Gregg Andrew Brazinsky

Gregg Andrew Brazinsky

Department of History,

The GeorgeWashingtonUniversity

801 22nd Street, NW

Washington, DC20052

202-994-0987

Employment

The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (2001-present):

Assistant Professor, Department of History and ElliottSchool of International Affairs. Courses Taught: History 182: U.S. Diplomatic History 1900-Present. History 101: The Cold War in Asia. History 101: The Cold War in the Third World. History 297: Graduate Seminar in U.S.-Asian Relations. History 282: Graduate Seminar on American Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century.

Education

CornellUniversity, Ithaca, New York (1996-2002):

Ph.D. in History (January, 2002). Areas of emphasis: U.S.-East Asian Relations, Korean History, East Asian History, American Diplomatic History. Ph.D. thesis explored U.S.- South Korean cultural and intellectual relations during the 1950s and 1960s. Committee: Thomas Borstelmann (chair), J. Victor Koschmann and Sherman Cochran. Taught course entitled “Nationalism, Modernization and the Quest for Identity in Twentieth Century Korea.” Teaching Assistant for course on American Foreign Relations 1750-1900 taught by Walter LaFeber.

University of Wisconsin – Madison, MadisonWisconsin (1994-1996):

Earned MA in History (spring, 1996). Teaching Assistant for Course on

American Foreign Policy 1900-Present taught by Professor Thomas McCormick.

AmherstCollege, AmherstMassachusetts (1990-1994):

Earned BA in History summa cum laude (May, 1994). Awarded Havighurst Prize for best senior honors thesis in History.

KoreaUniversity, SeoulKorea (1999-2000):

Visiting Researcher at the AsiaticResearchCenter.

Yonsei University, Korean Language Institute, Seoul, Korea (summers 1997 and 1998):

Attended advanced, intensive 10 week Korean language courses.

Recent Honors and Achievements:

Smith Richardson Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2007-2008 ($60,000)

GeorgeWashingtonUniversity, University Facilitating Fund, 2007-2008 ($8032)

George Washington University Institute for Public Policy, 2006-2007 ($8000)

Kluge Fellowship (Library of Congress), 2003-2004 ($35,000).

Association of Asian Studies Grant for Travel to Korea, 2003 ($2400).

Fulbright Scholar (Korea), 1999-2000.

W. Stull Holt Fellowship (Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations), 1999-2000.

Eisenhower World Affairs Institute Fellowship, 1998-1999.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Moody Grant.

MacArthur Foundation/Peace Studies Fellowship, spring 1998.

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships (summers 1997, 1998; fall, 1998).

Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (Cornell), 2001.

Russel Sage Graduate Fellowship (Cornell), 1996-1997.

AmherstCollege Alumni Fellowships, 1994-1996.

Publications

Books:

NationBuilding in South Korea: Koreans, Americans and the Making of a Democracy,

(Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007).

Articles (refereed):

"From Pupil to Model: American economic development policy and the ROK 1961-1968,"

Diplomatic History (January, 2005)

“Koreanizing Modernization: South Korean Intellectuals and American Modernization

Theories,” Michael Latham et. all eds., Staging Growth: Modernization, Development and the Cold War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2003).

Articles (non-refereed):

“The Cold War in East Asia,” The Oxford History of the Modern World, forthcoming.

“Korea,” The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Cold War, forthcoming.

Book Reviews:

David Kang and Victor Cha, Nuclear North Korea, The Journal of Asian

Studies.

William Stueck, Rethinking the Korean War, in The Journal of Asian Studies (May, 2003).

Mitchell Lerner, The Pueblo Incident, in The Journal of Asian Studies (November, 2002).

William Stueck, The Korean War: An International History, in The Journal of Asian

Thought and Society, Volume XXIV, No. 74.