Student Profiles
Kent Boydston
MPIA '14
Career Track: International Politics
Regional Focus: Korea
Language: Korean
Robertson Fellow 2012-2013
Kent Boydston became fascinated by international relations in East Asia while studying at UC Irvine, where he completed his political science honors thesis on Chinese security concerns with ethnic Koreans in its northeast territories. After graduation he moved to South Korea, where he taught English at a rural elementary school and university and later studied Korean at Yonsei University in Seoul. He also taught English during the first semester of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology in the DPRK. He is particularly interested in working on development issues in North Korea.
Kent returned to the U.S. and supported the citizen diplomacy efforts of the U.S. State Department as an intern with the National Council for International Visitors in Washington, D.C. He hopes to use the skills acquired at IR/PS to launch a career representing the U.S. government on foreign policy and global development issues.
