Professor Dr Martina Deuchler FBA

Fellow type: International Fellow
Year elected: 2006
Sections: Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff48055.php

Summary

Founding Member of Association of Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE)

BA Leiden University, 1957
PhD in History and East Asian Languages, Harvard, 1967
Research in Korea: 1967-69, 1973-75

Awards and Prizes:
1993: Wiam Chang Chi-yon Memorial Award for Korean Studies
1995: Order of Cultural Merit (Eungwan), Republic of Korea
2001: George L. Paik Scholarship Award, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
2008: First Korea Foundation Award for Contribution to Korean Studies
2009: AAS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Asian Studies

Current post

Emerita Professor of Korean Studies, SOAS, University of London

Past appointments

SOAS, University of London Professor of Korean Studies

1991 - 2001

SOAS, University of London Senior Lecturer of Korean Studies

1988 - 1991

University of Zurich Lecturer of Korean Studies

1975 - 1988

Publications

Under the Ancestors' Eyes: Kinship, Status, and Locality in Premodern Korea Harvard Asia Center (Spring 2015)

The Confucian Transformation of Korea (1992) - Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 36, Harvard University

Confucian Gentlemen and Barbarian Envoys: The Opening of Korea, 1875-1885 (1977) - \ University of Washington Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Richard Fardon FBA

Social & Cultural Anthropology, Other Branches West Africa

Professor Simon Swain FBA

Greco-Roman antiquity and its legacy in the East

Professor Megan Vaughan FBA

History, African Languages and Literature, Social History in Africa, Economic History in Africa, History of Medicine in Africa.

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