Elliott School Professors Martha Finnemore and Michael Barnett were listed as the No. 1 and No. 11 scholars, respectively, who produced the most interesting scholarship in the past five years in the 2011 Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) survey 
, which included responses from 1,582 international relations faculty members.
Celeste Arrington
Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Office: Monroe 465, 2115 G Street, N.W.
Phone: (202) 994-6601
E-mail: cla@gwu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Expertise:
Comparative politics, South Korea, Japan, North Korea, state-society relations, law and society, media and politics, Northeast Asian security
Background:
Professor Arrington specializes in comparative politics, with a regional focus on the Koreas and Japan. Her research interests include civil society, social movements, democratic governance, law and society, policy-making processes, the media and politics, and qualitative methods. She is also interested in the international relations and security of Northeast Asia and transnational activism. She is currently completing a book manuscript on victim redress movements and governmental accountability in South Korea and Japan.
Professor Arrington earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. from Princeton University. She was an advanced research fellow in the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University in 2010-2011. During the 2011-2012 year, she was a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Courses Taught:
PSC 3192W Proseminar: State Society Relations of East
Asia