Chung Hyun-Back is a Professor of History at Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul, Korea. She earned her B.A. from the Department of History Education, College of Education, Seoul National University, her M.A. from the Department of Western History, Graduate School of Seoul National University, and her Ph.D. from the Department of History, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany. She is a Co-Representative of the Citizen's Peace Forum. She was also Co-Representative of Korea Women's Association United(KWAU) from 2001 to 2007 and People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy(PSPD) from 2010-2015. She was the Chief-Editor Women and Society, published by Changbi-Sa from 1987 to 2001. She was also General Secretary of the Korean Committee of the International Historian's Congress. From June 2004 to June 2004, she was President of the Korean History Education Society.
She has published over 100 journal and conference papers and co-authored over 15 books. Among books she has authored are Labour Movement and Worker's Culture(in Korean); Feminism and Nationalism (in Korean); The Kunst dem Volke oder dem Proletariat: Das Beispiel der Freien Volksbühnenbewegung in Berlin 1890-1914 (in German).