The Fruits of Diversity and Globalization: Participation and Contributions of East-Asian Scholars in Public Administration

Figures & data

Figure 1. The number and percentage of East-Asian faculty members in the top 100 PA schools.

Table 1. Descriptive statistics of East-Asian full-time faculty and tenured East-Asian faculty (N = 100 schools)

	Mean	Median	Mode	Std. dev	Min	Max	Total number
Number of East-Asian faculty members	2.47	1.00	0.00	3.09	0.00	18.00	247
Percentage of East-Asian faculty members (%)	5.62	4.62	0.00	5.98	0.00	27.27
Number of tenured East-Asian faculty members	1.20	1.00	0.00	1.80	0.00	13.00	120
Share of East-Asians among tenured faculty (%)	5.47	2.20	0.00	8.21	0.00	40.00

Table 2. Comparison of East-Asian PhD graduates with other PhD graduates

	Total graduates		Tenure-track faculty		U.S. FT faculty		Average program duration (years)
	Number	Percentage %	Number	Percentage %	Number	Percentage %
Non-East-Asian graduates	93	69.9	42	45.2	47	50.5	5.7
East-Asian graduates	40	30.1	33	82.5	19	47.5	5.1

Figure 2. East-Asian scholars’ publications in top 10 PA journals.

Table 3. Journal editorial board and the share of East-Asian members

	JPAM	AAS	PAR	JPART	GOV	ARPA	ROPPA	PMR	PPMR	PA	Total
Editorial board size	59	43	112	75	47	81	67	58	78	61	681
East-Asian members	0	0	4	4	3	8	7	7	10	13	56
Percentage of East-Asians	0	0	3.57	5.33	6.38	9.88	10.45	12.07	12.82	21.31	8.22

Figure 3. East-Asian scholars’ presentations in academic conferences (2017–2020). ASPA 2020 conference was canceled due to COVID-19. Accepted manuscripts were presented at the 2021 conference. The 2020 ASPA number in this figure refers to the 2021 presentations.

Table 4. East-Asian awardees with academic associations (2017–2021)

APPAM EAS Awardees

Raymond Vernon Memorial Award: Lisa T. Quan (2020)

Fall Conference Poster Session Awards: David Woo (2017); Kirby A. Chow (2017)

APPAM & Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Award: Hyunjung Lee (2019)

JPAM Refereeing Awards: Eric Chan (2020)

PhD Dissertation Award: Y. Nina Gao (2018)

Equity & Inclusion Student Fellowship:

2017: Fang Li; Feng Bo.

2018: Brian Yeokwang An; Yali Pang; Naomi You; Qi Zhang; Ye Pogue Zhang.

2019: Yuhao Ba; Dongfang Gaozhao; Francis Hwang; Xia Li; Zhengyan Li; Youngwan Song; Tian Wang (2019)

ASPA East-Asian Awardees

Donald C. Stone Service to ASPA Award: Pan Suk Kim (2019); M. Jae Moon (2020)

Founders' Fellow: Hyesong Ha (2017); Suk Joon Hwang (2017); Yali Pang (2017); Trang Hoang (2018); Wen-Chi Shie (2018); Wendy Chen (2019); Donwe Choi (2019); Jie Tao (2019); Nara Yoon (2019); Huafang Li (2020); Byung Hee Min (2020); Yifei Yan (2020)

Walter M. Mode Scholarship Award: Hanjin Mao (2021)

Wallace O. Keene ASPA Conference Scholarships: Yousueng Han (2017); Danbee Lee (2019); Hanjin Mao (2021); Nhung Thi Hong Nguyen (2021)

NASPAA East-Asian Awardees

NASPAA Leslie A. Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award: Alfred Tat-Kei Ho (2018)

NASPAA Social Justice Curriculum Award: Angela Park (2018)

Pi Alpha Chapter Advisor Award of Excellence: Myung Jin (2017)

Staats Emerging Scholar Award: Trang Hoang (2018); Angela Park (2018)

NASPAA Annual Dissertation Award: Lang Yang (2017); Trang Hoang (2019); Seulki Lee (2020)

Pi Alpha Student Manuscript Award: Jinhai Yu (2017); Sunyoung Pyo (2019)

PMRA East-Asian Awardees

The Beryl Radin Award: Sounman Hong (2017)

The Best Dissertation Award: Huafang Li (2018); Miyeon Song (2019)

Note: The 2020 ASPA conference and the PMRA conference were canceled due to COVID-19, no awards were presented in 2020 in ASPA and PMRA.

Table 5. Representation of East-Asian scholars in associations’ leadership (2020).

Associations	Total leaders	East-Asian leaders	Percentage of East-Asian leaders
APPAM	26	0	0.00%
PMRA	17	0	0.00%
NASPAA	18	1	5.56%
ASPA	21	3	14.29%