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Eugene Y. Park
Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History
Director, James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Department of History
College Hall 208
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379 USA
(610) 312-4387, epa@sas.upenn.edu
Curriculum Vitae
January 7, 2015
FACULTY POSITIONS
2009–present
2011–14,
2008–09
2007–09
2008
2000–07
2007
2006
2000
1998–99
Korea Foundation Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Distinguished Visiting Professor, International Summer Institute, Seoul National University
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Visiting Professor, Department of Korean History, Seoul National University
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Visiting Professor, International Division, Yonsei University
Adjunct Professor, Institute of International Education, Korea University
Lecturer, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University
POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
1999
1993
1991
Ph.D., Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
M.A., Committee on Regional Studies—East Asia, Harvard University
B.A., Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Progeny of Fallen Royals: The Kaesŏng Wang in Chosŏn Korea, 1392–1910 (title tentative). Work in progress.
Coeditor with Yi Tae-Jin. Peace in the East: An Chunggŭn and Asia in the Age of Empires (title tentative). Work in
progress.
A Family of No Prominence: The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2014.
Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1600–1894. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
Peer Reviewed Articles
“The Phantasm of the Western Capital (Sŏgyŏng): Imperial Korea’s Redevelopment of P’yŏngyang, 1902–1908.”
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International Journal of Asian Studies. Under review.
“Old Status Trappings in a New World: The ‘Middle People’ (Chungin) and Genealogies in Modern Korea.”
Journal of Family History 38.2 (April 2013): 166–187.
“Chosŏn hugi ŭi mukwa chedo wa Han’guk ŭi kŭndaesŏng” (The Late Chosŏn Military Examination System
and Korean Modernity). In Korean. Han’guk munhwa (Korean Culture) 51 (September 2010): 299–319.
“Saeroun kajoksa ŭi ch’ugu: kŭndae Han’guk ŭi chokpo p’yŏnch’an kwa chungin ch’ŭng ŭi panŭng” [A search
for a new family history: genealogy compilation and the reactions of the chungin stratum in modern Korea]. In
Korean. Trans. Yi Kanghan. Yŏksa munje yŏn’gu (Critical Studies on Modern Korean History) 20 (October 2008):
139–167.
“Imagined Connections in Early Modern Korea, 1600–1894: Representations of Northern Elite Miryang Pak
Lineages in Genealogies.” Seoul Journal of Korean Studies 21.1 (June 2008): 1–27.
“Status and ‘Defunct’ Offices in Early Modern Korea: The Case of Five Guards Generals (Owijang), 1864–
1910.” Journal of Social History 41.3 (Spring 2008): 737–757.
“Military Examination Graduates in Sixteenth-Century Korea: Political Upheaval, Social Change, and Security
Crisis.” Journal of Asian History 35.1 (2001): 1–57.
“Military Examinations in Late Chosŏn, 1700–1863: Elite Substratification and Non-Elite Accommodation.”
Korean Studies 25.1 (2001): 1–50.
“Chosŏn ch’ogi mukwa ch’ulsin ŭi sahoejŏk chiwi: T’aejong-Sŏngjong nyŏn’gan ŭi kŭpcheja rŭl chungsim
ŭro” [The social status of early Chosŏn military examination graduates: passers from the reign of T’aejong
through that of Sŏngjong]. In Korean. Yŏksa wa hyŏnsil (Quarterly Review of Korean History) 39 (March 2001):
100–126.
“Military Examination Graduates in Early Chosŏn: Their Social Status in the Fifteenth Century.” The Review of
Korean Studies 3.1 (July 2000): 123–156.
Edited Volume Chapters
“Japan and Korea.” In The Cambridge History of War, Volume III (1450–1850), edited by Arthur N. Waldron.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Under review.
“Kŭnhyŏndae Han’guk ŭi sinbun ŭisik kwa yŏksa ŭi chuch’esŏng: chŏnmunjik chungin mit husondŭl ŭi
sŏndae insik ŭl chungsim ŭro” [Status consciousness and historical agency in modern Korea: the specialist
chungin and the descendants’ notions of ancestry]. In Korean. In Hwai pudong ŭi Tong Asia hak [East Asian
studies of harmony without uniformity], edited by Sim Chaehun, pp. 97–129. Seoul: P’urŭn Yŏksa, 2012.
