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• Associate Editor, Journal of American-East Asian Relations

I am currently working on two book projects. One is a co-edited Cambridge History of the Korean War, and the second is a survey of twentieth century global history (Blackwell).

Books

Outposts of Empire: Korea, Vietnam and the Origins of the Cold War in Asia, 1949-1954. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995.

The Korean War. London: Longman, 2001.

La Guerra di Corea (Italian translation of The Korean War). Bologna: Il Mulino, 2003.

Steven Lee and Chang Yunshik, editors. Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea. London: Routledge, 2006.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Liberation Deferred: Korea, the United States, and the Eastern Asian World, 1943-1949.” Korea Journal, vol. 65, no. 3, Autumn 2025, 47-99.

“The United States and the Historical Roots of the Contemporary Nuclear Crisis: A Korean War History,” translated into Spanish as “Estados Unidos y las raíces históricas de la crisis nuclear contemporánea: Una historia de la guerra de Corea” in Juan Felipe Lopez Aymes and Alfredo Castilla, editors, Setena Anos de la Guerra de Corea (The Korean War at Seventy). (UNAM: Cuernavaca, 2024), pp. 41-64.

Extended Review Essay, Review of Monica Kim, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, in Korea Journal, vol. 62, no. 1 (spring 2022): 245–252.

“Cold War Endings: The Canadian Peace Congress and the Transnational Peace Movement, 1977-91”, in Undiplomatic History: The New Study of Canada and the World, eds. Asa McKercher and Philip Van Huizen (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019), 277-314.

“Warfare and the Re-making of Korea in the 1950s”, Journal of American East Asian Relations, special issue edited by Janice Kim and Steven Lee, 24, nos. 2-3 (summer, 2017): 93-102.

“Korea Multiple Book Essay”, Journal of Asian Studies, 76, no. 1 (February 2017): 233-39.

“The Japanese Empire At War, 1931-1945”, in The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II,  ed. Richard Overy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 35-74.

“The Korean War in History and Historiography”, Journal of American East Asian Relations, 2014, 21, no. 2 (June 2014): 186-206.

“The Korean Armistice and the End of Peace: The US-UN Coalition and the Dynamics of War-Making in Korea, 1953–76”, Journal of Korean Studies, 18, no. 2 (fall 2013): 183-224.

“Military Occupation and Empire-Building in Cold War Asia: The United States and Korea, 1945-1955”, in The Cold War in East Asia, ed. T. Hasegawa (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), 98-121.

“The United States, the United Nations, and the Second Occupation of Korea, 1950-1951,” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Vol 8 Issue 50 No 3 – December 13, 2010.

“Development without democracy: The political economy of US–South Korea relations, 1958–1961”, in Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea, eds. Chang Yunshik and Steven Lee (London: Routledge, 2006), 155-85.

“The Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Canada and Korea, 1961-1963”, Acta Koreana, 8, no. 1 (July 2005): 5-16.

“The United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency in War and Peace: An Economic and Social History of Korea in the 1950s”, in Korea and the Korean War, eds. Chae Jin Lee and Lew Young Ick (Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 2002), 357-96.

“Negotiating the Cold War: The United States and the Two Koreas”, The Journal of American – East Asian Relations, 9, nos. 1-2, (January 2000): 85-105.

“The American Empire and the Cold War in Asia”, in Revisionism and Modern Korean History, ed. Lew Young Ick (Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 1998), 299-345.

“The Canadian-Asian Experience: An Introductory Synthesis”, The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 4, no. 3 (January 1995): 193-222.

• Killam Teaching Prize, 1998