Eun A Jo

Assistant Professor

Office : Chancellors 238
Links : [[ejo, Email]]/ Website: www.eunajo.com
Office Hours: By appointment only; https://calendly.com/ejo-wm/30min; Zoom appts. available
Research Interests: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democracy and Autocracy, East Asia

Background

Professor Eun A (OON-a) Jo is an Assistant Professor in the Government Department and the Director of Asia Policy Lab. Dr. Jo's research focuses on the politics of national memory and their implications for international relations in East Asia. In her current book project, Storied States: How Narratives for Democracy Shape Conflict and Cooperation in Asia, she develops a paired historical comparison of postwar, postcolonial, and post-authoritarian narratives in South Korea and Taiwan. You can find her work in academic journals such as Comparative Political Studies and International Organization, as well as mainstream outlets such as Foreign Affairs. Her research has received the Nuno P. Monteiro Best Dissertation Award, Catherine McArdle Kelleher Best Article Award, and the Alexander L. George Best Article Award from the American Political Science Association, among others.

Dr. Jo received her PhD in Government from Cornell University (2024). She held an Edelson Fellowship in International Security at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College (2024-2025) and a Predoctoral Research Fellowship at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University (2022-2023). Prior to her doctoral studies, she obtained a BA in Law and Politics at University College Utrecht (2014) and an MPP at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University (2015).