“War and Peace in Premodern Korea: Institutional and Ideological Dimensions.” In The Military and
South Korean Society, edited by Young-Key Kim-Renaud, R. Richard Grinker, and Kirk W. Larsen, pp. 1–13.
The Sigur Center Asia Papers Vol. 26. Washington DC: Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington
University, 2006.
“Local Elites, Descent, and Status Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century Korea: Some Observations on the
County Notable Listings in the Chosŏn Hwanyŏ Sŭngnam.” In Han’guksa e issŏsŏ chibang kwa chungang [The
periphery and the center in Korean history], edited by Chŏng Tuhŭi and Edward J. Shultz, pp. 205–225.
Seoul: Sogang University Press, 2003.
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Others
“Mukwa ŭi segye” [The world of military examinations]. In Korean. Han’guksa simin kwangjwa (Citizens’ Forum
on Korean History) 46 (February 2010): 137–153.
“Military: Military Organization in Korea.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World: 1750 to the Present, edited
by Peter N. Stearns, vol. 5, pp. 208–210. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
“A Personal Account of Experiences at the Korean Section.” In The Cradle of Korean Studies at Harvard
University: Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Korean Collection at Harvard-Yenching Library, edited by
Choongnam Yoon, pp. 127–132. Seoul: Ŭryu Munhwasa, 2001.
Book Reviews
Michael Finch. Min Yŏnghwan: The Selected Writings of a Late Chosŏn Diplomat. Berkeley: The Institute of East
Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2008. 316 pp. In Pacific Affairs 82.4 (Winter 2009): 729–730.
Sun Joo Kim. Marginality and Subversion in Korea: The Hong Kyŏngnae Rebellion of 1812. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 2007. 304 pp. In The Journal of Asian Studies 68.3 (August 2009): 1005–1007.
Carole Cameron Shaw. The Foreign Destruction of Korean Independence. Seoul: Seoul National University Press,
2007. 315 pp. In The Journal of Asian Studies 67.1 (February 2008): 331–333.
Michael J. Seth. A Concise History of Korea: From the Neolithic Period through the Nineteenth Century. Lanham:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. 257 pp. In Korean Studies 31 (2007): 84–86.
Yi T’ae-jin. Kojong sidae ŭi chaejomyŏng [Refocusing on the Kojong period]. Seoul: T’aehaksa, 2000. 452 pp. In
The Journal of Asian Studies 63.1 (February 2004): 209–210.
Chŏng Tu-hŭi. Cho Kwang-jo: Silch’onjŏk chisigin ŭi salm, isang kwa hyŏnsil ŭi sai esŏ [Cho Kwang-jo: An activist
intellectual’s life, between ideal and reality]. Seoul: Ak’anet, 2000. 307 pp. In The Journal of Asian Studies 60.4
(November 2001): 1202–1204.
HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
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2012
2011
2011
2010
2008
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2008
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2007–08
University of Pennsylvania Weiler Fellowship ($5,000, one semester of teaching relief)
University of Pennsylvania James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies Faculty Research
Grant ($2,100)
University of Pennsylvania Center for East Asian Studies Faculty Conference Travel Grant
($800)
University of Pennsylvania Center for East Asian Studies Faculty Conference Travel Grant
($400)
University of Pennsylvania Center for East Asian Studies Faculty Conference Travel Grant
($1,000)
UCI School of Humanities Research and Travel Grant ($1,390)
Seoul National University Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies Fellowship ($33,165,
housing, and medical insurance)
UCI School of Humanities Research and Travel Grant ($200)
UCI School of Humanities Research and Travel Grant ($1,110)
Academy of Korean Studies Strategic Initiatives for Korean Studies Grant ($3,080)
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1998–99
1997–98
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1996–97
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1994–95
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Academy of Korean Studies Strategic Initiatives for Korean Studies Grant ($1,050)
UCI School of Humanities Research and Travel Grant ($880)
UCI School of Humanities Research and Travel Grant ($917)
UCI International Center for Writing and Translation Faculty Associate Grant ($800)
UCI School of Humanities Research and Travel Grant ($530)
UCI Center for Asian Studies Grant ($1,000)
UCI School of Humanities Research and Travel Grant ($1,000)
Korea Foundation Advanced Research Grant ($24,353)
Biography included in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2003–2004
UCI Humanities Center Individual Faculty Research Grant ($800)
UCI School of Humanities Research and Travel Grant ($1,500)
UCI Faculty Career Development Award ($1,000, one-course release)
UCI Academic Senate Council on Research, Computing and Library Resources Grant
($1,300)
UCI School of Humanities Research and Travel Grant ($1,200)
Korea Foundation Travel Research Fellowship ($2,400, insurance)
UCI School of Humanities Research and Travel Grant ($500)
UCI Humanities Center Individual Faculty Research Grant ($2,500)
UCI School of Humanities Research and Travel Grant ($1,300)
Postdoctoral fellowship, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University ($30,300)
Korea Foundation Graduate Scholarship ($14,646)
Korea Foundation Graduate Scholarship ($9,000)
Korea Foundation Graduate Scholarship ($9,524)
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship ($8,000)
Fulbright Fellowship ($14,300, insurance, airfare)
Korea Foundation Graduate Scholarship ($16,486)
Harvard Grant ($19,854)
Harvard Korea Institute Summer Research Travel Grant ($1,000)
Harvard Grant ($18,302)
PRESENTATIONS
International Conferences and Workshops
Round-table discussant, International Workshop for the Opening of Sochon Center for Korean Studies, “The
Future of Korean Studies,” July 2013, Seoul, South Korea.
“Impact of Korean Studies Research and Education on the Policies of the United States Government and Its
Relationship with Two Koreas,” paper presented for the panel, “Bridging Theories and Policy,” for the Korea
Foundation Assembly, July 2011, Seoul, South Korea.
“Challenges for Educational Videos on Korean History: A Critique of English-Subtitled Yŏksa Sŭp’esyŏl
Episodes,” paper presented for the section, “Teaching About Korea: Past, Present, and the Future,” at the
Yeongwol-Yonsei International Forum, May 2011, Yeongwol, Gangwon-do, South Korea.
“Korea’s Place in Time and Space,” presentation for joint University of Pennsylvania-Seoul National
University panel, “Korea: From Historical and International Perspectives,” Seoul National University, May
2011, Seoul, South Korea.
“The Late Chosŏn Military Examination System and Korean Modernity” (in Korean), paper presented at the
Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies International Workshop, “Historicity and Identity of 18th–19th-
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century Chosŏn Society: Indices of Change,” Seoul National University, November 2009, Seoul, South
Korea.
“The Empire’s New Capital: P’yŏngyang in Imperial Korea, 1897–1910,” paper presented at the First
Sangmyung University International Symposium in Korean Studies, “Dimensions of Korea’s Modernity,”
Sangmyung University, June 2008, Seoul, South Korea.
“Nonelites and Identity Discourse in Modern Korea: Capital Chungin (‘Middle People’) and Genealogy
Compilation,” paper presented for panel, “Ruling Social Order and Social Classes in East Asia,” at
conference, “East Asia from the Perspective of the ‘Center and Periphery,’” organized by Northeast Asia
History Foundation, December 2007, Seoul, South Korea.
“Social Tension and Military Reform in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1637–1866,” paper presented at “Symposium on
Historical Perspectives on Governmental Innovation in Korea,” organized by Center for Korean Studies,
University of California, Los Angeles, December 2006, Los Angeles, California.
“Local Elites and Status in Nineteenth-Century Korea: Some Observations on the County Notable Lists in
Chosŏn Hwanyŏ Sŭngnam,” paper presented at workshop conference, “New Dimensions in Korean
Historiography,” co-organized by Sogang University Research Center for the Humanities and University of
Hawaii Center for Korean Studies, October 2002, Pohang, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea.
