Donald N. Clark, Professor
 

Dr. Clark teaches courses on China, Japan, Korea, and the history of American foreign relations. He also serves as Director of Trinity's International Studies Program. His research focuses on Korea, where he has spent much of his life as the son of missionaries, a Peace Corps volunteer, Social Science Research Council fellow, and Fulbright scholar. 

Don was born in South America and educated in international schools in Colombia, Japan, and Korea. His B.A. is from Whitworth College and his M.A. and Ph.D. are from Harvard University. A short version of his doctoral dissertation appears in the Cambridge History of China. He is co-author of two books on the history of Seoul city, editor of several volumes on Korea including one on the 1980 democracy uprising in Kwangju, and author of a book on Korean Christianity.  Greenwood Press has just published his book Culture and Customs of Korea, and he has just completed a book called Living Dangerously in Chosen:  The West in Korea, 1900-1950.  He is also working with Conrad Schirokauer and Barbara Brooks on a new edition of Schirokauer's Modern East Asia textbook to be published by Harcourt Brace Publishers.

At Trinity, Don is the Fulbright Program coordinator and advises several student groups including Model United Nations and the Korean Students Association. 


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COURSES TAUGHT BY DR. CLARK
 
HIST 1371       History of China
HIST 1372       History of Japan
HIST 3313       History of Korea
HIST 3314       History of Vietnam
HIST 3303       U.S. Diplomatic History
Cold War Resource Sites:
http://cwihp.si.edu/working-papers-pre.htm
History Korea:

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hoffman/DPRK.html
HIST 3371       The Chinese Revolution
Related Websites: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gate/

http://www.pbs.org/pov/hongkong/
INTL 4301       Senior Seminar in International Studies
INTL 3162       Model United Nations


 

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