Rate My Professor Roy Shin

Shin’s research interests encompass environment and competition policy, science and technology policy, and the political economy of policy reform in Korea and East Asia. Notable publications include “The Prospects of Globalization Impact on Governance and the Korean Bureaucracy” in Administrative Focus (2008), “Political economy of policy reform in Korea” (with Y.C. Chen) in Public Administration Quarterly (2000), “Implementation of science and technology policies for global competition; electronics and telecommunications industries” in Journal of International Development (1998), “Policy Regimes for International Waste Trade” (with L. Strohm) in Environmental Policy (1997), and “The private provision of capital for public housing development: A cost-benefit study of the Seoul housing project” in Public Administration and Development (1995). During the 1996-1997 academic year, he received a Fulbright award to conduct research at the Korea Institute of Public Administration in Seoul, Korea. In recognition of his distinguished service, particularly in advancing Indiana University’s international mission through strengthened ties with South Korea, Shin was awarded the IU Bicentennial Medal in 2021. He played key roles in organizing the first international IU alumni conference and reunion in Seoul in 2009, securing a $1.5 million endowment from the Korea Foundation for the Institute for Korean Studies, and facilitating the Jacobs School of Music Chamber Orchestra’s Asian debut in 2015. Additionally, he mentored numerous Korean graduate students, many of whom advanced to prominent positions in the Korean government and academia. The Roy W. Shin Fellowship in Environmental Science, established in 2002, honors his legacy by supporting doctoral students researching energy or environmental policy in Northeast Asia.