Research Interests: Social Movements, Family, Korean Studies

Paul Y. Chang is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He is the author of Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea’s Democracy Movement, 1970-1979 (Stanford University Press 2015) and co-editor of South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society (Routledge 2011). Chang’s research on social and political change in South Korea has appeared in several disciplinary and area studies journals including Social Forces, Mobilization, and the Journal of Korean Studies. His current project explores the emergence of non-traditional family structures in South Korea, including single-parent households, single-person households, and multicultural families.