“The Military in Traditional Korea,” Korean Studies Conference, McGill University, April 1999, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada.
Invited Lectures
“Telling a Korean Family History,” Lectures, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham
Young University, September 2014, Provo, Utah.
“Social Status of Specialist Chungin and Notions of Ancestry in Modern Korea” (in Korean), BK21 Plus
Overseas Scholar Lecture Series, Department of History, Ewha Womans University, August 2014, Seoul,
South Korea.
“Descent Group Identities in Modern Korea,” Invited Speaker Series, Center for Korean Studies,
Binghamton University, November 2013, Binghamton, New York.
“Narrating History of a Family without History: The Rise and Fall of the Pak Tŏkhwa-Branch Chungin
Miryang Pak Family and Its Significance” (in Korean), Center for History and Culture, Chonnam National
University, July 2013, Gwangju, South Korea.
“Imperial Korea’s Western Capital (Sŏgyŏng): The Pyongyang Development Project, 1902–08,” Korean Studies
Program Seminar Series, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, May 2011,
Stanford, California.
“Beginnings of Reliable Genealogy and Periodizing Eurasian History,” East Asian Studies Program,
Princeton University, May 2011, Princeton, New Jersey.
“Modern Korea’s Genealogy Discourse and the Specialist Chungin Responses” (in Korean), International
Scholar Seminar, Center for Korean Studies, Inha University, December 2010, Incheon, South Korea.
“Reliability and Social Significance of the Genealogy in Europe and East Asia” (in Korean), Distinguished
International Scholar Lecture, BK 21 Project Group for Korean Studies in East Asia, Inha University,
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December 2010, Incheon, South Korea.
“History Textbook Controversy in South Korea,” Stephen Allen Kaplan Memorial Lecture, Department of
History, University of Pennsylvania, March 2010, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Modern Korea’s New Capital? The Korean Empire’s Pyongyang Development Project,” Monthly Lecture
Series, International Association for Korean Historical Studies, July 2009, Seoul, South Korea.
“Margins of Family History: The ‘Middle People’ (Chungin) as Misfits in Modern Korea’s Genealogy
Discourse,” Korea Workshop, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois, May 2009,
Champaign, Illinois.
“Imperial Korea’s New Capital: Pyongyang on the Eve of the Russo-Japanese War,” Korean Studies
Colloquium, Center for Korean Studies, University of Pennsylvania, April 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“A Search for a New Family History: Genealogy Compilation and Chungin Responses in Modern Korea”(in
Korean), East Asia Forum, Academy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University, May 2008, Seoul,
South Korea.
“A Nation Where Ordinary Families Have No History? Genealogy Consciousness and the Chungin in Modern
Korea” (in Korean), Kyungsung University, May 2008, Busan, South Korea.
“History of German Immigration to America and Understanding the Pluralistic American Society” (in
Korean), Department of German Language Education Guest Speaker Series, Seoul National University, April
2008, Seoul, South Korea.
“Narrating History of a Family without History: The Rise and Fall of the Pak Tŏkhwa-Branch Chungin
Miryang Pak Family and Its Significance” (in Korean), Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies Colloquium,
Seoul National University, April 2008, Seoul, South Korea.
“The ‘Middle People’ and Genealogy Compilation in Modern Korea,” School of Arts and Science, University
of Pennsylvania, February 2008, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Genealogy Discourse and Specialist Chungin Reactions in Modern Korea” (in Korean), Institute of Oriental
Studies Colloquium, Dankook University, December 2007, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
“Korean Studies and Academic Publishing in the United States: The Present State and Future” (in Korean),
Strategic Initiatives for Korean Studies Colloquium, Academy of Korean Studies, November 2007,
Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
“Neither Aristocrat Nor Commoner: Disappearance of the Chungin (“Middle People”) in the Genealogy
Discourse in Modern Korea,” East Asian Studies Colloquium, University of California, Davis, May 2007,
Davis, California.
