Education

  • Ph.D. University of Chicago

Career

2025 Researcher, Université Paris Cité (former Paris VII Diderot)
2023-24 President, Korean Society for Political Thought
2020-21 Researcher, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Brelin
2017 Distinguished Guest Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University
2016-17 Kim Koo Visiting Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University
2012-19 President, Korean Association of Future Studies
2009-10 Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute
2002-present Editorial Board, Max Weber Studies (London)
2000-02 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Williams College
1999-2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside
1998 Leo Strauss Award in the field of political philosophy, American Political Science Association

Books

  • Another Cold War Liberalism: Freedom & Democracy in South Korea (Cambridge University Press, under contract)
  • Max Weber’s Politics of Civil Society (Cambridge University Press, 2007/2004)
  • Making We the People: Democratic Constitutional Founding in Postwar Japan and South Korea (Cambridge University Press, 2015)