Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States / edited by Seung-kyung Kim, Michael Robinson, and Clark W. Sorensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kim, Seung-Kyung, 1954- editor.

Robinson, Michael Edson, editor.

Sorensen, Clark W., editor.

Series:

Center For Korea Studies Publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace Corps (U.S.)--Korea (South).

Peace Corps (U.S.).

Volunteers.

Korea (South)--History--Study and teaching (Higher).

Korea (South).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations (black and white) ;

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : Center for Korea Studies, [2020]

Summary:

"Among the scholars who have built the field of Korean studies are former Peace Corps volunteers who served in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s before pursuing advanced degrees in anthropology, history, and literature. These scholars, who formed the core of the second generation of Korean Studies scholars in the US, reflect in this volume on their personal experience of serving during Korea's period of military dictatorship, on issues of gender and the Peace Corps experience, and on how random assignment to Korea sparked fascination and led to lifelong professional involvement with the country. Two chapters by Korean studies scholars who were not Peace Corps volunteers (one American and one Korean) assess how Peace Corps volunteers have influenced development of the field"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Seung-kyung Kim and Michael Robinson

1. Kwangju, trauma, and the problem of objectivity in history-writing / Don Baker

2. How the Peace Corps changed our lives / Edward J. Baker

3. On being part of the Peace Corps generation in Korean studies / Donald N. Clark

4. A road less traveled: From Rome to Seoul via the Peace Corps / Carter J. Eckert

5. Serendipity, Ugŏn, and Inyŏn / Bruce Fulton

6. Did women have a Peace-Corps-Korea experience? / Laurel Kendall

7. At the border: Women, anthropology, and North Korea / Linda Lewis

8. Empathy, politics, and historical imagination: A Peace Corps experience and its aftermath / Michael Robinson

9. Peace Corps-Korea Group K-I: Empowering to serve as new voices in Korean studies / Edward J. Shultz

10. A Korean perspective: Peace Corps volunteers, Europe, and the study of Korea / Okpyo Moon

11. Cultural immersion, imperialism, and the academy: An outsider's look a Peace Corps volunteers' contribution to Korean studies / Clark W. Sorensen

Afterword / Kathleen Stephens.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295748146

0295748141

OCLC:

1164583458