Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center
Stanford University

Email: gwshin@stanford.edu

Security

Inter-Korean

Expertise

- Korean democratization

- Korean nationalism

- U.S.-Korea relations

- Reconciliation and cooperation in Northeast Asia

- Social roots of rapid postwar industrialization

Background

Gi-Wook Shin is Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center (APARC) and Senior Fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is the author/editor of many books and articles regarding the Korean Peninsula including Ethnic Nationalism in Korea: Genealogy, Politics and Legacy (2006); North Korea: 2005 and Beyond (2006); Contentious Kwangju (2004), Colonial Modernity in Korea (1999), and Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea (1996). Shin is currently writing a book on U.S.-Korean relations, which is based on analyses of more than 8,000 newspaper articles published in the U.S. and South Korean media from 1992 to 2004. Shin's other projects include "social activism and Korean politics" and "Korea's new Asianism." At Stanford's Asia Pacific Research Center, Shin explores different aspects of U.S. policy toward North Korea, such as "North Korea: 2005 and Beyond" {May 2005} and "North Korea: New Challenges, New Solutions." (February 2003.)

Biography

Before joining Stanford, Shin taught at the University of Iowa and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has served as acting director of the UCLA Center for Korean Studies, as guest columnist for the Korea Central Daily and the Korea Times (U.S. edition), and on other councils and advisory boards in the United States and Korea. Shin received his B.A. from Yonsei University in Korea and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington.

His articles have appeared in academic journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Nations and Nationalism, Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Sociology, Asian Survey, Asian Perspectives, positions, and the Sociological Quarterly. He also co-edited a volume on Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia (in press).

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