We are pleased to announce that Theodore Hughes, the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities and the Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University, has received a Heyman Center Fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic year. Funded by the Office of the Executive Vice-President of the Arts & Sciences at Columbia University, the Heyman … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes New Faculty Member Weiping Wu
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Weiping Wu, Professor of Urban Planning at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and Director of the M.S. in Urban Planning Program, to the WEAI faculty. Before joining Columbia in 2016, Professor Wu was Professor and Chair in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan Talks to the Washington Post About China’s Influence in Asia
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, was quoted in the October 31, 2017 Washington Post article "Xi Showed His Hand, Now It's Trump's Turn to Play His Cards in Asia." The article is about Xi Jinping's recent address at the 19th Communist Party Congress that asserted that China should play a more dominant role in Asia. … [Read more...]
Sheena Greitens’ Study of the WEAI “Dictators and Their Secret Police” Wins APSA and ISA Best Book Awards
We congratulate Sheena Chestnut Greitens, assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri, whose Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence was named the co-winner of the 2017 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) Section on Comparative … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen to Deliver the Third Annual Judith Ladinsky Lecture at the University of Wisconsin – Madison
Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, will deliver the Third Annual Judith Ladinsky Lecture at the University of Wisconsin - Madison on Friday, October 20, 2017. Professor Nguyen's lecture is titled "Rethinking the Tet Offensive Fifty Years Later." Although the Tet Offensive … [Read more...]
