Dr. Solomon studies the Japanese colonization of Korea and her research interests include gender, education and student activism. Her dissertation, Imperial Lessons: Discourses of Domination and Dissent in the 1929 Kwangju Student Protests, examined the relationship between language, power, and public space in two different public student protest movements that began in colonial Korea, both originating from the southwestern city of Kwangju. Her current book manuscript, The Modern Korean Student as Dissident: Identity, Discourse and Dissent in Colonial Korea, explores how colonial rule and student identity evolved in complex and mutually constitutive ways throughout Japanese colonization and how the legacies of colonial-era student unrest affect post-colonial social protest on the Korean peninsula.