Committee on Korean Studies

People

The Committee on Korean Studies Executive Board consists of five members elected by the CKS membership to serve three-year terms. The CKS has a multi-layered leadership structure, in which each board member takes charge of a project(s) along with its attendant subcommittee(s).

The current Executive Board members are:

Pil Ho Kim (Publication Director; Ohio State University; 2024-2027; kim.2736@osu.edu)

Michael Kim (Program Director; Yonsei University; 2023-2026; mkim@yonsei.ac.kr)

CedarBough K. Saeji (Vice Chair; Pusan National University, 2024-2027; c.saeji@gmail.com)

Sixiang Wang (Chair/Website Manager; UCLA; 2023-2026; six@ucla.edu)

Vladimir Tikhonov (Vice-Program Director; University of Oslo; 2024-2027; vladimir.tikhonov@ikos.uio.no)

Previous Board Members

Don Baker (Former Chair; University of British Columbia, 2015-2018; don.baker@ubc.ca)
Koen De Ceuster (Leiden University; 2013–2016; K.de.Ceuster@hum.leidenuniv.nl)
Hwisang Cho (Emory University; 2021-2024;hwisang.cho@emory.edu)
Cheehyung Harrison Kim (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa; 2021-2024; chk7@hawaii.edu)
Chris Hanscom (University of California, Los Angeles; 2009–2012; chanscom@ucla.edu)
Todd Henry (Former Chair; University of California, San Diego; 2010–2013; tahenry@ucsd.edu)
Kelly Jeong (Former Chair; UC Riverside; 2011-2014; ; kelly.jeong@ucr.edu)
Dal Yong Jin (Simon Fraser University, 2018-2021; djin@sfu.ca)
George L. Kallander (Former Chair; Syracuse University; 2013–2016; glkallan@maxwell.syr.edu)
Janice C. H. Kim (Former Chair; York University, 2015–2018; jkim@yorku.ca)
Jisoo M. Kim (George Washington University, 2018-2021; jsk10@gwu.edu)
Joy Kim (University of Southern California; 2009–2012; joykim@usc.edu)
Sonja Kim (State University of New York, Binghamton; 2010–2013; skim@binghamton.edu)
Hwasook Nam (University of Washington; 2009–2012; hsnam@uw.edu)
Robert M. Oppenheim (University of Texas at Austin, 2017-2020; rmo@austin.utexas.edu)
Sunyoung Park (Former Chair; University of Southern California, 2017-2020; sunyoung.park@usc.edu)
Wayne Patterson (St. Norbert College, 2014-2017; wayne.patterson@snc.edu)
Youngju Ryu (University of Michigan; 2013–2016; yjryu@umich.edu
CedarBough K. Saeji (University of British Columbia, 2017-2020; c.saeji@gmail.com)
Maya Stiller (University of Kansas; 2020-2024; mstiller@ku.edu)
Sem Vermeersch (Seoul National University; 2011-2014; sem_ver@hotmail.com)
Travis Workman (former Chair; University of Minnesota; 2020-2023; tworkman@umn.edu)
Sohoon Yi (Kyungpook National University; 2020-2023; sohoon.yi@knu.ac.kr)

In Memorium

Kevin O’Rourke (1939-2020)

By Bruce Fulton Kevin O’Rourke’s passing has deprived us of our most accomplished translator of Korean literature, past and present, prose and poetry. His published translations…

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