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<div class="moz-forward-container">Dear all,<br>
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It's the graduate school application season of the year--at
least in the U.S. <br>
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For anyone who is thinking about or knows someone thinking about
graduate training in Korean history at the University of
Pennsylvania, I would like to note that (s)he must apply for our
Department of History (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.history.upenn.edu/">http://www.history.upenn.edu/</a>)
rather than the Department of East Asian Languages and
Civilizations (which does not have a standing faculty member in
Korean studies). In line with most graduate programs in the
U.S., Penn History funds Ph.D. students but not M.A. students.
Also, applicants should keep in mind that the M.A. program is
terminal, and the department generally does not admit its M.A.
graduate into the Ph.D. program. <br>
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We do what we can to take good care of our Ph.D. students, and
our track record is good. History offers every admitted doctoral
student a full five-year funding package, including summer
stipends. Since I have joined Penn faculty in 2009, I have not
seen a single doctoral student in East Asian history failing to
secure external funding for dissertation field research or land
a tenure-track job in the U.S. Currently I am supervising four
Ph.D. students and an M.A. student. <br>
<br>
For more information on Korean studies at Penn, please visit our
James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies website (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/koreanstudies/">http://www.sas.upenn.edu/koreanstudies/</a>).
And of course I would be happy be answer questions.<br>
<br>
Yours,<br>
<br>
Gene Park<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Eugene Y. Park
Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History
Director, James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies
University of Pennsylvania
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/park.shtml">http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/park.shtml</a></pre>
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