The faculty at the School of International Service and American University support the Center through their teaching, research, and publications. Faculty from throughout the University assist the Center through conference participation and scholarly publications dealing with Asia. The Center has an active director and a number of core faculty who assume leadership of Asian related special activities on campus.

The Director
Dr. Hyung Kook Kim, School of International Service, serves as Director of the Center for Asian Studies at American University. He received a B.S. in 1982 at Korea University in Seoul, a B.A. in 1985 at Lewis and Clark College, and a Ph.D. in 1993 at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University, where he taught from 1993-95. Earlier he had been a fellow at the Research Institute of Peace and Security in Tokyo. He has published many articles and books, including The Division of Korea and the Alliance-Making Process: Internationalization of Internal Conflict and Internationalization of International Struggle (University Press of America, 1995) and “The U.S. Policy toward North Korea: From Positive Engagement to Constructive Containment” in the Journal of East Asian Studies. His special interests are Korean politics, the international relations of Korea and East Asia, and Japanese politics and foreign policy.