Bruce Cumings
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In May 2007, Cumings was the first recipient of the Kim Dae-jung Academic Award for Outstanding Achievements and Scholarly Contributions to Democracy, Human Rights and Peace granted by South Korea. The award is named in honor of 2000 Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of South Korea Kim Dae-jung. The award recognizes Cumings for his "outstanding scholarship, and engaged public activity regarding human rights and democratization during the decades of dictatorship in Korea, and after the dictatorship ended in 1987."
Cumings' ''Origins of the Korean War'', Vol. 1 (1980) won the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association, and his ''Origins of the Korean War'', Vol. 2 (1991) won the Quincy Wright Book Award of the International Studies Association. Provided by Wikipedia