Welcome! I’m Gyuho (Shin Gyuho in Korean name order, Gyuho Shin in my publications). I am a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Stony Brook University.
My research lies at the intersection of political sociology and gender. I am broadly interested in how individuals’ perceptions of social inequality shape their political attitudes and behaviors, and how these attitudes become connected to political identities. Much of my work focuses on gender inequality, examining how gender-related attitudes become politically salient, how they are shaped by partisan attachments, and how conflicts over gender develop into broader political divisions.
The United States and South Korea provide two distinct contexts for exploring these questions. Both have vibrant (and sometimes dramatic) democratic politics, but their democratic histories are quite different. While the United States has a long-established democratic tradition, South Korea’s democracy is relatively young. In the United States, I examine how attitudes toward gender inequality have become increasingly aligned with party identification over time. In South Korea, I explore how political orientations are shaped by generational experiences rooted in the country’s compressed modernity and reshaped by contemporary political events. Studying these two contexts allows me to explore how gender becomes a source of political division under different historical and political conditions.
My dissertation, The Partisan Polarization of Sexism, examines why sexist attitudes persist in electoral politics, with particular attention to their increasing polarization along party lines in the United States. Using repeated cross-sectional and panel data from the American National Election Studies, I investigate how the relationship between sexist attitudes and party identification has changed over time and the extent to which each shapes the other.
Outside of research, I enjoy experimenting with different ingredients, flavor combinations, and cooking techniques to expand my personal recipe book. If you have a secret recipe you’re willing to share, I’d love to hear about it!