Paul Y. Chang
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
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, Stanford University. A sociologist by training, 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 the University of California, Santa Cruz, M.A. degrees from Harvard Divinity School, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Stanford, and his Ph.D. from Stanford’s Sociology Department in 2008.
