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Institute Directors
Cheehyung Harrison Kim is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His research and teaching focus on socialism, labor, industrialism, everyday life, and urbanism in the context of East Asia and, in particular, North Korea. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and he did his graduate studies at Columbia University. His research awards include the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, the American Council of Learned Societies Faculty Fellowship, and the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship. His book Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 (Columbia University Press, 2018) is about the experience of factory workers in postwar North Korea and about the transnational condition of industrialism that overwhelmed the entire modern world. He is currently writing a transnational history of architecture and urbanization in North Korea.
Peter D. Hershock is Director of the Asian Studies Development Program and Coordinator of the Humane AI Initiative at the East-West Center in Honolulu. His philosophical work makes use of Buddhist conceptual resources to address contemporary issues of global concern. He has authored or edited more than a dozen books on Buddhism, Asian philosophy and contemporary issues, including: Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age (1999); Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Reorienting Global Interdependence (2006); Valuing Diversity: Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future (2012); Public Zen, Personal Zen: A Buddhist Introduction (2014); Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation (edited, 2020); Human Beings or Human Becomings? A Conversation with Confucianism on the Concept of Person (edited, 2021); Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future (2021); and Consciousness Mattering: A Buddhist Synthesis (2023).
Institute Directors
Cheehyung Harrison Kim is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His research and teaching focus on socialism, labor, industrialism, everyday life, and urbanism in the context of East Asia and, in particular, North Korea. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and he did his graduate studies at Columbia University. His research awards include the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, the American Council of Learned Societies Faculty Fellowship, and the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship. His book Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 (Columbia University Press, 2018) is about the experience of factory workers in postwar North Korea and about the transnational condition of industrialism that overwhelmed the entire modern world. He is currently writing a transnational history of architecture and urbanization in North Korea.
Peter D. Hershock is Director of the Asian Studies Development Program and Coordinator of the Humane AI Initiative at the East-West Center in Honolulu. His philosophical work makes use of Buddhist conceptual resources to address contemporary issues of global concern. He has authored or edited more than a dozen books on Buddhism, Asian philosophy and contemporary issues, including: Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age (1999); Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Reorienting Global Interdependence (2006); Valuing Diversity: Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future (2012); Public Zen, Personal Zen: A Buddhist Introduction (2014); Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation (edited, 2020); Human Beings or Human Becomings? A Conversation with Confucianism on the Concept of Person (edited, 2021); Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future (2021); and Consciousness Mattering: A Buddhist Synthesis (2023).