Faculty News

The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the 2017-18 Kim Koo Visiting Professor at Harvard University. Tae Gyun Park, Kim Koo Visiting Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2017-18 (Headshot image of Dr. Tae Gyun Park) In academic year...

(Image of Emeritus Prof.David McCann giving a talk at the Busan International Literature Festival 2018.) David McCann, who is an Emeritus Professor of Korean Literature from Harvard University, has recently participated in the 7th Busan International...

(Image of Prof, Nicholas Harkness.) Professor Nicholas Harkness, Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, was awarded a 2018 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize. This year’s honorands, nominated by the society’s undergraduate members, selected by its...

The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing Si Nae Park Published by Columbia University Press As the political, economic, and cultural center of Chosŏn Korea, eighteenth-century Seoul epitomized a society in...

Please join us in congratulating Professor Yoon Sun Yang and Professor Hwansoo Kim, who will each be honored with 2020 AAS Book Awards for their recent monographs, all published by the Asia Center Publications Program. Professor Yoon Sun Yang has been...

Paul Y. Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, has been named Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Each year, the Radcliffe Institute hosts leading scholars, scientists, and artists from around the...

Professor Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, has been awarded the 2017 Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship for his recent publication, Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism 1866-1945 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard...

“Score One for the Dancing Girl, and Other Selections from the Kimun Ch'onghwa: A Story Collection from Nineteenth-Century Korea” Translated by James Scarth Gale Edited by Ross King and Si Nae Park Annotations by Donguk Kim Published by University of...

The Korea Institute is pleased to welcome Professor Ji-Eun Lee as Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations during the Spring 2017 semester. Professor Ji-Eun Lee is the author of Women Pre-Scripted: Forging...

Announcing a new book: “Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945” Published by Harvard University Press (for website link, click here). Description: For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the...