Robert Matthew Oppenheim is an American scholar of Korean studies. He is a professor of Asian studies and anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.[1]

Oppenheim majored in anthropology at Princeton University, graduating in 1991. He received his Ph.D. (2003) and M.A. (1995) in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Chicago. At the University of Texas, he directed the Center for East Asian Studies from 2011 to 2015.[2] He is the author of the book Kyǒngju Things: Assembling Place (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008).[3]

In 2015, Oppenheim won the Global Korea Award of the Council on Korean Studies at Michigan State University.[4]

References

  1. "College of Liberal Arts Faculty", Undergraduate Catalog 2018–2020, University of Texas at Austin, retrieved 2018-12-15
  2. Curriculum vitae, University of Texas at Austin, retrieved 2018-12-15
  3. Reviews of Kyǒngju Things:
  4. Global Korea Award recipients, Council on Korean Studies, retrieved 2018-12-15


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