Paul Y. Chang

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Paul Y. Chang, PhD

  • Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
  • Tong Yang, Korea Foundation, and Korea Stanford Alumni Association Senior Fellow at Shorenstein APARC
  • Deputy Director, Korea Program at Shorenstein APARC

Stanford University
Encina Hall, Room E301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

Biography

Paul Y. Chang is the Tong Yang, Korea Foundation, and Korea Stanford Alumni Association Senior Fellow at Shorenstein APARC and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Chang is also the Deputy Director of the Korea Program at Shorenstein APARC and the President of the Association of Korean Sociologists in America. Chang’s research on South Korean society has appeared in flagship disciplinary and area studies journals. He is the author of Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea’s Democracy Movement, 1970-1979 (Stanford University Press) and co-editor of South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society (Routledge). His current work examines the diversification of family structures in South Korea.

Before joining Stanford, Chang served on the faculty at Harvard University, Yonsei University, and the Singapore Management University. He earned his B.A. from UC Santa Cruz, M.A. degrees from Harvard Divinity School, UCLA, and Stanford, and his Ph.D. from Stanford’s Sociology Department.

publications

Journal Articles
October 2023

Opting out or left out? The gendered determinants of marriage in South Korea

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Books
April 2015

Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea's Democracy Movement, 1970–1979

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May 2011

South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society

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In The News

Paul Y. Chang, FSI Senior Fellow
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Korea Expert Paul Y. Chang Joins FSI as Senior Fellow

A leading sociologist of Korea, Professor Chang’s scholarship has influenced a number of subfields such as democratization, social movements, political repression, and demographic transition.
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