UC Berkeley Journalism - Faculty

Carolyn Wakeman

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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Phone: (510) 642-0409

Carolyn Wakeman directs the school's Asia-Pacific Program and the International Visiting Scholars Program. She is faculty coordinator for the Asian Studies/ Journalism concurrent degree program, both advising students in the program and teaching several courses in the curriculum. Professor Wakeman holds a bachelor's degree from Brown University and an M.A. and Ph.D from Washington University, all in English literature, and formerly taught at Yale University and Beijing Foreign Studies University. Professor Wakeman co-edited with Adjunct Professor Ken Light Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution and is the author of To the Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman. She also co-wrote (with former dissident Harry Wu) Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag.

Covering North Korea
Students in Carolyn Wakeman's Covering North Korea seminar launched a website that features original articles by J-School students and visiting scholars along with events, photographs, film reviews, news sites, and links to NGOs providing aid and information.

Classes with Carolyn Wakeman

Each fall semester Asia Colloquium draws on the varied experience and insights of reporters from the field and Visiting Scholars from several countries to provide a weekly forum examining international coverage of the region. Advanced travel reporting classes on India, Japan, China, North Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, have offered field experience and in-depth study of breaking events and emerging trends in the Asian region. Covering North Korea is the web publication produced by students in Carolyn Wakeman's Fall 2005 North Korea reporting class.

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