (PhD, UMass Amherst, Political Science 2008) is Professor of Political Science in Public Law at the University of Hawaiʻi Hilo. Her research interests in jurisprudence focus on exploring how law works in everyday life. She has published widely in the areas of law and society, legal semiotics, and legal geography. Her courses include Law, Politics & Society; Legal Geography; Law and Identity; Law, Property and Nature; and Constitutional Law.

Dr. Marusek’s most recent book is Law, Space, and the Vehicular Environment: Pavement and Asphalt (Routledge, 2023) and co-edited volume is Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity, and Critique (Springer, 2021). She is Associate Editor for International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. Professor Marusek is the 2011 recipient of the University of Hawaiʻi Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.