Palais, James B., 1934-2006
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Palais, James B. (James Bernard), 1934-
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Historian of Korea and University of Washington professor of international studies and of history. James B. Palais was born on March 8, 1934. He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1955, an M.A. from Yale University in 1960, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968. He taught in the history departments of Norfolk State College (1966-1967) and the University of Maine (1967-1968) before coming to the University of Washington in 1968 as a professor of Korean history in the Far Eastern and Russian Institute. Beginning in 1969, he held dual appointments in the Institute for Comparative & Foreign Area Studies (later the School of International Studies) and in History, until his retirement in 2001. Palais' book "Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions" earned the John Whitney Hall book prize as the best book on Japan or Korea in 1998 from the Association for Asian Studies. Palais also published "Occasional Papers on Korea from 1974 to 1977, and the "Journal of Korean Studies" from 1979 to 1984. From 1988 to 2005 he edited the monograph series "Korean Studies". At the time of his death, Palais was general editor for the Cambridge University Press "History of Korea". Palais died on August 6, 2006.
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