The Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), Stanford Institute for International Studies at Stanford University announces the winners of the 2004-2005 Shorenstein Fellowship. Drs. Jennifer Amyx and Soyoung Kwon will join APARC in the fall.

Jennifer Amyx received her Ph.D. from Stanford in 1998. An assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, she is an expert on the politics of financial regulation and reform in the Asia-Pacific region. During her residence at APARC, she plans to complete her manuscript that analyze the regulation and reform of government-backed financial institutions in Japan.

Soyoung Kwon received her Ph.D. from University of Cambridge in 2003. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on the evolution of the North Korean political elite. It is a much under-researched topic and her work looks into different socialist societies, comparing different courses of change (and lack of change) in the state socialist societies. While in residence she will be focusing on developing her doctoral thesis into a monograph that will focus on the North Korean political leadership and its policy orientation.

APARC looks forward to their joining us in the fall.