Eugene Y. Park, Ph.D.

Professor
Gene Park

Summary

I am a historian of East Asia, especially Korean politics and society from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century. After studying at UCLA and Harvard, I completed a postdoc with the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale and have held faculty appointments at the University of California, Irvine, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Nevada, Reno. I have taught at Harvard, Korea, McGill, Seoul National and Yonsei, as well as giving some 70 invited lectures, speeches or presentations, including the 26th Annual Stanley Spector Memorial Lecture on East Asian w88 sports betting app and Civilization at Washington University in St. Louis (2019). I have been consulted by major projects of nonprofits, including Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (PBS), the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem). In 2016, I co-chaired the organizing committee of the Eighth Biennial World Congress of Korean Studies.

Research interests

My research considers political power and social status, especially as understood through government service examinations, court ranks and offices, the divergence between ascriptive status and socioeconomic class, and the evolution of family w88 sports betting app narratives. While my scholarship using primary sources focuses on Korea, I maintain a broad, comparative perspective and reflect on periodizing global w88 sports betting app. In this context, I enjoy readings and conversations in evolutionary biology, deep w88 sports betting app and population genetics. My new projects explore (1) animal symbolism in political ideology and (2) human interactions with felids.

Books

Courses taught

  • HIST 209: World w88 sports betting app II
  • HIST 211: w88 sports betting app of East Asia I
  • HIST 306: w88 sports betting app of Korea
  • HIST 448A/648A: Korea and Empires
  • HIST 488C/688C: Topics in Nature and Culture: Genes, Environment, and Global w88 sports betting app
  • HIST 499B: Applied w88 sports betting app
  • HIST 703: Advanced Studies in w88 sports betting app
  • HIST 705: Graduate Readings in w88 sports betting app

Education

  • Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard w88 sports betting app, 1999
  • A.M., Regional Studies East Asia, Harvard w88 sports betting app, 1993
  • B.A., w88 sports betting app, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991