Gi-Wook Shin

Professor Gi-Wook Shin is a Professor of Sociology and the Tong Yang, Korea Foundation, and Korea Stanford Alumni Chair of Korean Studies. A historical-comparative and political sociologist, his research has concentrated on areas of social movements, nationalism, development, and international relations.

 

Shin recently completed a three-year research project that culminated in the publication of the book One Alliance, Two Lenses: U.S.-Korea Relations in a New Era (Stanford University Press, 2010). The project was based on analyses of more than 8,000 newspaper articles published in the U.S. and South Korean media from 1992 to 2004. He completed editing three more books with his colleagues, respectively titled From Democracy to Civil Society: The Evolution of Social Movements in Korea, Divided Memories: History Textbooks and the War in Asia, and First Drafts of Korea: The U.S. Media and Perceptions of the Last Cold War Frontier. He is also engaged in a project addressing historical injustice and reconciliation in Northeast Asia with a particular focus on the U.S. responsibility and role in resolving the history question in that region.

 

Before coming to 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 gust 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.

 

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RESEARCH AREAS

Comparative and Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Social Movements; Political Economy and International Relations of East Asia; and Korean Society and Politics.

OTHER APPOINTMENTS/ORGANIZATIONS

Dr. Shin is the director of the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is also the founding director of Korean Studies Program at Stanford and served as editor of the Journal of Korean Studies, a premier journal in the field of Korean studies, for five years.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Recent Books:

  • One Alliance, Two Lenses: U.S.-Korea Relations in a New Era. Forthcoming from Stanford University Press.
  • Cross-Currents: Regionalism and Nationalism in Northeast Asia (edited with Daniel Sneider). The Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford Univeristy, 2007.
  • Ethnic Nationalism in Korea: Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006.

 

  • Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: Korean Experiences in Regional Perspective. (edited with Soon-Won Park, and Daqing Yang). Routledge, 2006.

 

  • North Korea: 2005 and Beyond. (edited with Philip W. Yun). The Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford Univeristy, 2006.

 

  • Contentious Kwangju: The May 18 Uprising in Korea’s Past and Present. (edited with Kyung Moon Hwang). Roman and Littlefield, 2003.

 

  • Colonial Modernity in Korea. (edited with Michael Robinson). Harvard University Asia Center, 1999.
  • Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea. University of Washington Press, 1996.

Recent Papers and Book Chapters:

  •  “Paradox or Paradigm?: Making Sense of Korean Experience” (with Joon-Nak Choi), pp. 250-72 in YS Chang ed., Korea Confronts Globalization. London: Routledge. (2008).

 

  • “Social Conflict and Regime Formation: A Comparative Study of South Korea nad Costa Rica” (with Gary Hytrek). International Sociology 17.4: 459-80.
  • "Agrarian Conflict and the Origins of Korean Capitalism." American Journal of Sociology. 103 (1998).

 

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