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Charles Armstrong
International Affairs Building, Room 930
Associate Professor of History; Director, Center for Korean Studies
Phone: 212-854-1721
www.columbia.edu/~cra10/
cra10@columbia.edu
Biography:
Charles K. Armstrong is an associate professor of history and the director of the Center for Korean Studies. Professor Armstrong specializes in modern Korean history and politics, the international history of East Asia, and ideology and international relations.
His published works include The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950 (Cornell 2003); Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy, and the State (Routledge 2002); "The Cultural Cold War in Korea" in the Journal of Asian Studies (February 2003); "America's Korea, Korea's Vietnam," in Critical Asian Studies (December 2001); and "The Origins of North Korean Cinema," in Acta Koreana (January 2002).
Professor Armstrong received his BA from Yale University in 1984 and his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1994.