Credit: Se Hyun Kim

I am a Prize Fellow in Social Sciences and a Princeton Politics Ph.D. candidate specializing in race, religion, and international relations. In fall 2026, I will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. Afterwards, in 2027, I will start as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Temple University.

My work examines how racial and religious identities fundamentally alter public support for countries in conflict, revealing critical mechanisms through which identity-based biases shape foreign policy preferences and international solidarity. 

My research is both forthcoming and conditionally accepted at International Studies Quarterly and has received the Best Paper in Foreign Policy Award from the American Political Science Association.  Additional work has received revise and resubmits at the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and International Organization.

Drafts and other working papers are available on my Research page.

I have received generous support from the Honjo Foundation, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Data-Driven Social Science Initiative (DDSS), the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, and the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, among others.

I am deeply committed to active and engaged learning. I was honored with the George Kateb Teaching Award from Princeton Politics, and the Exemplar Mentor Award from Princeton University in 2024. I have organized pedagogy workshops for fellow graduate students and have been nominated twice for university-wide teaching awards.

I graduated summa cum laude with highest honors in political science from UC Berkeley, and am a proud alumnus of the Japan Exchange Teaching (JET) Program.