The Nam Center offers its congratulations to two of our faculty: Dr. Youngju Ryu (Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures) and Dr. Jaeeun Kim (Assistant Professor, Sociology) whose books have been recognized by the Association for Asian Studies. 

James Palais Book Prize (Korea):

Ryu, Youngju. 2015. Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee’s Korea. University of Hawaii Press.

Honorable Mention:

Kim, Jaeeun. 2016. Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea. Stanford University Press. Read the #AsiaNow interview with Professor Kim about this book.

See all AAS 2018 Book Prize Winners.