CKS congratulates Associate Professor Emeritus Hwasook Nam on receiving the 2022 John K. Fairbank Prize for her monograph Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea (Cornell Univ. Press, 2021). Established by a gift to the American Historical Association from the friends of the prominent historian of China and East

On Thursday, October 20, 2022 from 9-10pm PT (Friday, October 21, 2022 13:00-14:00 KST), Professor Emeritus Clark Sorensen will present at Inha University’s K-Academic Diffusion Research Center’s 2nd Colloquium of 2022-23. Under the theme of “Research Trends of Korean Studies in the United States,”  Sorensen will provide a comprehensive picture of Korean studies in America

On August 4, 2022, UW CKS Director and Professor Emeritus, Clark Sorensen, spoke at the 2022 Korea Foundation Global Korean Studies Forum. Professor Sorensen discussed the history of Korea Studies in the Western US, while also providing perspectives for the field moving forward. Highlighting the incredible support of the Korea Foundation at campuses across the

CKS Faculty member and JSIS Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Social Science, Yong-Chool Ha, joins Professors Akihiro Iwashita and Edward Boyle in editing the forthcoming publication, Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia. Publishing on August 2, 2022, via Taylor & Francis, Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia takes a nuanced approach to the strategic significance of the region. Abstract:

CKS Faculty Member and Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, Heekyoung Cho, has edited and published a book titled The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature. Contributors to the book include new Asian L&L faculty member Dr. Ungsan Kim as well as UW Korean Studies Librarian Hyokyoung Yi, among many others. From the publisher: The Routledge Companion

Two East Asia faculty members are releasing a new book titled Spaces of Possibility; In, Between, and beyond Korea and Japan. Clark Sorensen, who is a Professor and Director of the Center for Korean Studies, and Andrea Gervurtz Arai who is a Lecturer in the Jackson School of International Studies, worked together to create Spaces of Possibility, which is