An unprecedented grant—Support for the Establishment of Professorship—from the Korea Foundation, a non-profit that aims to establish a better understanding of Korea throughout the world, will lead to Northeastern University’s first professorship in Korean Studies within the Department of History and the Global Asian Studies Program. CSSH’s Global Asian Studies Program encourages students to look carefully and critically at the complex ways that people in Asian countries have been involved with one another and with the rest of the world in both the past and the present. Likewise, the Department of History emphasizes the study of national and regional histories as well as of the global exchanges between nations, regions, and cultures.
The new, tenure-track professorship will enable the university to address growing student demand for a focus on Korean history, pop culture, geopolitics, and economics. Fostering a more complete understanding of Korean history and culture will help students think more broadly about a critical region in the world and contribute to Northeastern’s focus on solutions for global issues in health, politics, and sustainability. The Department of History will begin the search for a scholar of modern Korean history in the fall of 2026, with an anticipated start date in the fall of 2027.
We are grateful to the Korea Foundation for investing in our students!
