Portrait of Ramsay Liem, he wears a checkered shirt, and thin frames. He smiles at the camera. In the background there is a bookshelf and a painting.
Ramsay Liem
Photo courtesy Ramsay Liem
Producer

Ramsay Liem (he/him), executive produced the award-winning film, Memory of Forgotten War, an outgrowth of his program of work on Korean American memories and legacies of the Korean War. He is a professor emeritus of psychology and visiting scholar at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College. His broader interests include the intergenerational transmission of historical trauma and the social and historical contexts of Asian American identity formation. He is responsible for the oral history project Korean American Memories and Legacies of the Korean War and served as project director for the multimedia exhibit Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the ‘Forgotten War’. He is the author of numerous articles on the significance of the Korean War in the lives of Korean Americans and the social and psychological impacts of state-sponsored violence.

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