Joshua Park

Joshua Park is a PhD student in History at Stanford University. He is also a JD candidate at Stanford Law School and a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. He is interested in studying the history of modern Korea, especially the story of how South Korea became modern. He hopes to explore how technological development intersected with economic development in the latter half of the twentieth century. Joshua has written for The Washington Post, the Harvard Art Museums, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Before Stanford, he consulted for the World Bank and the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea on development and industrial policy, and has been based in Seoul, Singapore, and Hanoi. Joshua graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in history and East Asian Studies and a master’s degree in Regional Studies – East Asia.