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Kim, Hannah June

Korea & East Asia Studies
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of California, Irvine

Courses taught:

Politics in East Asia

Korean Culture and Society

Designing Social Inquiry

Introduction to Contemporary Korea


Tel: +82-2-705-8952
E-mail: hannahkim@sogang.ac.kr

Profile

Hannah June Kim is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Sogang University and a political scientist specializing in comparative politics. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Before joining Sogang GSIS, she worked as an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and a postdoctoral scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. Her academic interests include public opinion, gender, and democracy in East Asia, and her research has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals and public-facing outlets, including the Journal of Politics, Pacific Affairs, and the Washington Post.

Education

- Ph.D in Political Science, University of California, Irvine, 2019

- M.A. in International Studies, Korea University, 2013

- B.A. in International Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2009

Courses Taught

- Politics in East Asia

- Korean Culture and Society  

- Designing Social Inquiry

- Introduction to Contemporary Korea

Academic & Professional Post Held

- Assistant Professor, GSIS Sogang University, 2023-present

- KEA Program Director, GSIS Sogang University, 2023-present

- CSIS-USC U.S.-Korea NextGen Scholar, 2022-2023

- Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Omaha, 2019-2023

- Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, 2019-2020

- Lecturer, Chapman University, 2019

- Lecturer, UC Irvine, 2017

- TA & RA, UC Irvine 2014-2019

Publications

- "Threats to the Liberal International Order: Democracy and the Youth in South Korea," Korea Policy, May 2023.  

- "Active Democracy: How Political Activists and Ordinary Citizens Support Democracy in Taiwan" with

Lev Nachman, in Globalization and Civil Society in East Asian Space, Routledge, December 2022.

- "The 2022 South Korean Presidential Elections and the Gender Divide among the Youth" with Chungjae Lee, Pacific Affairs, June 2022.

- "How Global Citizenries Think about Democracy: An Evaluation and Synthesis of Recent Public Opinion Research" with Doh Chull Shin, Japanese Journal of Political Science, June 2018. 

- "Liberal Democracy as the End of History: Western Theories versus Eastern Asian Realities" with Doh Chull Shin, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, June 2018. 

- "Stopping the Hate: Political Condemnations of Anti-Asian Rhetoric During the COVID-19 Crisis" with Maneesh Arora, Journal of Asian American Studies, October 2020.

- "The Gender Readings Gap in Political Science Graduate Training" with Heidi Hardt, Amy Erica Smith, and Philippe Meister, Journal of Politics, October 2019. 

- "Who Creates a Google Scholar Profile?" with Bernard Grofman, PS: Political Science and Politics, July 2020. 

- "Gender, Race, Age and National Origin Predict Whether Faculty Assign Female-Authored Readings in Graduate Courses" with Heidi Hardt, Amy Erica Smith, and Philippe Meister, PS: Political Science and Politics, January 2020.

- "Job Mobility, Tenure, and Promotions in Political Science Ph.D. Granting Departments, 2002-2017: Cohort, Gender and Citation Count Effects" with Bernard Grofman, PS: Political Science and Politics, October 2019. 

- "The Political Science 400: With Citation Counts by Cohort, Gender and Subfield" with Bernard Grofman, PS: Political Science and Politics, January 2019.

- "US Foreign Aid and Economic Policy Concessions" with Taehee Whang, Jungtaek Han, and Youngwan Kim, Policy Studies, January 2019. 

- "International Signaling and Economic Sanctions" with Taehee Whang, International Interactions, May 2015. 

- "The Role and Power of UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee" with Changrok Soh and Yooneui Kim, Korea Observer, March 2015. 

- "CSR in Korea: Lessons from American and British CSR Policies" with Changrok Soh and Taehee Whang, Journal of International and Area Studies, October 2014.