Faculty News

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...

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...

Nicholas Harkness, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has been named a National Humanities Center Fellow. Harkness was one of 37 scholars, to be selected from more than 400 applicants in the fields of anthropology; classics; comparative literature; East...

Nicholas Harkness, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has been named a National Humanities Center Fellow. Professor Harkness was one of 37 scholars to be selected from more than 400 applicants in the fields of anthropology; classics; comparative...

Professor Paul Chang has been awarded Sociology's 2015 Kahrl Award for excellence in teaching.George Kahrl, '83 established the Kahrl award some years ago in recognition of Professor Stephen Cornell's outstanding commitment to undergraduate education at...

Professor Sun Joo Kim has been named Walther Channing Cabot Fellow for her publication “Voice from the North: Resurrecting Regional Identity Through the Life and Work of Yi Sihang (1672–1736)” (Stanford University Press, 2013). Eight other professors from...

The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the 2014-15 Kim Koo Visiting Professor at Harvard University. Hyangjin Lee, Professor, College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University, will be teaching in the Department of East Asian Languages and...

Wrongful Deaths Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea Compiled and Translated by Sun Joo Kim and Jungwon Kim This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court...

The Sociology Department and the Korea Institute are pleased to announce that Paul Chang will be joining the faculty as Assistant Professor of Sociology from the fall. For more information, please go to: http://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/news/paul-chang...

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