Bruce Cumings is an historian, and professor at the University of Chicago, specializing in modern Korean history and contemporary international relations in East Asia. A historian is a person who studies history. ... The University of Chicago is a private university principally located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1890 and opened in 1892. ... Joseon dynasty court architecture This article is about the history of Korea. ... International Relations (IR), a branch of political science, is the study of foreign affairs of and relations among states within the international system, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and multinational corporations (MNCs). ... Geographic scope of East Asia East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. ...

In his youth, Cumings was a Peace Corps volunteer in South Korea. He was one of the founding members of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars and published extensively in its journal Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. His father conducted research for the CIA. He is married to Meredith Jung-En Woo, a professor of Political Science, specializing in Korean politics, at the University of Michigan. Peace Corps volunteers usually serve for two years. ... Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars Statement of Purpose BCAS Founding Statement We first came together in opposition to the brutal aggression of the United States in Vietnam and to the complicity or silence of our profession with regard to that policy. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Meredith Jung-En Woo is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. ... Political science is a social science discipline that deals with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. ... This article is about the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ...

His research focus is on 20th century international history, relationships between the U.S. and East Asia, the East Asian political economy, modern Korean history, and American foreign relations. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: History For other senses of this word, see history (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... Geographic scope of East Asia East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. ... Political economy was the original term for the study of production, the acts of buying and selling, and their relationships to laws, customs and government. ... Joseon dynasty court architecture This article is about the history of Korea. ... President of the United States, George W. Bush (right) at Camp David in March 2003, hosting the British Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...

Although Cumings has been criticized by some for a "left leaning view on East Asia" and it has been said that "his stance is further characterised by sometimes rather uncritical adoption of nationalistic Korean interpretations of historical facts," he is still considered by many to be among the most influential experts on the region. One of his cited merits is his thorough analysis of American and Western perceptions of Korea. Cumings' scholarship is especially impressive in large part thanks to his extensive use of originaly Korean-language materials. Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ...

Books

The Origins of the Korean War (2 vols). Princeton University Press,1981, 1990.

War and Television.Verso, 1993.

Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History. Norton, 1997.

Parallax Visions: American-East Asian Relationsat the End of the Century.

North Korea: Another Country. New Press, 2004.

External links

• Faculty Profile on the University of Chicago's website
• Endgame in Korea - 2002 article by Cumings
• Archive of articles published in the The Nation.
• Wrong Again - 2003 article about US policy on North Korea published in London Review of Books