About
Stephan Haggard
Stephan Haggard is Distinguished Research Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS; formerly International Relations and Pacific Studies, IR/PS) at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) and Research Director for Democracy and Global Governance at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (ICGG) where he runs the initiative on Illiberal Regimes and Global Governance. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983 and taught in the Department of Government at Harvard University from 1983 to 1991 before joining the faculty of GPS.
His research interests center on the international relations and comparative politics of East Asia, with a particular focus on the Korean peninsula, and on transitions to and from democratic rule. A full CV can be found here. His Google Scholar profile can be found here. He was recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and awarded the Revelle Medal by UC San Diego for service to the University.
From 2005 through 2022, he served as editor of the Journal of East Asian Studies. From 2011 to 2019, he ran the Witness to Transformation blog on North Korea. He has been a regular columnist at Joongang Ilbo and Kyunghyang Shinmun and sits on the Board of the Korea Economic Institute.
He is married to Sharon Crasnow and they have a thriving extended family of four children, two spouses and grandchild: Kit (and Maren), Max, Sascha and SJ (and Kate and Mischa).