Dr. Leonid A. Petrov, MA (Hons) in Asian and African
Studies (SPbU) PhD in History (ANU)
Research Associate, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research
School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Email: leonid.petrov@anu.edu.au
Biographical Statement
Leonid Petrov graduated from St. Petersburg State University (1994) in Russia
where he majored in Korean History and Language. He obtained a PhD in
History at the Australian National University (2003) and specialised in
the studies of North Korea. Between 2003 and 2005, Dr. Petrov taught Korean
History at the Intercultural Institute of California (San Francisco) and
Korean Economy at Keimyung University (Daegu). In 2006/2007 Prof. Petrov
worked as the Chair of Korean Studies at Institut d'Etudes Politiques
de Paris. Currently he is a Research Associate at the PAH RSPAS ANU for
the ARC-funded project “Historical Conflict and Reconciliation in
East Asia” (Chief Investigator Prof. Tessa Morris-Suzuki).
Research Interests
Socio-economic history of Korea; political history of DPRK (North Korea); inter-Korean
conflicts and cooperation; ethnic Koreans in Russia; ethnic Russians
in Korea; communist and post-communist studies; Russia, Commonwealth
of Independent States and North Korea.
Key Publications
- 'Korean Football at the Crossroads: A View from Inside', in eds.
Horne J., Manzenreiter W., Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup,
London: Routledge, 2002, pp.106-120.
- 'Restoring the Glorious Past: North Korean Juch’e
Historiography and Koguryõ', in The Review of Korean Studies
journal, vol.7, No.3 (September 2004), The Academy of Korean Studies,
pp.231-252.
- 'Turning Historians into Party Scholar-bureaucrats: North Korean
Historiography in 1955-1958', in East Asian History (Australian National
University), No.31 (June 2006), pp. 101-124.
- 'Nucléaire nord-coréen et gouvernance' co-authored
with Sebastien Colin, in Les Annales de la Gouvernance, Institute
pour un Nouveau Debat sur la Governance, Editions Charles Léopold
Mayer (2007);
The full list of publications is available on-line at:
www.north-korea.narod.ru