“Genealogy and the Chungin (‘Middle People’) Response in Modern Korea,” Centre for Korean Research
Lecture Series, University of British Columbia, March 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
“War and Peace in Premodern Korea: Ideological and Institutional Dimensions,” paper presented at Hahn
Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities, “The Military and South Korean Society,” George
Washington University, October 2005, Washington, District of Columbia.
“Status Consciousness in Transition: The Social Backgrounds of Five-Guards Generals (Owijang) in Korea,
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1863–1910,” Korea Institute Colloquium, Harvard University, October 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“Historical Perspective on Genealogy Consciousness in Korea,” Center for Korean Studies Colloquium,
University of California, Berkeley, March 2001, Berkeley, California.
“Military Examinations and Society in Late Traditional Korea,” Council on East Asian Studies Colloquium,
Yale University, February 2000, New Haven, Connecticut.
“Military Examination and Society in Late Traditional Korea,” Department of History, University of
California, Irvine, November 1999, Irvine, California.
“Change in Social Status of the Chosŏn Period Muban” (in Korean), Medieval Korea Section II talk series,
Association of Korean Historians (Han’guk Yŏksa Yŏn’guhoe), August 1999, Seoul, South Korea.
“Military Examination Graduates in Chosŏn Korea, 1402–1894,” Wolfson College, University of Oxford,
May 1999, Oxford, United Kingdom.
“Balkan Peninsula: A Sociopolitical and Religious History” (in Korean), Religious Reformation Festival
Lectures, Chongshin College, November 1995, Seoul, South Korea.
Professional Meetings
“Post-Koryŏ History of the Kaesŏng Wang: A Research Note,” paper presented at World Congress of
Korean Studies (WCKS) Biennial Meeting, November 2014, Honolulu.
Discussant for panel, “Bridging Korea Old and New: Re-Periodizing the History of Korea, Early Times to
1945,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, March 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Reliable Eurasian Genealogies and Dating Korea’s Early Modern Era,” paper presented for panel, “‘Early
Modern’ East Asia: A Defense,” panel chair, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, March
2012, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
“In the Margins: The Specialist Seoul Chungin in South Korea’s History Discourse,” paper presented for
panel, “Nationalism, Historical Subjects, and the Writing of Modern Korean History,” organizer, Association
for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, March 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii.
“History as Progress? Problems of Agency and Modernity in Korean History,” panel chair and organizer,
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, March 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Inventing Tradition in Early Modern Korea: Representation of Northern Miryang Pak Lineages in
Genealogies,” paper presented for panel, “The Northern Region in Korea,” Association for Asian Studies
(AAS) Annual Meeting, April 2008, Atlanta, Georgia.
“Pre-Modern Korea,” panel chair and discussant, Sixth Annual Korean Studies Graduate Student
Conference, Harvard University, April 2001, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“Military Examinations in the Sixteenth Century: Political Upheaval, Social Changes, and Security Crisis,”
paper presented for panel, “New Approaches to Sixteenth-Century Chosŏn History,” organizer, Association
for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, March 2001, Chicago, Illinois.
“Military Examination Passers of Early Chosŏn Korea,” paper presented for panel, “Military in Chosŏn
Korea: Issues of State, Society, and Culture,” organizer, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting,
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March 1999, Boston, Massachusetts.
