Faculty

Areas of Interest:
Comparative Politics, East Asia, Democratization, Social Movements, Political Economy, International Relations

Biography:
Sunhyuk Kim is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. He is a specialist in Comparative Politics (with a focus on East Asia), Democratization, Social Movements, Political Economy, and International Relations. Professor Kim is the author of The Politics of Democratization in Korea: The Role of Civil Society. His publications have appeared in edited volumes and in journals such as Democratization, Asian Survey, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, Asian Perspective, and Korea Journal. He is currently working on a book-length study on economic and political reforms in Korea and is serving as the project director of the Pacific Council on International Policy's Task Force on "Assessing Korea and Promoting Change." He was a MacArthur Foundation fellow at the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University and a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at SUNY-Buffalo. Professor Kim joined the faculty at USC in 1996.