Edward J. Shultz

Interim Dean
School of Pacific and Asian Studies
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822
Telephone: (808) 956-8818
Fax: (808) 956-6345
Email: shultz@hawaii.edu

Educational Background:
A.B. June 1966, Union College (Political Science)
M.A. May 1970, University of Hawai‘i (History)
Ph.D. May 1976, University of Hawai‘i (History)

Dissertation:
"Institutional Developments in Korea under the Ch'oe House: 1196-1258," University of Hawai‘i, 1976

Teaching Positions:
1974-1975 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu
1975-1976 Instructor, Leeward Community College, Pearl City
1976-1981 Assistant Professor, University of Hawai‘i at West O‘ahu, Pearl City
1981-1986 Associate Professor, University of Hawai‘i at West O‘ahu, Pearl City
1982-1983 Visiting Professor, Hanyang University, Seoul
1983-1998 Professor, University of Hawai‘i at West O'ahu, Pearl City
1998- Professor, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Honolulu

Academic Fellowships and Grants:
East-West Center Grant 1969-1971
NDFL Title Six Grant 1971-1973
Fulbright-Hays, predoctoral grant, Korea, 1973-1974
Fulbright-Hays, lecture-research grant, Hanyang University, Korea, 1982-1983
International Cultural Society of Korea, research grant, 1983
National Endowment for the Humanities, Media Planning Grant, project director, 1985-1987
Hawai‘i Committee for the Humanities, Calligraphy and Society in East Asia, project director, 1988-1989
International Cultural Society of Korea, research grant, July 1990
Korea Research Foundation, research grant, August-October 1990
Social Science Research Council, planning grant, May 1991
Hawai‘i Committee for the Humanities, The Enduring Korean Tradition in Hawai‘i, project director, July 1992
International Research Center for Japanese Studies, January-July 1998

Publications:

Author, Scholars and Generals in Medieval Korea, Honolulu, 2000.

Forthcoming, "Merit and Birth in 12th Century Korea," Journal of Korean Studies, vol. 8 (2001).

Author, "Ch'oe Ch'ungh n and Minamoto Yoritomo," Japan Review, vol 11 (1999)

Author, "Royal Power and Governance in Middle Kory ," (in Korean) Tongyang samguk i wanggw n kwa kwalyoje, Seoul. Kukhak charyown, 1998.

Author, "Buddhism during Koryo's Military Rule," (in Korean) Hanguk sahak nongch'ong, Yi Kibaeksonsaeng kohui kinyom, Seoul, Ilchokak, 1994.

Contributor, Sources of Korean Tradition, New York, 1993.

Author, "Kim Pusik and the Samguk sagi," (in Korean) Hanguksa yongu, vol. 73 (June, 1991).

Editor and Translator with Dae-Sook Suh, Koreans in China, Honolulu, 1990.

Author, book review of The Republic of Korea by David Steinberg in Korean Studies, vol. 14 (1990).

Author, book review of the Korean Frontier in Hawaii by Wayne Patterson in Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 49, no. l (1990).

Author, "The Rise of Ch'oe Ch'unghon," Korean Studies, vol. 8 (1984).

Author, "Politics in 12th Century Korea: Han Anin and His Partisans," (in Korean) Yoksa hakpo, vol. 99-100 (December 1983); Journal of Korean Studies, vol. 6 (1989).

Co-translator, A New History of Korea, Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 1984

Author, "The 1170 Military Coup d'etat in Koryo," Korean Studies, vol. 3 (1979).

Author, "The Military-Civilian Conflict of the Koryo Dynasty," in Studies on Korea in Transition.

Co-editor, Studies on Korea in Transition, Honolulu, 1979.

Author, book review of Confucian Gentlemen and Barbarian Envoys by Martina Deuchler in Korean Studies, vol. 2 (1978).

Miscellaneous:
Editor, Korean Studies, Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai‘i, 1990-1998
Hawai‘i Committee for the Humanities, member 1992-98, chair, 1995-97
Tokai University, Hawai‘i, Board of Regents, 1998-

Travel Related to Field:
1966-l967 Peace Corps, English teacher in Korean high school
1970-1971 Student at Sogang University, Seoul, under East-West Center
1973-1974 Fulbright fellow in Korea
1977 Travel to conference in Korea
1979 Summer grant in Korea to complete filmstrip project
1982-1983 Fulbright fellowship in Korea
1986 NEH Planning Grant to Korea
1987 Travel to conference in Taiwan and Korea
1990 Sabbatical Research in Korea
1991 Travel to conference in Korea
On many of the above trips some travel also done in Japan.
1994- Travel to Korea and Japan, conferences
1998 Fellow, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Associations:
Association for Asian Studies
Center for Korean Studies
Korean Historical Association
Association for Korean Historical Studies
Chindan Society

Community Organizations:
Center for Asia Pacific Exchange, board member
Hawai‘i Committee for the Humanities, board member
Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, gallery subcommittee, chair

Courses Taught:
World Civilizations (premodern and contemporary)
American History
East Asian Civilizations (premodern and contemporary)
History of China (premodern and contemporary)
History of Japan (premodern and contemporary)
History of Korea (premodern and contemporary
Medieval Europe
Korean History Seminar (traditional)
Various Humanities subjects
Readings in Paekche History (in Korea)
Readings in Koryo History (in Korea)
Hawai‘i
Japanese in Hawai‘i
Literature of Asia
Seminar in Korean Studies
East Asia Now

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