Andre Schmid

Associate Professor
In Person: Monday 3pm - 5pm , or by appointment. Robarts Library, Room 14-145

Campus

Areas of Interest

  • 19th and 20th century Korea
  • East Asia

Biography

Professor Schmid's research and teaching focus on 19th and 20th century Korea and East Asia, as seen in the broader context of global, comparative history. He is interested in historiography and the uses of public memory, the relation between cultural practices and political economy, gendered social history and popular social movements. He has just finished a a book about the early formation of North Korea after the devastation of the late colonial and Korean wars. Entitled North Korea's Mundane Revolution, the book focuses on the turn to the heteronormative nuclear family by both the population and the Party-state as a primary site for postwar reconstruction and decolonization. In this gendered, socio-economic history of north Korean urban families, he examines how issues such as advice literature, apartment construction, divorce, and consumption established norms that while explicitly revolutionary often enabled, implicitly, a conservative politics that has always remained at the core of North Korean political culture.

His book, Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919 (Columbia University Press, 2002), received the John Whitney Hall Award of the Association of Asian Studies.He has published in various journals including the Journal of Asian StudiesAmerican Historical ReviewYoksa MunjeSouth Atlantic QuarterlyInternational Journal of Korean Studies, and SAI among others.

He has served two terms as the Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.

 

Education

PhD, Columbia University
BA and MA, University of Toronto

Publications