Education
Ph.D. - University of Chicago 1994
Diploma in Korean Language - Yonsei University 1986
M.Sc. - London School of Economics 1988
B.A. - Yale University 1984

Current Departmental Service
Director of Graduate Studies

Interests and Research
Associate Professor Charles Armstrong specializes in modern Korean, East Asian, and international history. His current projects include a study of North Korea in the Cold War international system and a history of modern East Asia .

Affiliations
Associate Fellow, The Asia Society
Director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University
Member, American Historical Association
Member, Association for Asian Studies
Member, National Committee on North Korea (www.ncnk.org)
Member and founding co-chair, The Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea (www.asck.org)

Courses
The Asia-Pacific in History
The Asia-Pacific Wars
Colonialism and East Asia
Contemporary Civilization in the West
History of Modern Korea
Korean Civilization
Modern Korean History
Nation, Race, and Empire in East Asia
The New Post-Coloniality: Overcoming the West
The Vietnam War as International History

Fellow, Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall - 2006
Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council Travel Grant, 2004
German Academic Exchange Grant, Humboldt University - 2002
Smith-Richardson Junior Faculty Research Grant - 2001
Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Grant - 2000

Books
Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the Cold Wars, 1950 – 1990 (forthcoming, 2009)
East Asia: A Modern History, 1800-2000 (forthcoming, 2010)
The Koreas
Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia
The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950
Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy, and the State

Recent Scholarly Articles
“South Korea: Neo-Liberal Triumph,” New Left Review no. 50 (forthcoming, 2008)
“Inter-Korean Relations in Historical Perspective,” International Journal of Korean Unification Studies vol. 14, no. 2 (December 2005)
“Familism, Socialism and Political Religion in North Korea,” Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions vol. 6, no. 3 (December 2005)
“‘Fraternal Socialism’: The International Reconstruction of North Korea, 1953-1962,” Cold War History vol. 5, no. 2 (May 2005)
“U.S. – North Korean Relations,” Asian Perspective vol. 28, no. 4 (December 2004)
“The Cultural Cold War in Korea,” Journal of Asian Studies vol. 62, no. 1 (February 2003)