2020 CKR AKS Postdoctoral Fellow This year we welcome the Center for Korean Research/Academy of Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow Kyung Yoon "Becky" Bae. Keung Yoon “Becky” Bae is a PhD candidate in Harvard’s East Asian Languages and Civilizations program, focusing on East Asian film and media. Her dissertation focuses on film regulation under the Japanese empire. She has … [Read more...]
2020 CKR Manhae Prize for Korean Language Winners This year's Center for Korean Research Manhae Prize for Korean Language winners are Ariella Napoli (Barnard College) and Nicole Sim (Barnard College). Ariella is a senior at Barnard College majoring in East Asian Studies and minoring in Religion with a concentration in Early Modern Korean History. With the generous support of … [Read more...]
Professor Seong Uk Kim receives the Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant Award CKR congratulates Seong Uk Kim, recipient of the Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant Award, awarding him $15,000 towards his field research in Korea. His manuscript, “Evolving Tradition: revisiting the Buddhist-Confucian relationship in East Asia” (tentative), investigates the invention and … [Read more...]
2019 CKR Manhae Prize for Korean Language Winners This year's Center for Korean Research Manhae Prize for Korean Language winners are Clarissa Macias(Barnard College) and Haejin Park (Columbia College). Clarissa is a graduating senior majoring in East Asian Studies with a concentration in Modern Korean History. Due to the generosity of Barnard and Columbia, Clarissa had the … [Read more...]
CKR congratulates Ariella Napoli, McJimsey Student Paper Award recipient, on her paper, "Plurality within Singularity: Choson Korea's Neo-Confucian Framework," published in ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts. Napoli will be attending the 2019 ASIANetwork 27th Annual Conference to present her work. Napoli is a Junior at Barnard College in the … [Read more...]