Eugene Y. Park

Eugene Y. Park is an American historian of Korea. After studying at UCLA and Harvard, Park completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale and has held 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, and has given over 60 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). The author of seven books, Park is also interested in genealogy, population genetics, primatology, portraiture, religion, and philosophy. 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 organizing committee for the Eighth Biennial World Congress of Korean Studies.