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Faculty Profile: Tae Yang Kwak

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Associate Professor of History

Year Joined RCNJ: 2007

Contact Information:

Education:

  • B.A. University of Chicago
  • M.A. University of Chicago
  • A.M. Harvard University
  • Ph.D. Harvard University

Courses Offered:

  • Korean Cinema and Modern Society
  • The Korean War and the Indochina Wars
  • Modern Korea and the World
  • Introduction to East Asian Civilizations
  • The United States and East Asia
  • Japan: Early Civilization to Modern Revolution
  • Historiography
  • World Civilizations

Teaching Interests:

  • Modern and Premodern Korean History
  • Modern Japanese History
  • US Diplomatic History
  • East Asian Intellectual History
  • Cold War History
  • Comparative Colonial History
     

Research Interests:

  • Modern Korean History
  • The Vietnam War
  • Nation-Building
  • Democratization
     

Recent Publications:

  • Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, politics, and public opinion, 1950-1953 by S. Casey. Journal of world history 20(3): 558-560.
  • Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea’s Democratic Unionism under Park Chung Hee by H. Nam. Journal of Korean studies 15(1): 123-125.
  • “The clash of civilizations: Obfuscating race, history, and culture in ‘300.’” In The Americanization of history: Conflation of time and culture in film and television, ed. Kathleen McDonald.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 192-211.
  • “The Republic of Korea in Southeast Asia: Expanding influences and relations.” In Korea’s changing roles in Southeast Asia, ed. David I. Steinberg, 304-324. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
  • Forthcoming. Korean-Vietnamese relations since the Vietnam War.
  • Korea's changing roles in Southeast Asia: Expanding Influence and Relations, ed. David I. Steinberg. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
  • Forthcoming. The Nixon Doctrine and the Yusin Reforms: American Foreign Policy, the Vietnam War, and the Rise of Authoritarianism in Korea, 1968-1973. Journal of American-East Asian Relations.
  • Koreagate and the Vietnam War.Center for Korean Studies, Kyushu National University (Japan).
  • Belief and Betrayal: Koreagate and Korean-American Relations in the 1970s.
  • 2009. ROK-Vietnamese relations since the Vietnam War. Korea's changing roles in Southeast Asia: Expanding Influence and Relations, ed. David I. Steinberg. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
  • 2008. The Nixon Doctrine and the Yusin reforms: American foreign policy, the Vietnam War, and the rise of authoritarianism in Korea, 1968-1973. Journal of American-East Asian Relations 12(1-2): 33-57.

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SSAIS Office

Location

Office: B213
Phone: (201) 684-7406
Fax: (201) 684-7973

Dean

Hassan M. Nejad, Ph.D.
E-mail: hnejad@ramapo.edu

Hours

Fall / Spring:
Mon. - Fri., 8:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Summer:
Mon. - Thurs., 8:00 - 5:15 p.m.

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