Paul Y. Chang

Paul Y. Chang is the  deputy director of the Korea Program at Shorenstein Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; 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 at 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.