性视界传媒

Associate Professor of History

Year Joined RCNJ: 2007

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7216
• Email: tkwak@ramapo.edu
• Office: A-208
• Office Hours: TWF 12:30-1:30 pm

Education:

• B.A. University of Chicago
• M.A. University of Chicago
• A.M. Harvard University
• Ph.D. Harvard University

Courses Offered:

• Korean Cinema and Modern Society
• The Korean War and the Indochina Wars
• Modern Korea and the World
• Introduction to East Asian Civilizations
• The United States and East Asia
• Japan: Early Civilization to Modern Revolution
• Historiography
• World Civilizations

Teaching Interests:

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

Research Interests:

• Modern Korean History
• The Vietnam War
• Nation-Building
• Democratization

Scholarly Activity:

Articles & Book Chapters

• 鈥淭he Vietnam War, Protest, and Democratization in South Korea.鈥澨� In听Protest in the Vietnam War Era, ed. Alexander Sedlmaier. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
• 鈥淗an鈥檊uk 怒i Bet怒nam ch艔njaeng chaep鈥櫯弉gga [Reevaluating Korean Participation in the Vietnam War].鈥� Y艔ksa pip鈥檡艔ng听[Critical Review of History] 107 (Summer 2014): 202-232.
• 鈥淭he Clash of Civilizations: Obfuscating Race, History, and Culture in 鈥�300.鈥欌�澨� In The Americanization of History: Conflation of Time and Culture in Film and Television, ed. Kathleen McDonald, 192-211.听 Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.
• 鈥淭he Republic of Korea in Southeast Asia: Expanding Influences and Relations.鈥澨� In Korea鈥檚 Changing Roles in Southeast Asia, ed. David I. Steinberg, 304-324.听 Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009.
• 鈥淭he Nixon Doctrine and the Yusin Reforms: American Foreign Policy, the Vietnam War, and the Rise of Authoritarianism in Korea, 1968-1973.鈥澨�听Journal of American-East Asian Relations听12.1-2 (2003): 33-57.

Translations

• 鈥淔ive Poems by Jang Jung Il.鈥澨� In Azalea: A Journal of Korean Literature and Culture 2, 253-270.听Cambridge, MA: Korea Institute, Harvard University, 2008.
• 鈥淔ive Poems by Kang 努n-gyo.鈥澨� In The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry, ed. David R. McCann, 225-230.听 New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.

Dissertation

• The Anvil of War: The Legacies of Korean Participation in the Vietnam War.听 PhD diss., Harvard University, 2006.