Community Lectures and Roundtable Discussions
“A Brief Overview of the History of North Korea and Future Prospects,” presentation for History
Undergraduate Advisory Board, University of Pennsylvania, October 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Philip Jaisohn’s Life and Korea, 1864–1951,” keynote speaker, Jaisohn Lecture Series, Philip Jaisohn
Memorial Foundation, September 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Birth versus Merit: Social Status in Joseon Korea,” a special lecture in conjunction with the exhibition, “The
Last Dynasty: Arts and Culture of Joseon Korea, 1392–1910,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 2014,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Chi-hwa-seon (Painted Fire),” Korean Film Series roundtable discussion, Philadelphia Museum of Art, April
2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“The Joseon Dynasty of Korea,” Freeman Foundation National Consortium on Teaching Asia for program
administrators, Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“The Joseon Dynasty of Korea,” Freeman Foundation National Consortium on Teaching Asia for high
school teachers, Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“North Korea in Historical Context,” Wharton School of Business students preparing for a self-organized
visit to North Korea, University of Pennsylvania, February 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Making of Modern Korea: From 1900 to Democracy,” Freeman Foundation National Consortium on
Teaching Asia for high school teachers, University of Pennsylvania, October 2012, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
“Korea: A Historical Overview,” Freeman Foundation National Consortium on Teaching Asia for high
school teachers, University of Pennsylvania, March 2012, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Korea: A Historical Overview,” Freeman Foundation National Consortium on Teaching Asia for high
school teachers, University of Pennsylvania, March 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Korean-American Relations from Historical Perspective,” Korea America Student Conference (KASC),
University of Pennsylvania, July 2010, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Korea and the World,” Associated Students of the University of California, Irvine (ASUCI) Professor
Luncheon Series, University of California, Irvine, February 2009, Irvine, California.
“Issues in Korean History: A Conversation with Professor Eugene Y. Park,” a talk given for Campus Village
Community Center, University of California, Irvine, May 2007, Irvine, California.
“How Asia Views America,” roundtable discussion during Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)
Symposium, University of California, Irvine, May 2001, Irvine, California.
SERVICE
Professional
Eugene Y. Park
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2009–present
2007–present
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Association for Chosŏn Dynasty History—Director of International Affairs
Kyujanggak—editorial board member
International Association for Korean Historical Studies—international committee member
Seoul Journal of Korean Studies—editorial board member
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies—article manuscript reviewer
University of Hawaii Press—book manuscript reviewer
Department of History, Stanford University—reviewer of tenure case
National Institute of Korean History—Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty English
Translation Project advisory board member
Philadelphia Museum of Art— “The Last Dynasty: Arts and Culture of Joseon Korea, 1392–
1910” exhibition advisory group member
Department of History, Claremont McKenna College, reviewer of tenure case
Yŏksa hakpo—editorial board member
Department of History, Brigham Young University—reviewer of tenure case
“Statement from Scholars in North American Concerned about Korean Democracy”—
steering committee member
Academy of Korean Studies—member, International Advisory Committee for the Strategic
Initiative for Korean Studies
Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University—reviewer of tenure
case
War and Society—article manuscript reviewer
Seoul National University—member, Division of Academic Affairs task force on foreign
faculty recruitment
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada—proposal evaluator, Standard
Research Grants Program
Journal of Korean Studies—article manuscript reviewer
East Asia Program, Cornell University—book manuscript reviewer
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University—reviewer of
promotion case
Comparative Korean Studies—editorial board member
Korean Studies—article manuscript reviewer
Journal of Korean Studies—article manuscript reviewer
East Asia Program, Cornell University—book manuscript reviewer
Western Association of Schools and Colleges—evaluator, Senior College Commission
University
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Graduate Group, International Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Director, Penn-in-Seoul, University of Pennsylvania
Director, James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies (formerly Center for Korean
Studies), University of Pennsylvania
Executive Committee, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Graduate Group, History, University of Pennsylvania
Fulbright Fellowship applicant interviews, Office of the Provost, University of
Pennsylvania
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania—
reviewer of pre-tenure reappointment case
