About the Presenters

Wolhee Choe is professor emerita of humanities at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, artistic director of Hawks Media, Inc. and a script advisor for Kim's Video Films of New York. She received a Ph.D. in English at The City College of New York in 1983.

Jin Young Choi taught at the University of North Carolina for five years before becoming a professor of American literature at Jungang University in Seoul. She was president of the American Studies Association of America in 2000. She is a graduate of Seoul National University and the University of North Carolina.

Angela Cleveland is a school guidance counselor at Auten Road Intermediate School in Hillsborough, NJ. As an educational consultant for several school districts, she works to incorporate Korean culture, literature and history into the curriculum.

Hee Joo Kim has worked for the Early Childhood program at the Rubin Museum of Art as well as The Korea Society. She holds a BFA and MFA in painting from Hong-Ik University in Seoul as well as a masters' in art education from Teachers College at Columbia University. She actively contributes to educational materials for the arts at The Korea Society and plans to pursue further studies at Teachers College.

Gari Ledyard is King Sejong Professor Emeritus of Korean Studies and director emeritus of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University. He is the author of The Dutch Came to Korea (Royal Asiatic Society, 1971), The Korean Language Reform of 1446 (Sin'gu Munhwasa, Seoul, 1998), "Cartography in Korea," a book-length monograph with over sixty illustrations in The History of Cartography, Vol 2, Part 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1994) and many other monographs, articles and reviews related to Korean and East Asian history. He was chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures from 1980-1983, and was the founder of the Center for Korean Research in 1992. He retired in 2000 but remains active in research and publication.

Gail S. Ludwig is associate professor of geography at the University of Missouri. She teaches courses in the mapping sciences, including geographic information systems, map interpretation, remote sensing and GPS. She has worked for the National Geographic Society as geographer-in-residence, served as president of the National Council for Geographic Education and coordinated the K-12 Missouri Geographic Alliance Program.

Grace Park, an independent artist from Potomac, Maryland, has exhibited her work in numerous art shows, including solo shows in 1977 and 1979, and is the recipient of many awards. In 1981, the Smithsonian Institution included seven of her paintings in its exhibition of Contemporary Korean American Art. In 1988, one of her paintings was selected for inclusion in a juried art show sponsored by the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. She has experience conducting workshops on Korean art for teachers and has taught at the Smithsonian Institution as well as many community colleges.

Mark Peterson is head of the Korean Section, Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University. Prior to his appointment at BYU in 1984, he was the director of the Fulbright program in Korea from 1978 to 1983. He is a member of the Association for Asian Studies, where he is the chair of the Korean Studies Committee, as well as the Royal Asiatic Society, the International Association for Korean Language Education, the International Korean Literature Association and the American Association of Korean Teachers. He received a B.A. in Asian studies and anthropology from Brigham Young University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in East Asian languages and civilization from Harvard University in 1987.

Patricia Rosof taught social studies at Hunter College High School for nineteen years and is the co-author of Student Preparation Guide for the AP European History Exam. She has worked as a consultant for the College Board and The Korea Society.