Dr. Sung Bok Kim, Distinguished Service Professor of History, has recently been appointed as an Advisor to Dr. Jang-Moo Lee, President of Seoul National University, Korea. This appointment follows in the wake of his leading a team of several faculty members of the university in assessing the College of Humanities at Seoul National University this past Spring. His “diagnostic assessment report,” submitted to the college faculty for review was the first of its kind ever since the founding of the College of Humanities in 1975. As Advisor to President Lee, Professor Kim will assist in all university affairs, especially in the recruitment of outstanding foreign scholars to the Seoul National University.

Professor Kim did his undergraduate studies in history at Seoul National University and advanced studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Michigan State University, East Lansing. Before he moved to Albany on 1973 he had taught at American International College, MA., College of William and Mary, VA., and The University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign. His specialty is early American history, including the American Revolution. He was the Chair of the History Department, 1983-87 and the Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at UAlbany, 1987-95.

Professor Kim’s major publications include a prize winning book Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York: Manorial Society, 1664-1775. He also has translated The Federalist Papers into Korean and has published a number of articles on the American Revolution and other topics in major journals of American history. Currently, he is engaged in various research projects, namely, American higher education from 1636 to the present, Baptists’ struggle for religious liberty and minority rights in New England, 1763-83, and modern Korean history, 1945-2000. Last, but not the least, he also very much enjoys interacting with his students and his faculty colleagues.

June 17, 2008