TAE YANG KWAK

Assistant Professor of History
B.A. University of Chicago
M.A. University of Chicago
A.M. Harvard University
Ph.D. Harvard University

Year Joined RCNJ: 2007

Courses Offered:

• HIST 308: Korean Cinema and Modern Society,HIST 309: The Korean War and the Indochina Wars, HIST 310: Modern Korea and the World, HIST 277: Introduction to East Asian Civilizations, HIST 278: The United States and East Asia, HIST 279: Japan: Early Civilization to Modern Revolution, HIST 201: Historiography, and HIST 110: World Civilizations
  

Teaching Interest:

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

Research Interest:

• Modern Korean History, the Vietnam War, Nation-Building, and Democratization
  

Recent Publications:

• 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.
  
• 2008.  Five poems by Chang Chŏng-il.  Azalea: A Journal of Korean Literature and Culture, v. 2, eds. David R. McCann and Young-Jun Lee.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
• 2008.  Nation building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the makings of Democracy by G. Brazinsky.  Pacific Affairs 81(3): 478-479.
  
• 2007.  A troubled peace: U.S. policy and the two Koreas by C.J. Lee.  Political Science Quarterly 122(2): 338-340.
• 2006. The Anvil of War: The Legacies of Korean Participation in the Vietnam War  PhD diss. Harvard University