Newsletter of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs | Harvard University | Vol. 19 Num. 3 | Fall 2005
In the News
- Beth Simmons
- New Faculty Director
- On September 28, 2005, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby announced the appointment of Beth A. Simmons as the seventh director of the Center for International Affairs, effective July 1, 2006. Center Director Jorge I. Domínguez noted of her appointment, “Professor Simmons is a path-breaking scholar, a wonderful teacher, and an active and valued member of the Weatherhead Center community, who is housed already at the Center itself. As a social scientist she has interests in a wide array of topics and has carried out both historical and contemporary research, employing qualitative and quantitative methods, and has been a strong supporter of a plurality of approaches to the understanding of international and comparative questions at various levels. Her first association with the Center was as a graduate student and thus she has experienced the Center in various ways at distinct times of her distinguished career.”
- Sang-Kee Kim Fund
- The Weatherhead Center is delighted to announce that Byung-Kook Kim (A.B. 1982, Ph.D. 1988) and Byung-Pyo Kim (A.B. 1983) have established, in honor of their father, the Sang-Kee Kim Fund for Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences. Byung-Kook Kim was the Ralph I. Straus Visiting Professor in 2003-04, when he taught at the Kennedy School of Government and organized at the Weatherhead Center the seminar “Security and Domestic Politics in East Asia.” Among the most recent conferences that he helped to co-organize with the Weatherhead Center was an international conference on East Asia, Latin America, and “the ‘New’ Pax Americana,” which was subsequently published as Between Compliance and Conflict: East Asia, Latin America and the “New” Pax Americana (co-authored with Jorge I. Domínguez). This fund, to be allocated at the discretion of the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in consultation with the director of the Weatherhead Center, will support teaching and instruction in the study of East and/or Southeast Asia, with the exception of China and Japan. The fund, in its early years, will be used to bring to Harvard visiting scholars who study East Asia and/or Southeast Asia, with the title of the incumbent to include the name of Sang-Kee Kim and to reflect the discipline of the scholar. Funds may also be used to acquire library materials and to provide graduate fellowship support for work on the region. It is hoped that this initiative will eventually establish a visiting professorship or a full professorship within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Center gratefully acknowledges this magnanimous gift of the Kim family.
