Bruce Cumings

Bruce Cumings
Cumings in 2012
Born	(1943-09-05) September 5, 1943 (age 80) Rochester, New York, U.S.
Awards	John K. Fairbank Prize (1983) Quincy Wright Book Award University of Chicago Excellence in Graduate Teaching (2003) Kim Dae-jung Academic Award (2007)
Academic background
Alma mater	Denison University (BS) Indiana University (M.A.) Columbia University (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	East Asian history International relations
Institutions	University of Chicago Northwestern University University of Washington Swarthmore College
Notable works	Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (1997)

Bruce Cumings (born September 5, 1943) is an American historian of East Asia, professor, lecturer and author. He is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History, and the former chair of the history department at the University of Chicago. He formerly taught at Northwestern University and the University of Washington. He specializes in modern Korean history and contemporary international relations.

In May 2007, Cumings was the first recipient of the Kim Dae-jung Academic Award for Outstanding Achievements and Scholarly Contributions to Democracy, Human Rights and Peace granted by South Korea. The award is named in honor of 2000 Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of South Korea Kim Dae-jung. The award recognizes Cumings for his "outstanding scholarship, and engaged public activity regarding human rights and democratization during the decades of dictatorship in Korea, and after the dictatorship ended in 1987."

Cumings' Origins of the Korean War, Vol. 1 (1980) won the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association, and his Origins of the Korean War, Vol. 2 (1991) won the Quincy Wright Book Award of the International Studies Association.^[1]