Y. H. Park Fellowship application review committee, Office of the Provost, University of
Pennsylvania
Edo Japan History search committee, Department of East Asian Languages and
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Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
Executive Committee, Center for Asian Studies, University of California, Irvine
Fulbright Campus Committee, Office of Graduate Studies, University of California, Irvine
Korean Literature search committee, Department of East Asian Languages and
Literatures, University of California, Irvine
Faculty Advisory Committee, Humanities Center, University of California, Irvine
Department
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2010–12
2005–06
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2004
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2001–02
2000–01
Executive Committee, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Tenure review committee for Si-yen Fei, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Modern Chinese History search committee, Department of History, University of
California, Irvine
Faculty panelist for information session on graduate program in history, Department of
History, University of California, Irvine
Accelerated merit increase review committee for R. Bin Wong, Department of History,
University of California, Irvine
Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Southeast Asian History search committee, Department of History, University of California,
Irvine
James Joo-Jin Kim Program Postdoctoral Fellow Mentoring
2012–13
2011–12
Sharon J. Yoon, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Saeyoung Park, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
James Joo-Jin Kim Program Visiting Fellow Mentoring
2014–present
2014–present
2012–13
Hanul Lee, Ph.D. candidate, Sungkyunkwan University
Deokhwan Cho, Ph.D. candidate, Sungkyunkwan University
Youjin Lee, Ph.D. candidate, Seoul National University
Ph.D. Student Advising
2014–present
2013–present
2011–present
2010–present
2010–present
2012–13
Rolf Siverson, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander Martin, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Holly J. Stephens, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Seok Lee, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
Jae-ho Shin, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of
Pennsylvania
Jooyeon Hahm, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
M.A. Student Advising
2012–14
2011–13
Mi Jeong Jo, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of
Pennsylvania
Barom Chon, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Major Advising
2014–present
Joseph J. Kiernan, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
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2014–present
2011–13
Melissa Tustin-Gore, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Kyle Bryce-Borthwick, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Phoebe Jean-Pierre, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. Dissertation Committees
2013–present
2012–present
2010–present
2009
2007
Holly J. Stephens, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Seok Lee, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
Jae-ho Shin, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of
Pennsylvania
Ronald S. Dubay, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Michael Wert, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Qualifying Examination Committees
2014–present
2014–present
2013–present
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2012–13
2011–13
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2009
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Rolf Siverson, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Thaya Saxby, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander Martin, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Hegwood, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Jooyeon Hahm, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Holly J. Stephens, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Seok Lee, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
Jae-ho Shin, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of
Pennsylvania
Miri Kim, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Pierre Fuller, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Jennifer Liu, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Hyeok Ki Min, Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine
Woong Lee, Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine
Bu Sik Choi, Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine
Christina Ghanbarpour, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Kathryn Merkel-Hess, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Wensheng Wang, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Michael Wert, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Ronald S. Dubay, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Graduate Student Independent Study Supervision
2013
2012
2011, 2012
2012
2011
2011
2010–11
2010–11
2011
2011
2010
Bo Kyung Blenda Lim, Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania
Jooyeon Hahm, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Hegwood, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Mi Jeong Jo, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of
Pennsylvania
Barom Chon, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of
Pennsylvania
Holly J. Stephens, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Glyn Truscott, Lauder Program, University of Pennsylvania
