Dr. Charles Armstrong
Professor, academic, historian
Charles Armstrong is The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History at Columbia University. He is the former Director of Columbia’s Center for Korean Research and former Acting Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. (1)
Professor Armstrong is the author, editor or co-editor of five books, including most recently Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950 – 1992 (Cornell University Press, 2013) and The Koreas (Routledge: second edition, 2014). (1)
Dr. Armstrong participated in The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards – May 21, 2018, speaking on foreign affairs and national security with his talk “New Day, New Deal for North Korea?”.
(1) Material from the SOAS University of London website.
