I am an associate professor and director of the Korea and East Asia program in the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) at Sogang University. Previously, I was an assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. I received my PhD in political science at the University of California, Irvine.
My research focuses on public opinion, gender, and democracy in East Asia. I also research on social issues in South Korea and the US. My academic research has been published in Journal of Politics, Political Communication, and Pacific Affairs, and my commentaries have been in Brookings, East Asia Forum, and The Washington Post.