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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of International Studies

Teaching areas

political science; sociology; research design; China; senior thesis

Research areas

Regulation and governance; environmental and energy policy and politics; central-local relations; state-society relations; political economy of contemporary China; political economy of development

Education

PhD, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, 2014
MA, International And Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley, United States, 2005
Master of City Planning, City And Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, United States, 2005
BS, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, 2000

Professional experience

Associate Professor, Department Of International Studies, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2023 - Present
Founder And Director, Center For Esg (environmental, Social, And Corporate Governance) Research, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, 2021 - 2023
Associate Professor (tenured), Institute Of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2020 - 2023
Founder And Co-director, Institutions Of Good Governance Group, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, 2019 - 2020
Assistant Professor, Institute Of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2017 - 2020
Associate Professor (tenured), School Of Political Science And Public Administration, Wuhan University, China, 2015 - 2017
Fellow, Dahrendorf Forum, Europe-china Relations, Hertie School of Governance, Germany, 2016 - 2016
Visiting Scholar, Institute Of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2016 - 2016
Visiting Senior Scholar, Graduate Institute Of Building And Planning, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 2014 - 2015
Visiting Fellow, Institute Of Environment And Economy, Peking University, China, 2010 - 2013
Visiting Fellow, Center For Industrial Development And Environmental Governance, Tsinghua University, China, 2010 - 2012
Visiting Scholar, Center For Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Law, Tsinghua University, China, 2010 - 2012
Associate, ICF Consulting, Inc., CA, United States, 2005 - 2006
Disaster Relief Specialist, Brooklyn Chapter, American Red Cross, NY, United States, 2001 - 2002
Summer Labor Organizer, Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates (KIWA), CA, United States, 1999 - 1999

Memberships

NTHU Center for ESG Research, International, September 2023
Association for East Asian Environmental History, AEAEH, International, December 2017
International Studies Association, ISA, International, December 2017
Association for Asian Studies, AAS, International, December 2015
American Sociological Association, ASA, International, August 2014
American Political Science Association, APSA, International, September 2006
Phi Beta Kappa, PBK, International, June 2000
Sigma Xi, International, June 2000

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 4416

Dr. Kyoung Mun Shin

Associate Professor
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

My main work centers around the political economy of regulation and governance in environmental and energy issues, especially in contemporary China. My recent research focuses on the intersection between technology, gender, and corporate governance.

Publications

Genia Kostka And Kyoung Shin. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in China's Environmental Governance
Tingting Zhu, Yang Zhao And Kyoung Mun Shin. Female board representation and innovation in Chinese firms: moderating effects of firm’s size, age, and financial constraints, Asian Journal Of Technology Innovation, 2024
Kyoung Mun Shin And Tingting Zhu. Environmental Civil Society Organizations and the State in China: Institutional Analysis of the Dynamics, 1980s-2010s, Journal Of Chinese Political Science, September 2023
Kyoung Mun Shin. Sustainable Transition with Chinese Characteristics: Rethinking Target- and Indicator-Based Governance, Current Sustainable/renewable Energy Reports, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2021
Genia Kostka, Xuehua Zhang And Kyoung Mun Shin. Information, Technology, and Digitalization in China’s Environmental Governance, Journal Of Environmental Planning And Management, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020
Kyoung Mun Shin. Environmental Policy Innovations in China: A Critical Analysis from a Low-Carbon City, Environmental Politics, March 2018
Kyoung Mun Shin. Neither Centre nor Local: Community-Driven Experimentalist Governance in China, The China Quarterly, 2017
Kyoung Mun Shin. Mission-Driven Agency and Local Policy Innovation: Empirical Analysis from Baoding, China, Journal Of Chinese Political Science, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2017
Kyoung Mun Shin And Genia Kostka. Getting Governance Right: The Role of Trust and Social Networks in the Development of Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) in China, Comparative Economic & Social Systems, May 2016
Genia Kostka And Kyoung Mun Shin. Energy Conservation through Energy Service Companies: Empirical Analysis from China, Energy Policy, November 2012

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Professionalization of Bureaucracy and Environmental Governance: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis, Taiwan National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), August 2022 - July 2023
Grant, Transboundary Governance for Sustainable Green Transformation in China: Towards a Theory of Inter-Jurisdictional Relations, Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, August 2020 - July 2023
Grant, Governing Public Goods: Institutional Determinants of Good Governance in Local China, Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, August 2017 - July 2020
Fellowship, US Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad, US Department of State, - December 2012
Fellowship, US Institute of International Education (IIE) & The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Graduate Fellowships for International Study, Institute of International Education (IIE) & The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, January 2012 - December 2012
Fellowship, US National Security Education Program (NSEP) David Boren Fellowship, US National Security Education Program (NSEP), January 2011 - December 2011
Fellowship, MIT Graduate Fellowship, MIT, September 2006 - June 2011
Fellowship, US Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS), US Department of State, - August 2010
Fellowship, Blakemore Freeman Fellowships, Blakemore Foundation, - January 2010
Grant, The MIT-Japan International Studies Fund, MIT, - August 2008
Fellowship, MIT Presidential Fellow, MIT, - June 2007
Fellowship, UC Berkeley Block-Grant Fellowship, UC Berkeley, August 2004 - May 2005
Fellowship, UC Berkeley Block-Grant Fellowship, UC Berkeley, August 2002 - May 2003
Fellowship, Rudovsky Scholarship, MIT Economics Department, September 1998 - June 2000
Fellowship, Boston Stein Club New England Freshman Scholarship, Boston Stein Club, September 1996 - June 1997

Awards and Honors

Wu Ta-You Memorial Award, Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Awarded to the best researcher in the field of Geography, August 2020
US Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad, US Department of State, 2011
US Institute of International Education & The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Graduate Fellowships for International Study, Institute of International Education & The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2011
US Department of State Critical Language Scholarship, US Department of State, 2010
US National Security Education Program David Boren Fellowship, US National Security Education Board, 2010
Blakemore Freeman Fellowships, Blakemore Foundation, 2009
MIT Graduate Fellowship, MIT, 2006
MIT Presidential Fellow, MIT, 2006
Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa, June 2000
Sigma Xi, Sigma Xi, June 2000

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