Nicholas Harkness Published by the University of Chicago Press
Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, has long been a subject of curiosity as well as vigorous theological debate. A worldwide phenomenon that spans multiple Christian...
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 flux: It was a bustling, worldly metropolis into which things and people from all over the country flowed. In this book, Si Nae Park examines how the culture of Chosŏn Seoul gave rise to a new vernacular narrative form that was evocative of the spoken and written Korean language of the time.
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.
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 world in its renowned residential fellowship program. To view the full list of recipients and their projects for the academic year 2019-20, visit the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study web site here.
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,...