Carter J. Eckert (1945 – December 2024) was an American historian who specialized in Korean history.
[2][3] He attended Lawrence University, where he studied Western ancient and medieval history.
[4] After graduating from Harvard, Eckert worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea.
[2] He later returned to the U.S. to undertake doctoral study in Korean and Japanese history at the University of Washington.
[3][7] In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Carter Eckert, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly eight works in 10+ publications in five languages and 1,000+ library holdings.