Biography
Bruce Cumings was born in Rochester, New York on 5 September 1943. He grew up in Iowa and Ohio, where his father was a college administrator before joining the Central Intelligence Agency. He worked summers for five years, three of them at the Republic Steel plant in Cleveland, to put himself through Denison University, with further help from a baseball scholarship. He graduated with a degree in Psychology in 1965, then served in the Peace Corps in Korea in 1967-68 before taking an MA at Indiana University. He then earned a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University in 1975. He taught at Swarthmore College, University of Washington, Northwestern University, and University of Chicago. In 1999 he was elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He is married to Meredith Jung-En Woo the Dean of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia. Together they had two teenage sons; additionally, Cumings has a daughter from his first marriage.
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