Seok Lee, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Meaney, Lauder Program, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Araujo, Lauder Program, University of Pennsylvania
Wai Kit Wicky Tse, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of
Pennsylvania
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Undergraduate Research and Independent Study Supervision
2014–present
2010–13
2012
2011–12
2010–11
2006–07
2005
2004–06
2004
Kristie Oh, Bryn Mawr College
Solbi Choi, University of Pennsylvania
Elaine Song, University of Pennsylvania
Megan Dickson, University of Pennsylvania
Jooyeon Hahm, University of Pennsylvania
Hannah Lim, University of California, Irvine
Michael Chung, University of California, Irvine
John Song Lee, University of California, Irvine
Heidi Eun Kim, University of California, Irvine
Community
2014–present
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013–14
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012–13
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
2006, 2008
2002–08
2007
2006
2006
2006
2004–06
2004–06
2003–04
2002
2002
1999
1993–94
Family history research for Matt Park
Family history research for Michael M. O. Seipel
Family history research for Tina Chong
Consultant, Family Search International, The Genealogical Society of Utah
Educational trip sponsor, organizer, and leader, visits to historical and cultural sites in
Ganghwa, South Korea
Family history research for Merrylyn Sawyer
Interview by Stephen Park, independent research, Gifted and Talented Research Program
Family history research for Lucia Park
Educational trip sponsor, organizer, and leader, visits to historical and cultural sites in
Seosan and Taean, South Korea
Private lecture to Republic of Korea National Assemblyman Ahn Cheol-soo
Family history research for Leah Forbes Ignagni
Family history research for Jeanette Pesco
Family history research for James Chung
Family history research for David Choi
Family history research for Amy Miller
Family history research for Jihyung Ahn
Family history research for Dalli Chung Bacon
Korean Education Center in Los Angeles–textbook manuscript reviewer
Family history research for Min Pyŏnghŭi
Family history research for Haelim Park
Family history research for Kim Sŏngbae
Review of Patrick E. Patterson’s private research notes on a painting by Kim Hongdo
(1745–n.d.), “The Scene of Government Service Examination”
Family history research for Tae Won Park
Family history research for Janice Kim
Family history research for Pak Sunsik
Family history research for Andrew Park
Family history research for John S. Lee
Faculty advisor for UCI Korean Graduate Student Association
Family history research for Heidi Kim
Family history research for Tynn Joey Park
Family history research for Victor Choi
Family history research for Jacob Koo
Family history research for Chungmoo Choi
President, Harvard Korea Society
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MEDIA CONSULTING AND INTERVIEWS
Program Production Consulting and Interviews
2011–13
2012
2009
2008
2007–08
Ark Media, USA—documentary consultant and interviewee for Finding Your Roots with Henry
Louis Gates, Jr., PBS
Richard Lucchesi—interviewee for a documentary film on the American Dream and the
Korean Dream (title to be announced)
Maya Weimer—documentary consultant and interviewee for New Seoul Cartographies
Wall-to-Wall Productions/George IV Productions, USA—documentary consultant for Who
Do You Think You Are?
Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)—member, faculty advisory board on selecting Yeoksa
seupesyeol [Korean history special] series episodes for English subtitling
Extramural News Interviews
“Kim, Park And Lee: Why Do Koreans Have So Few Surnames?.” International Business News, November 15,
2013.
“An Exclusive Interview with Professor Eugene Park, Director of the Korean Studies Program at the
University of Pennsylvania.” K Konnect.net: Connecting All Things Korean—From San Diego (September 2012): p.
99.
“Kojong, P’yŏngyang ch’ŏndo koryŏ haessŭl sudo” [Kojong may have considered moving the capital to
Pyongyang]. In Korean. Yŏnhap Nyusŭ (Yonhap News Agency), July 17, 2009.
“Han chŏngbu yŏksa kyokwasŏ sujŏng yogu, Chung, Il ŭi yŏksa waegok kwa tarŭl pa ŏpta” [Korean
government’s demand for history textbook change, nothing different from history distortions by China and
Japan]. In Korean. Kyŏnghyang sinmun (The Kyunghyang), November 30, 2008.
“Kuksahakkwa taehagwŏn, ch’ŏt Yŏngŏ suŏp” [A Korean history department’s graduate program, its first
English-language instruction]. In Korean. Munhwa ilbo (Munhwa Ilbo), February 22, 2008.
“Sŏuldae Kuksahakkwa, Yŏngŏ kangŭi handa” [Seoul National University’s Department of Korean History
offers English-language course]. In Korean. Kyŏnghyang sinmun (The Kyunghyang), February 22, 2008.
“Korean Studies Programs.” In Focus, Arirang TV, December 15, 2007.
“Han’gukhak ŭl malhanda: Oegugin Han’gukhakcha 4 myŏng ‘Kyujanggak taedam’” [Talking about Korean
Studies: ‘Kyujanggak conversation’ with 4 foreign Korean Studies scholars]. In Korean. Chungang ilbo
(JoongAng Ilbo), October 17, 2007.
“North Korea’s test draws global focus: Few are surprised by nuclear test, but it shows a failure of diplomacy,
a UCI expert says.” Orange County Register, October 10, 2006.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea, 2008–11
Association for Asian Studies, since 1998
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International Association for Korean Historical Studies, since 2009
Southern California Association for Korean Studies, 2007–09