Rate My Professor Sheila Jager

Jager is the author of several acclaimed books, including The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023), which received the 2024 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association and the 2024 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History from the Royal United Services Institute. Other major publications include Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea (W.W. Norton/Profile Books, 2013), selected for the 2013 National Book Festival and named one of the Best Books on Asia by Foreign Affairs; Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism (M.E. Sharpe, 2003; Routledge, 2016); and Ruptured Histories: War, Memory and the Post-Cold War in Asia (Harvard University Press, 2007, co-edited with Rana Mitter). Forthcoming works include From War to Revolution: The Great War and East Asia (Harvard University Press) and The Korean War: A Local History (co-authored with Jiyul Kim, Cambridge University Press). She has published articles in Politico Magazine, History Today, Wilson Quarterly, Public Culture, New Literary History, Journal of Asian Studies, and positions, as well as contributions to the Cambridge History of America and the World (2021). Jager received a Senior Scholar Fulbright Fellowship for research in South Korea (2014-15) and a Smith Richardson Foundation International Security & Foreign Policy grant (2020). She has delivered lectures at institutions including Stanford University, the Wilson Center, and Ohio State University, and appeared in documentaries such as PBS's Korea: The Never-Ending War (2019).