Ken Wells, PhD (ANU)
Professor, Division of Pacific and Asian History
Convenor, ANU Centre for Korean Studies

Email: Ken.Wells@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

Recently completed manuscript for a book A Short History of Korea and two chapters for two other books, on Korean suffragette movements and Korean Protestant reformers on individual and nation, all to be published in 2003. Currently serves as Convenor of the ANU Centre for Korean Studies. Was President of the Korean Studies Association of Australasia 2000-2003, now Vice-President.

Research Interests

History of the relation between religion, nationalism and social change in modern Korea; gender movements in modern Korea; family strategies and socio-political change in 20th-century Korea.

Key Publications

• (ed) South Korea's Minjung Movement: The Culture and Politics of Dissent, Hawaii University Press, 1995.
• New God, New Nation: Protestants and Self-Reconstruction Nationalism in Korea, 1896-1937, Allen & Unwin and Hawaii University Press, 1991.

Career Highlights

Academic staff member of Indiana University (Bloomington) for eight years before coming to ANU; Fellow of the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden for one year, 1997-98.