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Kim Named National Humanities Center Fellow

Hwansoo Kim, assistant professor of religious studies, is one of 41 fellows appointed to the National Humanities Center (NHC) for the 2014-15 academic year.

Kim, who joined the Duke faculty in 2009, received a Duke Endowment Fellowship to study "A Transnational History of Colonial Korean Buddhism (1910-1945)."

His primary research concerns Korean Buddhism in the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in the context of colonialism, imperialism and modernity.

Each NHC Fellow will work on an individual research project and will have the opportunity to share ideas in seminars, lectures and conferences at the center.

These newly appointed fellows will constitute the 37th class of resident scholars to be admitted since the center opened in the Research Triangle in 1978.