Clark W. Sorensen

Clark W. Sorensen has been a Professor of International Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington since 1992, and recently announced his retirement in the Spring of 2020. Clark remains the Director of the Center for Korea Studies for three more years and will continue to teach some classes as Professor Emeritus. He has adjunct appointments in Anthropology and Women’s Studies, and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Studies.

He received his B.A. in Geography in 1970 from the University of California, Berkeley, his M.A. in Korean Studies in 1974, and his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1981, both from the University of Washington.

He is author of Over the Mountains are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization (University of Washington Press 1988), and has published articles in Journal of Anthropological Research, Anthropos, Comparative Education Review, and other journals. He is editor of the monograph series Korean Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies published by the University of Washington Press, and also is editor of The Center for Korean Studies Publication Series that is distributed by University of Washington Press. The most recent title in the latter series is Rethinking the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979, co-edited with Hyung-A Kim of Australian National University.