The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the 2016-17 Kim Koo Visiting Professor at Harvard University.
Sung Ho Kim (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yonsei University where he was Director of the Social Sciences Research Institute until recently. Previously, he was a professor of political science at Williams College and the University of California. His primary field of research is political, social, and legal theories; he is also interested in Korean, Japanese, and East Asian politics and history in general. He is the author of Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society (2004/2007) and Making We the People (2015), both published by Cambridge University Press. He is a recipient of the Leo Strauss Award of the American Political Science Association and an editorial board member of Max Weber Studies (London).
The Kim Koo Visiting Professorship at Harvard University was established by the gift of Dr. Ho Youn Kim and Mrs. Mee Kim of the Kim Koo Foundation, in honor of the memory of Kim Koo, the famous Korean patriot, and president of the exiled Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea during Korea’s colonial occupation by Japan.