The ICAS Bulletin
Institute for Corean-American Studies, Inc.
ROBERT A. SCALAPINO
ICAS DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Dear Friend:
We are pleased to share with you that Robert A. Scalapino has become
ICAS Distinguished Fellow.
Robert A Scalapino was born in Leavenworth, Kansas. He received his B.A.
degree from Santa Barbara College and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard
University. From 1949 to 1990 he taught in the Political Science Department at
the University of California at Berkeley. He was department chairman from 1962
to 1965 and Robson Research Professor of Government from 1977 until 1990. In
1978 he founded the Institute of East Asian Studies and remained its director
until his retirement in 1990. He is currently Robson Research Professor of
Government Emeritus.
Professor Scalapino has been the recipient of a number of research grants
under such auspices as the Guggenheim Foundation, Social Science Research
Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Henry Luce Foundation,
the Earhart Foundation, and numerous others. He has been awarded the Medal
of Highest Honor from the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee
University; the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit, Heung-In Medal from the
Government of Korea; and the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the government
of Japan. In 1990, he received the Berkeley Citation for Distinguished Service
to the University of California. In 1997, he was conferred the title of Honorary
Professor of both the Center on Northeast Asian Studies in Mongolia and Peking
University in Beijing. Most recently, he was the recipient of the 1998 Japan
Foundation Award.
He has published some 500 articles and 38 books or monographs on Asian
politics and U.S. Asian policy. These include Parties and Politics in
Contemporary Japan (1962), The Japanese Communist Movement, 1920-1966 (1967),
Communism in Korea (two volumes, with Chong-Sik Lee, 1972, for which they
received the American Political Science Associations' 1974 Woodrow Wilson
Award), Asia and the Road Ahead (1975), The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan
(editor and contributor, 1977), The United States and Korea--Looking Ahead
(1979), The Early Japanese Labor Movement (1984), Modern China and Its
Revolutionary Process (with George T. Yu, 1985), Major Power Relations in
Northeast Asia (1987), The Politics of Development: Perspectives on
Twentieth-Century Asia (1989), The Last Leninists: The Uncertain Future
of Asia's Communist States (1992). He was editor of Asian Survey,
a scholarly publication, from 1962 to January, 1996.
Travelling extensively in Asia, he has made 36 trips to the People's Republic
of China, including service as a visiting lecturer at Peking University in
1981 and again in the spring of 1985. He had two separate one-year residences
in Japan and numerous visits to Korea, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. He has
visited the former Soviet Union on 19 occasions, most recently in November
1998. In 1989, 1991, 1992 and 1995, he was in North Korea for one week on
each occasion. On the 2nd and 3rd trips, he was head of an American Mission
on Korea sponsored by the Asia Society. He has also travelled to the Republic
of Mongolia on 6 occasions, heading the Asia Society's Northeast Asia Study
Mission in the fall of 1985; in the fall of 1990 as head of the American
delegation to the Second Mongolian International Conference, in the summer of
1992 and most recently in June of 1998.
Professor Scalapino is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was made a Berkeley Fellow in 1993. He serves on the Board of Directors of
Pacific Forum-CSIS. He was a founder and first chairman of the National
Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of
The Asia Foundation and was recently named Director Emeritus of the Japan
Society of Northern California, the Council on Foreign Relations and the
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He is Co-Chairman of the Asia
Society's Asian Agenda Advisory Group. He is also a member of the Board of
the Atlantic Council, the National Bureau of Asian Research, and numerous
other editorial boards and committees for educational and governmental agencies.
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Sincerely,
Sang Joo Kim
Sr. Fellow & Executive Vice President
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