Andre H. Schmid is a Canadian academic, author and former Director of the Centre for the Study of Korea at the University of Toronto.

Biography

He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto. Schmid was awarded his Ph.D. at Columbia University in New York. Schmid is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. His research interests include the cultural history of the Cold War and the historiographical literature on 19th century peasant movements. He is best known for his award-winning 2002 book, Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919 (Columbia University Press). In 2004, he won the Association for Asian Studies, John Whitney Hall Book Prize.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Roman Ghirshman, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 10+ works in 20+ publications in 5 languages and 1,000+ library holdings.