scholars Professor of Korean Studies
Haboush attended Ewha Womans University and studied English literature in Seoul. She studied Chinese literature at the University of Michigan, where she graduated with an Master of Arts Haboush obtained her Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University in 1978 under Professor Gary Ledyard.
Haboush was the King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University when she died on January 30, 2011. in Chinese Literature under the supervision of Professor James Crump in 1970. She went on to teach at Queens College of the City University of New York, The University at Albany, and the University of Illinois before her return to Columbia as a professor in 2000. Culture and the State in Late Chosŏn of Korea (2003).
