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Yangmo Ku

Assistant Professor
School of International Service

  • Dr. Yangmo Ku’s research and teaching interests include historical reconciliation in East Asia and Europe, East Asian politics, International Relations of East Asia, inter-Korean relations, human rights, and transnational activism. He has been a Korea Foundation Research Fellow; a Georg-Eckert Institute Research Fellow; and a visiting research fellow at Seoul National University as well as Temple University Japan Campus. His work has appeared in Asian Perspective, the Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, and Asian Politics & Policy.

  • Degrees

    PhD, George Washington University; MA, George Washington University; BA, Sogang University (Seoul, Korea)

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Teaching

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

  • Research Fellowship, Georg-Eckert-Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany, 2009
  • Research Grant for Journal Article Publication, Association of Korean Political Studies, 2008
  • Hoffman Dissertation Award, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, 2008
  • Korea Foundation Fellowship for Field Research, 2008

Selected Publications

  • Book Review of Northeast Asia's Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory by Mikyoung Kim and Barry Schwarz in Asian Politics & Policy, Vol. 3, No. 3 (June 2011): 475-77.
  • The Politics of Historical Memory in Germany: Brandt's Ostpolitik, the German-Polish History Textbook Commission, and Conservative Reaction in Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2010): 75-92.
  • International Reconciliation in the Postwar Era, 1945-2005: A Comparative Study of Japan-ROK and Franco-German Relations in Asian Perspective, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Fall 2008): 5-37.    

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