Bruce Cumings

Professor Bruce Cumings is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History at the University of Chicago. He has also taught at Swarthmore College, University of Washington, and Northwestern University, where he has lectured on modern Korean history, twentieth-century international history, US-East Asian relations, East Asian political economy, and American foreign relations. Cumings' first book, The Origins of the Korean War, won the John King Fairbank Book Award and the second volume won the Quincy Wright Book Award. Other awards include the Kim Dae Jung Prize and Excellence in Graduate Teaching from the University of Chicago and fellowships from NEH, MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Center for Advanced Study, and Abe Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council.