Dr Leonid A. PETROV

Research Associate
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Australian National University

Email: Leonid.Petrov@anu.edu.au

Leonid Petrov graduated from St. Petersburg State University (1994) in Russia where he majored in Korean History and Language. He obtained a PhD in History at the ANU (2003) specialising in the study of North Korea.

From 2003-2005, Dr Petrov taught the History of North-South Korean Conflict and Cooperation at the Intercultural Institute of California in San Francisco and at Keimyung University in Daegu. In 2006/2007 he was the Chair of Korean Studies at the Political Sciences University (Sciences Po) in Paris. Currently he works on two projects: “Historical Conflict and Reconciliation in East Asia” (ARC-ANU) and “North-South Interfaces on the Korean Peninsula” (CNRS-EHESS). The list of his publications is available on www.north-korea.narod.ru