Albert L. Park, Ph.D.

Bank of America Associate Professor of Pacific Basin Studies

Department

History

Areas of Expertise

Design & Architecture

East Asian History & Political Economy

Environment

Korean History

Modern Japanese History

Albert.Park@ClaremontMcKenna.edu

https://cmc.academia.edu/httpwwwclaremontmckennaeduacademicfacultyprofilephpFac510

(909) 607-3931

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Biography

Albert L. Park is the Bank of America Associate Professor of Pacific Basin Studies at Claremont McKenna College. As a historian of modern Korea and East Asia, his current research project focuses on the roots of environmentalism in modern Korean history and its relationship to locality and local autonomy. This book project is tentatively titled Imagining Nature and the Creation of Environmental Movements in Modern Korea. He is the author of Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea and is the co-editor of Encountering Modernity: Christianity and East Asia. Dr. Park is the Co-Principal Investigator of EnviroLab—a Henry Luce Foundation-funded initiative at the Claremont Colleges ($1.5 million award) that carries out research on environmental issues through a cross disciplinary lens. Alongside being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Asian Studies, he is the Co-Editor of the book series Environments of East Asia--an open-access, multidisciplinary book series on environmental issues in East Asia that is published by Cornell University Press and supported by a grant from The Henry Luce Foundation. He is the recipient of four Fulbright Fellowships for Research, an Abe Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)/Japan Foundation and fellowships from the Korea Foundation and the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago. A native of Chicago, he received his B.A. with honors from Northwestern University, an M.A. from Columbia University and Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago.

Education

B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Chicago

Awards and Affiliations

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

The Henry Luce Foundation Grant to Support Environments of East Asia--A Book Series Published by Cornell University Press ($240,000), February 2021

Fulbright Research Fellowship to South Korea (Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant, CIES), 2018-2019

Abe Fellowship (Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership), 2017/18-2022

LIASE Implementation Grant for EnviroLab Asia (Henry Luce Foundation), $1.4 million, 2017-Present

EnviroLab Asia at the Claremont Colleges--Exploration Grant from Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE, Henry Luce Foundation), $100,000, 2015-2016

Association for Asian Studies NEAC Korean Studies Grants Short-Term Research Travel Outside North America, Spring 2014

Fulbright Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship, 2010-2011 (Yonsei University, Institute for State Governance Studies)

Korea Foundation Field Research Fellowship, 2010-2011--Awarded

Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Award, 2006-2007--Awarded

Fulbright Hays Doctoral Research Abroad, 2002-2003 (Yonsei University, Institute for Korean Studies)

Fulbright IIE Fellowship (Korea)--Awarded

AFFILIATIONS

Co-Founder and Co-Editor, Environments of East Asia--a multidisciplinary book series on environmental issues in East Asia (Cornell University Press)

Associate Editor of Journal of Asian Studies (JAS)

Board Member of McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL

Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Member (2016-2019), Chair (2018-2019)

Award Committee Member for American Historical Association John K. Fairbank Book Award

Steering Committee for Alliance for Scholars Concerned about Korea (ASCK)

Research and Publications

BOOKS

Forces of Nature: New Approaches to Korean Environments, Co-Edited with Eleana Kim and David Fedman (Environments of East Asia Book Series, Cornell University Press), forthcoming

Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea (January 2015, University of Hawai'i Press)

Encountering Modernity: Christianity in East Asia and Asian America, Albert L Park and David Yoo, eds. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2014)

EXHIBITION PROJECT

CiViChon 1.0: City in a Village (Vienna Biennale 2021, MAK, Vienna Austria) Albert L. Park, Kyong Park and Annie Pedret (Project Directors), website: https://civichon.com/

CiViChon 1.0: City in a Village (Catalogue book for exhibition at Vienna Biennale 2021, MAK, Vienna, Austria), Albert L. Park, Kyong Park and Annie Pedret (Project Directors) and Kyong Park (Editor of Exhibition Catalogue)

ARTICLES, PAPERS AND ONLINE ESSAYS

"A Recycling of the Past or the Pathway to the New? Framing the South Korean Candlelight Protest Movement," for the Forum "The South Korean Candlelight Protest Movement and Its Discontents," The Journal of Asian Studies, forthcoming (February 2022), co-organizer, editor and author

"Korean Studies in the Global Humanities: A Roundtable Discussion, Stephen Choi, Kira Donnell, Theodore Hughes Albert L. Park, Alyssa Park, Evelyn Shih, Serk-Bae Suh, Christina Yi," The Journal of Korean Studies, October 2019

"Introduction to a Forum on War and the Environment on the Korean Peninsula" and “The Reshaping of Landscapes: Systems of Mediation, War and Slow Violence,” The Journal of Asian Studies, May 2018

***Part of the JAS Mini-Forum “War and Environment in the Korean Peninsula, 1598-1965,” Organizer and Editor

“Olympic Do-Over: How Olympic Redevelopment Erased South Korea’s Past, Twice,” Edge Effects (published by the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) at the University of Wisconsin), February 15, 2018 (published online)

"Social renewal through the rural: Agricultural cooperatives in South Korea as a form of critiquing capitalism," Global Environment 9 (2016)

"Reclaiming the Rural: Modern Danish Cooperative Living in Colonial Korea, 1925-37," Journal of Korean Studies, 19-1 (Spring 2014)

“What We Need to Understand in Order to Design Inclusive Rural Development,” Policy Context Briefs. Published by the Pacific Basin Research Center, Soka University, 2012

"The Politics of Designing Agrarian Affairs in South Korea," On Korea (Published by the Korea Economic Institute), January 2012

ARTICLES IN EDITED BOOKS