Affiliation Categories

There are currently three categories of affiliation in the Korea Institute. Affiliates contribute to the academic diversity of the Institute, and are encouraged to participate in all Korea Institute activities and to be actively involved in the Harvard community. A Visiting Scholar appointment allows full-time professors on leave from other universities to carry out a research project in association with Harvard faculty and facilities. Associate in Research appointments are for scholars in the Boston area who work in the Korea field. Associates in Research may be given access to Harvard Libraries upon request. A limited number of Visiting Associate appointments was created for non-academic professionals to conduct a research project of a scholarly nature at Harvard. Visiting Associates are expected to work closely with Harvard faculty, and are allowed access to Harvard facilities. There are two periods of affiliation for which applications are accepted by the Institute's executive committee. Contact the Institute for more information on deadlines and requirements.

Alice Amsden is Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Political Economy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research is in the area of developing world economies. She has been an Associate in Research at the Korea Institute since 1995.

Seong-Jin An first came to Korea Institute as a Post-doctoral Fellow in 1998. Since then he has continued his research as an Associate in Research. He revised his dissertation Farming on the Asphalt: Patterns of Korean Peasant Resistance to the State in order to publish it. In this work, Dr. An studies peasant resistance in a Korean village in order to measure the influence of three variables on peasant political behavior: the state, economic conditions, and peasant cultural autonomy. Dr. An is also preparing two anthropological research projects in Korea. One is to explore the economic and political influence of globalization (e.g., WTO and so-called IMF crisis) on environmental movements by organic farmers. The other will study the life and culture of migrants from a village to Seoul in order to evaluate the effect and result of the Korean economic development and globalization since the 1960s.

Kyunghwan Choi first came to Harvard as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in the area of Pre-Modern Korean Literature. He has been an Associate in Research of the Korea Institute since 1998. His teaching and research interest is in the area of studying the discourse of the novel in the late Choson Period.

Chai-sik Chung is Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University School of Theology. His research is in the area of religion and intellectual history in the context of modernizing and globalizing change in Korea.

Sung-Yoon Lee, Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, is working on a book on the Syngman Rhee administration.

Stephen W. Linton, is Chairman of the Eugene Bell Foundation. The Eugene Bell Foundation has offices in the US and Korea and focuses on medical, educational, academic, and humanitarian exchanges with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). Eugene Bell focuses, primarily, on the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis and has partnered with a wide variety of other organizations to provide nutritional supplements, medical equipment, medical supplies and medicines.

Wayne Patterson is Professor of History at Saint Norbert College in Wisconsin. While a Visiting Scholar at the Korea Institute, he is teaching Korean history at the University of Pennsylvania during the spring semester one day a week. He recently published his second book, The Ilse: First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000). He has been appointed Visiting Professor of Korean History at Harvard for the spring semester 2001, teaching Modern Korea (Korean History 114) and Korean-American Relations (Korean History 253r).

Kenneth R. Robinson is currently the Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Korea Institute. He is a historian specializing in Choson-period foreign relations. His publications examine the Choson court's interactions with Japanese and with Jurchens between 1392 and 1592. An Assistant Professor of History at International Christian University, in Tokyo, he teaches courses in Korean history, Japanese history, and East Asian international relations history.

James Thomas first came to Korea Institute as a Post-doctoral Fellow in 1996. Since then he has continued his research as an Associate in Research. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of social change, social movements, social identity, popular culture, and visual culture. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College.