Wilson Center Experts
James Person
Senior Program Associate, North Korea International Documentation Project
North Korea International Documentation Project
Contact Information:
T 202/691-4305
// F 202/691-4001
Expertise:
Cold War
; History
; Modern Korean History
; Asia
; North Korea
James F. Person is the Senior Program Associate for the History and Public Policy Program and coordinator of the North Korea International Documentation Project. He is currently completing a PhD in Korean history at the George Washington University, working on a dissertation on North Korea's relations with the Soviet Union and China from 1956-1962.
Education
Ph.D, History, George Washington University (forthcoming); M.Phil., Soviet History, Moscow State University, B.A. History and Fine Arts, The George Washington University
Experience
Diplomatic historian; Archival research in the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI), the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI), the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation (AVPRF), the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), and the Russian State Archive of the Economy (RGAE), Chinese Foreign Ministry Archive; professorial lecturer, Korea University, Graduate School of International Studies.
Expertise
North Korean history and politics; modern Korean history; modern Asian history; Cold War history; Soviet foreign policy; archives and archival openness.
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