About
Stephan Haggard
Stephan Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy (formerly International Relations and Pacific Studies, IR/PS) at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). 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 where he also serves as Director of the Korea-Pacific Program at GPS and a research affiliate at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (ICGG).
His research interests center on the international and comparative political economy of development, with particular emphasis on East Asia. A full CV can be found here. His Google Scholar profile can be found here.
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. From 2015 through 2019 he had a regular column at Joongang Ilbo.
Prof. Haggard has served on the boards of the Pacific Rim Parks Foundation, which is committed to building student-designed and built parks in the countries bordering the Pacific Ocean, and Academic Exchange, which promotes academic dialogue with Israel and Palestine, and the Korea Economic Institute.
He is married to Sharon Crasnow and they have a thriving extended family of four children (and two spouses): Kit (and Maren), Max, Sascha and SJ (and Kate).