Avram Agov


Faculty Member at Asian Studies Department, and Sessional Lecturer, Department of History
Email: avram.agov(at)gmail.com


Avram Agov received a BA in philosophy (second major in history) at Sofia University, Bulgaria. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University on a Fulbright Fellowship, and received an MA in Regional Studies-East Asia at Harvard University. Dr. Agov studied at the Korean Language Institute of Yonsei University in Seoul and worked in Samsung Electronics in South Korea. He received his PhD at the History Department of the University of British Columbia. He is studying North Korea in the socialist world during the Cold War.