Sung Bok Kim

Distinguished Service Professor

Ph.D., Michigan State University
M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
A.B., Seoul National University, Korea

145H Social Sciences
Department of History
University at Albany, SUNY
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, New York 12222

Phone: (518) 442-5352
Fax: (518) 442-5301

sbkim@albany.edu

Teaching:
Undergraduate Courses:
His 305: Colonial America
His 306: The Era of the American Revolution

Graduate Courses:
His 601: Readings in American Colonial and Revolutionary History
His 609: Research Seminar in the American Revolution

Select Publications:
Books:
Translation into Korean: The Federalist Papers, 1960

Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York: Manorial Society, 1664-1775 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1978), which received the best book prize from the Society of Colonial Wars

Articles:
"The Limits of Politicization in the American Revolution: The Experience of Westchester County, New York," Journal of American History 80 (December 1993)

"Impact of Class Relations and Warfare in the American Revolution: The New York Experience," Journal of American History 69 (September 1982)

"The American Revolution and the Modern World," in Larry R. Gerlach, et. al., eds.,Legacies of the American Revolution(Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1978)

"A New Look at the Great Landlords of Eighteenth-Century New York," The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., xxvii (October, 1970)

Current Research Interests:
The Making of the American Revolution and Constitution. On the side, I am also researching the History of Korea since 1945. I am also interested in an article length study of why New York Colonial landowners became anti-British and reluctant revolutionaries.

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