Carter J. Eckert is an American academic and author and the Professor of

Korean History The Lower Paleolithic era in the Korean Peninsula and Manchuria began roughly half a million years ago. Christopher J. Norton, "The Current State of Korean Paleoanthropology", (2000), ''Journal of Human Evolution'', 38: 803–825. The earliest ...

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Early life and education

Eckert was born in

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

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. He attended

Lawrence University Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the U.S. to be founded as a coeducati ...

, where he studied Western ancient and medieval history. Eckert then undertook graduate studies, earning a

Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Th ...

in 1968. After graduating from Harvard, Eckert worked as a

Peace Corps The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance. It was established in March 1961 by an executive order of President John F ...

Volunteer in Korea. He later returned to the United States to undertake doctoral study in Korean and Japanese history at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...

.Korean Institute Profile: Carter J. Eckert
— Harvard University

Career

Eckert joined Harvard University in 1985. In 2004, Eckert was named the first SBS Yoon Se Young Professor. The Yoon Se Young Professorship was established in honor of Yoon Se Young, the chairman of the Seoul Broadcasting System. Eckert has consulted for the

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North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...

n matters.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Carter Eckert, OCLC/

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encompasses roughly 8 works in 10+ publications in 5 languages and 1,000+ library holdings. * ''Korea, old and new: a history'' (1990) * '' Offspring of Empire: The Koch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945'' (1991); (2004). Winner

John K. Fairbank Prize The John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History is offered annually for an outstanding book in the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan, substantially after 1800. It honors the late John K. ...

* ''Hanʼguk kŭndaehwa, kijŏk ŭi kwajŏng'' (한국근대화) ''Modernization of the Republic of Korea: a Miraculous Achievement'' (2005) * Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945 (2016)

Honors

American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional s ...

John K. Fairbank John King Fairbank (May 24, 1907 – September 14, 1991) was an American historian of China and United States–China relations. He taught at Harvard University from 1936 until his retirement in 1977. He is credited with building the field of Ch ...

Prize *

Association for Asian Studies The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is a scholarly, non-political and non-profit professional association focusing on Asia and the study of Asia. It is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. The Association provides members with an Annu ...

John Whitney Hall Book Prize The John Whitney Hall Book Prize has been awarded annually since 1994 by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Pioneer Japanese studies scholar John Whitney Hall is commemorated in the name of this prize. The Hall Prize acknowledges an outstandi ...

, 1994John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, list
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Woodrow Wilson Center The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (or Wilson Center) is a quasi-government entity and think tank which conducts research to inform public policy. Located in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Was ...

for International Scholars, 1996–1997

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External links

Korean Institute Profile: Carter J. Eckert
— Harvard University
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Profile: Carter J. Eckert
— Harvard University {{DEFAULTSORT:Eckert, Carter Harvard University alumni Harvard University faculty Historians of Korea Koreanists Lawrence University alumni Living people University of Washington alumni Year of birth missing (living people)