Katharine H. S. Moon is an American
academic
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. Moon is Professor in the Department of
Political Science
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at
Wellesley College. She is also the inaugural holder of the SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies and senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution
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's Center for East Asia Policy Studies.
Moon was born in
San Francisco, California
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and has a bachelor's degree from
Smith College
Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith (Smith College ...
and a Ph.D. from
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
.
See also
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Sex Among Allies
Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations is a study by American academic Katharine Moon
Katharine H. S. Moon is an American academic. Moon is Professor in the Department of Political science, Political Science at Wellesley ...
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Smith College alumni
Princeton University alumni
Wellesley College faculty
American women political scientists
American political scientists
American women academics
21st-century American women
Brookings Institution people
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