Da Hyung Jeong is a historian of 20th-century architecture whose multidisciplinary work explores transnational, transregional and trans-ideological connections while engaging with discourses on the environment, coloniality, race and affect. He earned his PhD from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, where his dissertation investigated the rise of architectural postmodernism in the multiple ‘peripheries’ of the Soviet empire, particularly in Soviet Central Asia. His research has received support from the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, where he was a 2021-2022 Predoctoral Fellow, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. At MoMA, he held the Mellon-Marron Museum Research Consortium Fellowship, which allowed him to conduct curatorial research in connection with and contribute to the catalogue of the recent exhibition The Project of Independence: Architecture and Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985.

Jeong received his doctorate in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in 2024 with a dissertation titled “Soviet Architectural Postmodernism, 1977-1991.” He previously earned a bachelor's in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. 

In Spring 2025 he will teach a course titled, Modern Architectures in Context: Cities in Asia.

Jeong's fellowship is supported by the Mellon Foundation, Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Institute for International and Regional Studies.