Speaker
PARK Jihang
- Affliation
- Northeast Asian History Foundation
- Title
- President
Biography
Jihang PARK graduated from the Department of Western History at Seoul National University and received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. As a historian specializing in British history, she lectured at Pratt University in New York and Inha University, and served as professor at SNU from 1992 to 2018. She held research positions at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and the University of Cambridge, England. She served as president of the British Historical Association, a member of the National Institute of Korean History, director of the Seoul National University Library, and a member of the Presidential Special Committee on Humanities and Culture. Her publications are prolific, including British History - The Drama of Conservatism and Reform, Imperialism, Sad Ireland, The Road to Modernity, and From Equality to Fairness, Winston Churchill, Walking with Destiny.