Eugene Y. Park

Eugene Y. Park is an American historian of East Asia, especially Korean politics and society from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century. After studying at UCLA and Harvard, Park completed a postdoc with the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale and has received faculty appointments at the University of California, Irvine, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Nevada, Reno. Park has also taught at Harvard, Korea, McGill, Seoul National, and Yonsei, as well as giving some sixty invited lectures, speeches, or presentations, including the Twenty-Sixth Annual Stanley Spector Memorial Lecture on East Asian History and Civilization at Washington University in St. Louis (2019). He is the author of five books and is interested in genealogy, population genetics, primatology, portraiture, and religious studies. Various high-profile projects have consulted with him, including Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (PBS) and Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem). In 2016, Park co-chaired the Eighth Biennial World Congress of Korean Studies organizing committee.