James Huntley Grayson is Emeritus Professor of Modern Korean Studies at the University of Sheffield. He was awarded a BA in Anthropology from Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, in 1966, an MA in Anthropology from Columbia University in 1968, and a PhD in the History of Religion from Edinburgh University in 1979.

He served as a Methodist missionary in Korea from 1971 to 1987, after which he returned to the UK as a Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor) in Korean Studies at the University of Sheffield until his retirement in 2009.

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